• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    Why do I associate TLC with, like, Trading Spaces and other domestic not-quite-a-game shows like that? Am I conflating it with something else? Also I haven’t had “television” in decades now.

    • VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online
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      5 hours ago

      It used to be PBS for adults. I remember turning it on and there would be a documentary about like piano players and the connection to the brain.

      Went down hill thanks to reality TV.

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      16 hours ago

      Because that’s the slop it turned into. It was a place for documentaries and educational content, just like MTV used to have music. But watching Kate torment her brood of children or Honey BooBoo eat sketti makes the kind of money airing a college lecture doesn’t.

      • fishy@lemmy.today
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        This kind of content taking off and the popularity of the Kardashians were the proverbial canary in the coal mine for the intellectual apocalypse we’re dealing with now. We are what we eat, and what you watch absolutely influences how you think and act.