Internet is the new MTV

Disclaimer: This is all theory type ish btw.

I realize something. Just as I used to prettymuch live my life on cable tv channels like mtv, awaiting my favorite music video to come on, try my best to get through that douche bag boy band shit, and fall in love with chritina aguafabla before and definitely after she became a slutty bimbo, that's prettymuch what the internet is to me now.

MTV was THE place to find the pulse of popular culture in the 90s... As a kid around 12 and 13, all the real atmosphere of the time that I can remember revolved around whatever popular videos were on. Thong song, lauren hill, michael jackson still kickin it back then, then of course it became more about boy and girl bands. All that same shit has shifted now online. All the gossip about stuff, who's wearing what, videos, and music all available online, and of course the interactivity too which trl kind of pioneered with its call in to a live broadcast. Internet's one big TRL now for whatever that's worth...

This is interesting because MTV used to be a huge phenomenon. YTMND for instance sort of captured that same level of popularity, and that part of my brain that is very forward thinking, believes it could probably take its place only on an internet front. But just as mtv got too big for itself and turned into another over corporatized shell of its former rebellious roots, the internet's going down that same path...

That's going to be the test, whether the net can continue to be a free for all, anything goes kind of place vs a sleak corporate machine where the thought police try to quiet dissenting views like every corporation does... i feel it's unfortunately leaning too far into 1984 territory. Thank God for that book, if it does nothing else, it reminds us of why we need a free society, because if you don't fight for your freedom, someone will very gladly take it away from you.