M.T.V Off the air...what now?

To begin, I'd like to point out this comment that I found under a video of one of the members of Dead Kennedys getting the vaccine in 2020. It highlights how things change over time, and shows how messages can be outdated, and even things like punk can create this form of 'conservatism,' adhering to old songs like prophecy. A well-written comment sandwiched between people calling the man a sellout or a government plant.

Now on to our main subject, M.T.V. Get Off the Air, points out this sorta saturation of the rock and music videos. How MTV is stopping creativity, wanting us to spend our days at home watching their slop and not even think. "Fun fun, fun in the fluffy chair, flame up the herb, wolf down the beer."What's so interesting to me is that I can resonate with the meaning of the song even in the god forsaken year of 2025. MTV, and yet, it seems bigger forces are trying to buy our attention more than ever. Instagram reels, TikTok, and YouTube shorts feed us this image of 'connection' and 'entertainment.' And for GOOD GOD!! Thank the absolute amazing content creators out there making quality content that makes this image seem even a cent more true (kamikazeshortbus, for example! ^_^). But the reality of it all is that none of those platforms give a damn about how quality the thousands of videos we scroll through are. As long as you're glued to your screen, feeding their algorithm and spending a millisecond looking at the shameless ad to put some money, a few cents in a fat wallet.

 In turn, you become addicted, you spend each moment and every instance looking at your phone, wasting minutes or hours! Quick content, quick laughs, no pause, no thinking. The only thing you're doing is flicking your finger across the digital screen. As the sun begins to fall you can't remember anything you looked at, out of the videos that seemed to have meaning in the short moment you viewed them, only a few of them stuck out, only a few of them become memory.