How MTV Destroyed Their Network (They Gave Up On Music)

Everybody loves music. But far from everyone is interested music.

The 80's were the best! Some of the 90's were ok. I did like Remote Control. After that I only watched the awards shows.

If you were alive and still remember 1999-2001 … those ads were INSANE! I was about 8 by this time, and MTV was my favorite late night channel for the music. By 2002, there weren’t many music videos being played late at night anymore, and if they did the ads were after every 2 videos.

MTV got more worse, as music got more worse!

I summon my fellow 412 ❤

I don’t know if anyone commented about this already but am I the only one who noticed that when it was the mtv schedule graph of 2008-2016 the graph showed 105%

Imagine calling a show that ran for over a decade by the wrong name & not fixing it in post-editing 😂
America's 'best' Home Videos. Not 'funniest', 'Best'.. like he didn't grow up watching it... WOW.

1981 - Video Killed The Radio Star
2011 - Internet Killed The MTV Star

Is it really MTV's problem? It seems the rise and fall follows the US cultural and economic relevance.
I mean, they reached all-time low in 2016.

i hated the TRL era

TRL was lame AF

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Yooo I swear u are Edward Norton tryna trick us Patrick 😅😅😅

People who got to be teenagers in the 50s,60s,70s or 80s had the best lives. Not only did they get to live without cell phones and social media but they got to live during a time when making money was easy. 80% of Americans today earn less than 5k a month. The average middle class to lower middle class house costs 250-400k. That means 80% of Americans will never earn enough money to buy a home. White women taking 50% of all the jobs that pay over 70k a year and only marrying men who make more than they do is the reason why the middle class in America is disappearing. Women don't talk about wanting 50% of the jobs that earn 35k a year which is the average salary for a person with a college degree. Chinamen are also to blame for buying houses in the US and then renting those houses to Americans for thousands of dollars a month while never setting foot in the United States. The housing market needs to decrease by 70% and thats the true value of every home. 100% of houses in the US are way overpriced and nothing will get better until the prices drastically drop. It will help 95% of Americans. Only people and businesses who own hundreds or thousands of properties will lose money, but who cares about them. They have been getting rich at the expense of everyone else forever. When a 500k home drops to 150-200k all of a sudden people can buy a nice house to live in. Being able to buy a decent home for 100k is exactly what the US needs.

I lay some blame for America's social decline on MTV's shoulders. Like the frog in the boiling pot, MTV steadily devolved into social decay. They belong in the Hall of Shame.

They should have never abandoned music videos; the music business has suffered HORRIBLY since.

MTV was the sheet back in its hay day for it's music videos. I got hook on Real World and Road Rules too. Then of course the music slowly faded away.

No it was the evil government that destroyed music. They are currently destroying me and the world itself.

This was really well made Patrick. Just discovered you. Keep up the good work dude.

It is interesting that you find the best MTV was when they had all those shows and not music. Well, you belong to a younger generation. I remember MTV for the time in the 80s and early 90s when it was just music. Well, I am older than you. Way older...

Beavis and Buttheads never gone but still resurgent appeal and popularity should show them where they went wrong. Never give up on Real, it will always beat crap.

I went to the website there was NOTING there Patrick... even tho this was 1yr ago

41. I remember liquid… damn

We won't see MTV shows on paramount because it's behind a paywall? Cable is literally a pay wall.. the most expensive one at that. They're better off with paramount

Gotta say, I really didn't miss anything when I stopped watching in 1993.

MTV was great, with music videos and B&B. Then they turned to reality crap.

Well i suppose the only thing that can save it is bring back downtown

Watching that i have to say that MTV Europe was quite a different beast in the late '80s and 90's. Music (almost all kinds), great live shows (MTV Most Wanted), a lot of good cinema, art, fashion even Formula 1. That was class. 👍

It’s the competition for young peoples attention it became real w the dawn of multi media online

If you didn't remember or weren't alive for TRL, you missed out

How can you forget pop up video? That was the best thing they ever did. When they dropped music, I tuned out.

MTV get off the air!

The reason me and my friends stopped watching MTV was primarily due to MTV playing almost only rap videos, so we started watching mtv2 to see videos of bands we liked, THEN mtv2 started playing almost only rap videos, THEN we started watching MTVX to see videos of bands we like and I'll be damned if MTVX started playing only rap videos. They had 3 channels playing the same videos.

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My ad had an ad.

They brought back various music blocks on MTV Germany such as Headbangers Ball, Alternative Nation or Party Zone. Idk if it got more people to watch the channel again but I watch every week Party Zone and Chill Out Zone from 1am to 5am on fridays, it has lots of obscure and interesting stuff that keeps me awake.

also in the last shade of MTV 2000S REMEMBER ALL THE ANIME AND TOONS AND SMALLVILLE

Beavis and Butthead aren't stoners, dude.

As someone born in 1990 who grew up with so much of this culture it's a little heartbreaking. I was the first generation born in the US and I went to MTV to bathe in the music and pop culture from my time and before. And I personally loved MTV2, especially when they played blocks dedicated to a specific artist. It was a way to see old or underground stuff from the artist before they were discovered. They really fucked up on their 40th anniversary though. Like have some dignity dude lol

I'm 39 now and i remember skating home as fast as i could to watch TRL in my early teen years.
I still remember my older cousins watching the real world , i had yo be around7 or eight years old.

Sadly MTV is garbage now and the producers and creators show who they serve, blatant satanic crap everywhere.

Beavis and butthead were not stoners

"Stay hydrated" should definitely be how you always say to drink water. It's absolutely perfect.

Your the man pat the man you should do one of these on horror movies