Normal people don't watch television anymore
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It moved to Australia.
British man finds croft attractive what els is new
@@roxaskinghearts Dutch man here. Croft is heaven.
@@KeimpeJ American here shes meh easily a 7 im totally a 4 not fat but i guess i have a creepy face because of rosacea i thought i look fine every woman runs for the hills
@@roxaskinghearts So how do you compare yourself to a fictional character? Googles Roxaskingshearts.... nevermind.
At my workplace in the break room all the old people turn the tv on when they come in, turn it up loud enough to wake the dead, commericals are on, by the time their break is over commericals are still on. Id prefer silence over another mesothelioma ad.
God, I feel this
My grandparents watch TV, their antenna broke recently and the 1 guy in the area who still does it is a solo gig and wouldn't get to it for about 3 weeks. The other nearest guy was about 4 hours away and was run by another old guy.
TV is a dying breed and I'm here for it.
Do you or your loved one have mesothelioma?
Think I stopped in my last apartment 10 years ago with an very large sofa. So the the adds came I killed the sound and fell asleep with my cat.
Then i moved, miss the cat.
Tell me you're an American with out telling me you're American 🤣🤣
i haven't watched tv for over 10 years
PFFFT, that's rookie numbers, im going well over 20 years without watching tv.
Same, there's not really anything worth watching to begin with.
@@josejuanandrade4439 same here .
And you wonder why you are telling your therapist you feel like you don’t get along with anyone and it’s hard to meet a girl because you can never find anything to talk about
@@josejuanandrade4439you want a cookie? Pretty normal. I assume Americans are stuck to the TV?
When the TV accidentally gets muted sometimes, my dad will just keep watching and assume it's the broadcast. Can't be helped. Time to watch muted TV for an hour and randomly flip through channels in confusion.
Once he was watching football and the TV itself had a little buggy moment. Half the screen was suddenly covered in a green block. I ask him if he needs me to fix it, he replied "fix what?" and I just looked back and forth for a moment, restarted the TV and left. You know, if I was watching football and half of it was just missing, I think I'd notice, but maybe when I'm that age I'll just be checked out too.
nah bro i think people just don't care anymore, to them it's just white noise but in tv bs, we have a tv that hasn't been turned on in ages, only people who use it are my nieces and nephews when they wanna watch brainrot on UA-cam, my dad is glued to his phone 24/7 watching propaganda on yt too, mom watches whatever pops up on her home page, i genuinely don't think a single tv channel would work if i tried turning anything on rn
@@MeanPeePeeYou're here, watching Second Monitor Hayes, and you're calling OTHERS out for mindlessly clicking things? Perspective my friend.
@@chaosgyro I'm not calling anybody out I'm just making an observation, as you said I'm doing the same thing, but you know what nobody's doing?? watching tv channels
@@MeanPeePee "brainrot", "propaganda", "whatever pops up"
Those are clearly negative value judgments bud.
@@chaosgyro no these are factual statements, brain rot is all the shorts that have no meaning no purpose it's just someone cutting soap while playing gta or whatever that is designed to destroy children's attention span and enforce addictive bad habits that can be extremely difficult to get rid of, propaganda is those videos constantly talking about the potential war that's "incoming any time now" and how the other side is bad and evil and every single person who lives in the other country is literally satan ..., and whatever pops up is basically what it is, she opens youtube and clicks on the first video then goes to the second then the third and she keeps going until she has to do something, everything that I've said was completely factual and observatory, idk where did you get the negative connotation from, the first 2 are objectively negative no matter how you try to look at it and the last one is not negative at all, so idk what are you trying to cook here
My Grandad was big on "teasing" humor, but as he got older he used stop giving a fuck and doing to anybody, not just those close to him and the problem then came that because he was losing his mind in his old age, he'd usually say the first part of the joke and then not finish it, and so what would end up happening; he'd say the most wildly offensive and personal insult imaginable to someone and then turn to look at me with the biggest grin on his face like he just told the funniest joke ever and then go back to resting grumpy face, and so everyone just assumed he wasn't even joking and he was just being a nasty grumpy old man. Pretty fucking hilarious tbh
His humor evolved
When my dad, aged 75, first got a smartphone he insisted I turn on the 'weather bits' but set them to the town his brother lives in, so that every time he calls him he can say "I see it's raining/sunny in your place". When I asked him why he always does that, he said: "I need to show that child (uncle is 72) who the older brother is!"
Hahaha still asserting dominance as the older bro after all those years
As a big sister, I completely agree.
How exactly does knowing the weather in his brother's town show "dominance"?
@@bluesrocker91 His younger brother still doesn't have a smartphone.
In ST:TNG S01E26 Data says that TV disappeared as an entertainment form in the 2040's.
We still have a few months to get the unification of Ireland
Looking at it now that seems about accurate.
When I first watched that episode, the notion seemed absurd. Then streaming and UA-cam got big, and now it seems almost inevitable.
Traditional TV channels simply can't compete.
The Bell riots are today, let's go oooo!
I wonder what will replace what we're currently watching...
Finally we can all admit boomers aren't normal.
The thing I HATE about TV nowadays the most? The loss of awkward local ads. Mattress stores, car dealerships ... there was something weird and a little uncanny and very beautiful about them. Nowadays the only ads for local services are lawyers...
There’re still local ads on public-access tv stations. Tune into your local channel 2 or channel 7 and you’ll still see ads for local businesses.
The only time I watch any is when a anime movie hits free TV. I can bear through the ads. But normally, no. I don't watch TV anymore. Not even Netflix and stuff. I rather open up another video essay on Dark Souls.
Cultured and based
Bruh same. I’d rather listen to Elden Ring lore as background noise than whatever slop streaming services come out with.
With how many other ways there are to consume anime idk of it even counts. Its the only thing i watch as well. Id rather sit in silence than be blasted by slop ads
Why not just pirate the movie? It's also free but no ads etc
I paid for nintendo power once and my parents cancled it because we couldent afford it, but for some reason they just kept sending them, so i got every single nintendo power magazine all the way till the last issue. Loved reading through them.
I feel that. I'll come visit my parents from time to time and they'll be channel surfing, waiting through the commercials, all the usual stuff and I'll just think, "Oh, you guys still do that?" I grew up in the 90s and yet nowadays for me, seeing a TV commercial feels like seeing a games stored on a floppy disk. I'll just be like, "Oh, so that's what's on TV commercials now."
I set a VPN to Japan for youtube just for the ads
nice!
South Korea's ads are pretty out there as well, if you need a change.
Well that's an idea, thank you for the idea
I don't use VPN and am from Italy but I keep getting Polish and Japanese ads
I think I'm going to do this one day.
My parents pay over $300 a month for cable. Unbelievable.
15+ years of no tv.
still not thinking going back.
I feel normal again. Thanks Josh.
TV at this point is background noise or ambience, my mom has the TV on something like the news or weather with low volume while she is watching some series in her tablet on Netflix. I personally haven't watched tv in like 10 years, seriously very few people watch tv anymore unless its a very specific event like the olympics or something of the sort.
Live sport is the only part who is relevant I say
As much as I hate UA-cam adverts, the few times I watch TV gives me an appreciation for their comparative brevity and skipability.
I hope my grandson looks at me like this one day, when I'm just an old guy, sitting home all day, playing Crusader Kings on my old PC.
Joshs grandad vibing a 2nd monitor without a 1st monitor, alpha af
Can confirm. I am old. I now occasionally watch the news...on TV.
I only watch sports and some local news. I find local news next to impossible to get otherwise.
News is the last thing you should be watching on TV but ok
@@mojebi3804 Why?
@@mojebi3804 - Because they don't subscribe to your conspiracy of the day?
@ColdRunnerGWN which conspiracy would that be?
Bless your grandpa Josh. I dont have any grandparents left but I gotta say, grandpas are always the pranksters. At least in my experience. Cherish him while he is around. I know I miss both of mine.
My mom is 70 and I was able to set her up on UA-cam on her TV now she got a wireless keyboard/mouse on her coffee table to make it easier. I'm proud of her!
legitimately, i think for some it's that it makes the house feel like theres *something* going on, even when its muted.
I travel for work and the breakfast lobby almost always has Fox News on and it has to be at least 50% ads. My favorite line up was an ad for some prepper food kit, followed by something to call the EMTs if you fall down, then into an ad for buying gold, ended with an ad for selling gold, and then back to the repeating advert for the end of democracy.
Cool stuff on TV, I'm glad I can filter that all out at home.
Wait, isn't half of this just Fox News in between the ad breaks, anyway?
He's absolutely right about the ads; Dad's watching science channel or something, I'll be making something in the kitchen and I'll hear the same commercial three times in ten minutes.
HDMI cable into a laptop or PC has been my go too since 2009
Man i dont know why but Lara Croft got my attention in those magazines too. For some reason i remember one magazone ad that said "Yeah she'll take you out....from 10 miles away" and it just stuck with me
TV is to old people what second monitor content is to the younger generations.
I'm 60 years old (one of those old folks you mentioned) and I don't watch TV either unless there's a ballgame I want to see and I can't stream it on my PC. I got sick and tired of every single advertisement, TV program or movie portraying men as loser idiots that can't do anything right. I can go to UA-cam and watch exactly what I want to watch and ignore the channels trying to push a narrative I don't agree with.
Reminds me of my dad. He made the switch from TV to streaming, but he still just uses it as TV. I don't think I've ever seen him use the pause button, he just turns the volume down if he wants to talk
Every time I turn on the TV it's just reruns from shows I used to watch a decade ago. It's not even the best ones. 😢
I built a mid-range gaming PC for my retired mother a few years ago, as something she could do besides playing candy crush and watching TV. First game I set up for her was 2016's DOOM (which was a bit too gruesome for her at first), just as an 'easy' way to get used to a game-pad controls. She struggled for a couple of days, but once it clicked for her, she played through DOOM like 5 times in a row! She now games more than I do, some days she's up past midnight playing the latest thing. She's racked up over 500 hours in Skyrim XD.
She also watches a lot more 'enriching' content with streaming, and is always using the computer to find and write up recipes to experiment with.
A PC was probably the most positive change in her life since she stopped working.
Finally, it's happening. I quit TV in '98, when i got internet, and stopped using radio at the beginning of the 90's. Two of the best decisions of my life.
"It's old people and your parents."
My parents are old people though. But yea I haven't deliberately sat down to watch TV in almost 15 years now.
The golden era of shows and production ended when streaming and "digital" became a thing. Corporation force slop and take away ownership, so who cares now? I have 1000s of dollars of movies sitting in a massive wood case in my house. Literal weeks upon months of GOOD movies, series, anime, and shows. F all the industry for making it impossible to achieve that these days. Instead of buying to consume and enjoy it forever, they want us to be reoccuring revenue . . . EVERY MONTH as if they're the gift from god. I only bought the good movies that I saw in theatres or got recommended, but these days its nada . . . 0
I say start of steaming was the golden age for some reason, then every idiot wanted their own streaming service while going woke.
Result is very predictable,
Obviously linear tv would fail anyway.
And it wont become popular ever again. Sure it has its peaks if youre zapping through the channels and find something interesting you actually would have never watched on purpose, but like the example here: you wont start watching a series in the middle. You start at episode 1 on netflix and co and netflix exactly says where you stopped when you went for a toilette break or had to do something else.
My prognosis: when all people born in the 70s or older die, TV will die too. People from the 80s naturally grew up with PC and phone tech in their teens and we dont even have to talk about 90s people. I dunno if a new generation will come back to TV as it is now, but right now I would bet it dies in 30 years for good. I dont see it surviving. Same with newspaper etc.
It’s kind of crazy that you pay hundreds of dollars for cable TV and *still* have to suffer through 5 minutes of ads every 20-30 minutes.
I haven't watched TV for like 15 years. Maybe more.
And it's been wonderful.
Josh: Need Tomb Raider can’t tell Parents
Dad: lol, he thinks I didn’t know.
Your grandpa's reaction to your commenting on him watching Star Trek is very relatable. My grandma's TV is on 24/7. She never turns it off. She wakes up to it and falls asleep to it. She absorbs the content by some form of osmosis. She doesn't actually sit down to watch a movie in its entirety. She instead happens to watch any 15-minute stretch of a movie or program in between chores or naps. Even though she is over 80 now, I can still have a perfectly logical and congruent conversation with her on a number of topics. But when her attention is on the TV, I don't think there's any brain function going on in there at all.
People who sleep in VR act like that ngl
TV has been proven to put you in a more suggestible state
Haven’t had TV since 2014. UA-cam Netflix and prime. No ads no BS. Don’t have to watch anything I don’t want to see. I don’t even understand how cable companies still exist.
The entire Halo 3 marketing campaign was nothing short of iconic.
I am 31. I have at no point actually paid for anything more than internet
Bro don't lie we know you pay for electricity at the least
Pssst, you might check on that :P
And no phone?
I am so very glad that the absolute classic that is Future Cop: LAPD is acknowledged by Josh. What a game that is.
You may be interested to hear he did a retrospective review of it on his Josh Strife Plays channel.
I have a 7 year old son in our house the TV is always on but nobody is watching it, until I decide to turn it off...
1:18 true old people and old-school parents😅
Had some PS-UK magazines too, with the demo discs. Best ones were GTA1 demo which had a whole city, and MGS which I was super hyped for. Also some weird but cool Net Yaroze stuff.
The quality if the shows are terrible too. Like the visual HD quality. My oarents have a Sky subscription, with all the HD add-ons, the toppest of top HD subs. And the quality is terrible. How can a single person playing Minecraft manage to output higher definition videos than the entire BSkyB and BBC combined?
I grew up without tv and I’d rather spend my time reading. Gaming or real life pursuits just don’t have time for crap
I haven’t watched tv in years I have a pc and watch Netflix day time tv has like 2minutes of show and 10 to 15 minutes of adds it drives me mad
Man who makes 2nd monitor content has grandad who uses TV as second monitor content for life. It was destiny.
I do this since around 2006 or smth. Just give me an internet connection and I'm fine.
The only people I hear of using TVs still are legitimately in their 60's or 70's
Someone should start a TV series called subway surfers.
My Gramps wrote down everything an ad told him to ask a doctor about for a few months. He took the list to his doctor and said the TV told me to ask you about these.
I remember a Sam Hyde bit on boomers and TV. They're so addicted to television, it doesn't matter what's on. Even if they went deaf and blind they'd still turn it on and hold their faces to the screen. To feel the warm electron glow
IT will be the same for this gen blind but still holding phone to face
Yup. The only people watching tv in my extended family are my grandpa & his wife lol
I cancelled my TV licence about three years ago.
With UA-cam, streaming services and interactive entertainments like video games and twitch theirs no need for it.
I only watch TV once a year for ESC (Eurovision Song Contest).
But honestly, even for that I sometimes pick some streams instead because some of the TV commentators are inane.
When i was like 15 i said to everyone, "why have a TV when its built worse than a monitor, costs more, has nothing you want and you are just going to plug your own stuff into it anyway"
TVs aren't worse than monitors. I don't know how old you are but if you were 15 more than 10 years ago most monitors were TN panels
TVs are vastly better than monitors at the same price point. Reason being that there's a lot of advertising subsidization happening, and there tend to be less models and more economies of scale. Also the same reason why all televisions are smart TVs now, and there don't exist any that are just displaying inputs with no apps.
In theory there are some trade offs, such as TVs being limited to 120hz (because there's not much video content even exceeding 60hz, much less 120,) where as monitors can go up to ridiculous numbers, but for the VAST VAST VAST majority of people, there is no perceivable difference, and few computers can really sustain content above 120hz and still look their best.
TVs don't usually have Display Port, which could matter to some people.
Why have a monitor when a TV is cheaper and can do everything a monitor can, plus more?
@@Meton2526 I see where you are coming from, i have not payed attention to TVs since 2018? and the local argos says you can get a 40" TV for £230, I do see that when it comes to a 40" TV vs a 40" monitor its about £500
What im seeing though, i dont feel that you can get a "bad" TV today picture quality wise, but an incompatible one is likely, often you cant just plug a PC in via HDMI and expect it to work (many have scaling issues and some cant be remedied) and often all the marketing crap does not tell you enough about the internal specifications, and sure, i get it, thats mostly a me problem, the majority of people would expect their computer to work if they plugged it into a TV, and its often a mixed bag, and then there is this unrealistic smoothing assistance things to emulate a higher picture frequency, where the panel is actually 60Hz, (in few cases 50hz even to this day) that sure, many people would not care until they find out.
But saying that, I feel most people go out their way to buy a TV for a reason these days spending more money on one, from £500 unless there are visible deals, be it for the PS5, blu rays, or their favorite media box of choice, and for that people want to know it ticks all the simple boxes, when it comes to TVs people are looking for the latest OLED and biggest HDR number for now, because its the new thing to them.
@@drunksupportcharacter "often you cant just plug a PC in via HDMI and expect it to work "
Yeah you can. Sure there were problems a decade ago, but I know for at least Windows and Linux, it's a non-issue. Sure you may have to tweak the UI scaling to work right for your viewing distance, but that's no different from a monitor. It's literally just make sure your GPU drivers are up to date, and plug it in via HDMI.
@Meton2526 yep. I have a 50 inch 4k TV I use for my gaming PC. Barely have to fiddle with options at all. It cost £320
Boomers do and thats it really.
Not a popular take but I can't wait to be old and no one expects anything from me anymore.
Except your money from unpaid debts :/
To be fair on the weather thing, It SAYS it's raining, or there's a thunderstorm in my area, but it's bone dry outside. I'm to blame on that one though. I'm a magnet for storms. Unfortunately, we aren't opposite poles. You can literally look at the weather map and see the storm split around me, leaving a giant hole a few kilometres wide around where I live, before reforming on the other side of its path. Most of the time if I want to experience a storm I have to go drive half an hour to get under the clouds.
But yeah, I have two TVs, they're used as computer monitors. No cable, no satellite, what is an antenna, just 100% PC output for games and some youtube.
Weather's also a lot weirder than we like to admit. If I got a quarter for every day I've heard thunder while it was sunny as jolly out, I'd have enough for a nice meal out no questions asked.
i have the same issue, and i love thunderstorms :(
I don't watch tv often anymore but when I do, it's usually things like MASH, Andy Grifith show, Hogans Heroes, The Rifleman, and a little bit of Star Trek.
Visited mom recently, she had a big ol TV just playing cable programming. It was crazy how frequent commercials were and basically all of them had black people shoved into them for some reason.
TV is shit
My grandparents also turned on the tv muted without watching it.
lol ummm since iv been DL movies/series back in the good old IRC days i actually havent watched tv and owned a tv for about 20 years
I watch shows but I don't watch TV. Last TV I watched was 9-1-1 on ABC and 9-1-1: Lone Star on Fox but I just canceled Hulu w/ Live TV after the price hikes.
PC Zone had a bit about the upcoming TIE Fighter... It was the first I heard of the game. SO damn hyped.
Also the magazine EDGE had Mirror's Edge on the front cover... Damn nice looking game.
I’m sorry, but Netflix is filled with TV shows and movies. Netflix is TV. TV is not just cable, TV is shows and movies that you plug into a screen, most often the big screen in your house. All cable is TV but not all TV is cable.
I still watch TV (I even have a TV tuner connected to my PC) but Australia’s free-to-air offering is pretty robust to the point cable is barely even better unless you’re a diehard sports fan who needs to see every game.
Almost a decade ago I read an article that in various countries across Europe...30% of people didn't even have a tv in their house anymore.
I'm one of them. replaced it with a small indoor waterfall. much nicer to look and entertaining to look at :D
I'm 40. and my parents also rarely watch tv anymore with the increasing amount of propaganda and lack of quality programs. so if they use it... it is often to watch old Star Trek episodes since they own the dvd collections.
Armed forces tv cured me of the tv habit.
Yeah. It does a good job of that.
At least King and Country was soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent
My family has opted for just having like 3-5 subscription services.(Netflix-Disney+. etc.) we haven't had television for a few years at this point.
Nothing like hearing boomer work colleagues have the exact same conversation about I'm A Celebrity/Strictly/Britain's Got Talent like clock work every 6 months.
There is nothing worth watching. It’s all awful nonsense.
Nothing is made for people like me so why should I watch anything that would just annoy me?
I watch old comedy and sitcoms. They were well written and produced.
I (36) dont watch telly but my mother (67f) and brother (45) do, naff like Strictly and The Masked Singer. I once walked in on them watching Masked Singer and on the screen was someone in a giant suit of the Eiffel Tower singing and dancing to defying gravity and I literally thought I was having a psychedelic episode. I just can't with this generation.
My wife and I still watch TV, though not the normal stuff -- I like the mysterious and historical, she loves medical programmes, the more gory the better, and horrific murder cases. We did go through a period of doing games -- it ended when neither of us could complete the first Lara Croft game, we kept drowning her, and then I bought her an expensive game where she could drive a bus around New York. It started with the bus driver approaching his bus, but neither of us could get him to get on it! Sold it back to the shop at a considerable loss...
Anime is televised mostly for kids and teens in Japan
But Josh is moreso underestimating the 18-30 year old viewership power of TV Dramas in Asia, SEA, Latin America and Turkiye. The mostly women fans are RAVENOUS for serialized TV
UA-cam, Video Games and WWE are my main forms of entertainment. I pay for Netflix and Prime every month. Never use it. My sister and her kid do, I guess they're the weird ones in the house.
All due respect. If it's "TV", it's UA-cam instead.
If anything, my 'standard' television time is spent browsing on text-based forums, over "oh, another Star Trek show."
Technically everyone watches television... You couldn't see a single digital device without it as that's just the conceptual name of the screen in front of you and it's origin...
But as for cable and satellite It's pointless. Humans are all limited to many things. Having a cable company or satellite company offer you a million channels means nothing. You can only watch one channel at a time. Movies average an hour and half of your time without commercials. Television shows average 22 minutes without commercials. There's a finite amount of things you can watch through your day, while sticking to your priorities and work etc... You don't need an enormous amount of channels that you'll never watch. You only need the things you do want to watch. And those oftentimes are limited to a select few things. Streaming has proven that concept. Many people would rather watch a single individual for 6-8 hours straight than to watch 6-8 different episodes of tv shows a day...
My internet provider had a good deal on how much it cost for 5G, but the package also included a pre paid tv subscription. I asked if I could get it cheaper if I did not want the tv subscription? No that was actually more expensive :p So now I've had a opened case with the TV/Streaming box sitting beside the tv for about a year....
I mean yeah, why would you? You can watch TV shows online, for free and without ads. Plus you can skip to yhe next episode without having to wait.
TV will become like radio, somewhat used but no longer the primary source of entertainment/information.
TV feels almost weird these days. You don't get to choose what's on, you have no influence over the ads (I'm not 99 chainsmoking cigarettes, lay off) and the media is in a very... stuffy almost... format these days. Even the old guys who've converted to UA-cam have adapted. But CNN/FoxNews haven't. It's still that old format.
Sometimes you can see something described as cool... sometimes.
Sold my last TV 4 years ago... also, i used it for 8 or 9 years exclusively to play console videogames lol, maybe enjoy one of my dvd/blu ray disc collection... man, those thing are sitting there, collecting dust, cause I've got no TV anymore!!!
Absolutely wrong, and this is a gross misconception. There are shows on Tv for all sorts of demographics on Tv, from young to old.
It'd rather have and makes more sense to me, to watch 'normal' Tv, than shell out actual money and pay for various different program providers every month.
I (22) watch TV everyday. Where else do you even get the news ? My friends don't watch TV and have no idea what's happening in the world or in our country.
Yeeah news channels are online too now but you're not really compelled to look it up.
Streaming's good, but unless you 're subscribed to everything, you won't get much. I watch movies and shows on TV just because they're on. Stuff that i wouldn't have picked otherwise but that's actually good.
I just look them up online when i am at work.
Yes but if the news comes on, I change the channel. Likely they would do it too. So it doesnt matter if you have tv or not, if you dont want the news, you are not getting it either way.
@@TwoWayOrbitalStation i meant to say that TV gives you limited options. Sure, you might actively want to change the channel. But when you pick up your phone, you're most likely want to spend your time doing something else with it than watching the news. Even if you're mildly interested in the news.
The news is propaganda, half truths, deception.
I don’t remember when but last broadcast TV I saw was Smack Down when Edge was still a world heavy weight champion.
Old people, parents, and unfortunately wrestling fans. For some god damn reason wrestling hasn’t moved over to streaming but thankfully we’re making progress with raw going to Netflix
Your grandad sounds like a good time. XD
But yeah--I don't watch any TV unless I'm stuck on my laptop in the living room but Mom will have three on as background noise, mostly tuned to the news. The show we're watching currently? X-Files, first aired in the early nineties. But at least once a week she'll flip through channels, complain about how there's nothing on, and I'll tell her "you see how much TV *I* watch."
Tbh I, a millennial (1996), have started to watch tv again recently, vut mostly for the news or traffic cops and really its just for background sound.
I would say I do use UA-cam more for watching ACTUAL things I like amd enjoy. My partners grandparents are very much into the "TV on and just watch the next show that appears even if you don't like it" mentality though. If anything we don't mind the ads as we like to make fun of the most silly ones. But whenever we go to visit her grandparents we just kinda get absorbed into it as well.
Sometimes it's actually refreshing to watch something you'd never think of watching on the TV as it broadens ypur viewing habits.
The only reason I even have a TV nowadays is to play console games or sometimes cast a movie I'm watching from my laptop on weekends. That's it. Most if not everything on mainstream TV is utter garbage nowadays (And Wokeness doesn't help) and all the good quality stuff was from the 2000s and before that.
Even for things like news and weather I don't need TV for anymore. I can just... look it up. It's all PC nowadays and the Boomers are coping and in denial that they got left in the dust.
I haven’t watched TV since like 2004. I torrent everything, dont even have a Netflix
When I moved to my own in 2004 I ditched my TV. I haven't owned a TV ever since. I'm still pissed since in Finland you used have to pay TV license if you owned a TV and I was fine with it since I didn't own it. Well they changed it so everybody has to pay no matter what and cannot just not pay since it's included in taxes. Now I'm paying TV license without owning a TV.
I have a TV, but it only gets used for and youtube. There's an AV connection (i think?) behind it that probably connects to something attached to the outside of the house, maybe. I wouldnt know lol.
we've got a 24/7 spongebob channel. occasionally watch that for a few episodes.
Thanks for making me laugh inappropriately loud at work on my lunch break. "It's old people and your parents", spot on Josh, spot on.