I don’t see the point of television these days, especially if you have easy access to internet. I have almost no clue of what’s happening in the world except the big global stuff, nevermind my country. We’re getting poorer, less jobs, yadayada… I bet that’s what’s going on in the news.
And I don’t watch media, I rather watch clips of movies I grew up with on YouTube.
OP, please reword to be an open-ended question.
There’s plenty of news if you want to be informed, but TV news is not it.
Several years ago, yeah. Though I do still watch series and movies. And games. But broadcast tv, no
TV sucks. You mean I can only watch what someone else decides I can watch at that point in time? And they expect me to give them money to be my virtual babysitter? No thanks, bro.
Haven’t watched tv for 10 years. Because I come from China and there are nothing except propaganda on tv.
I spend more time looking for something to watch than actually watching TV.
Haven’t watched TV in so long that when I invited friends over to watch the last Super Bowl, we had to scramble to find a streaming that had it because I forgot TVs need an antenna to get the actual channels and we don’t have one.
me, the last time i watched tv (actual tv!! like cable and stuff) was when i was 16 and now i’m 21, it’s been a long time, we do have a tv in the house but most of the time we only watch netflix or stuff like that. it’s fine tho, i would rather watch youtube or just watch series from my laptop!!
oh wait nevermind actually my mom and i watch cable tv sometimes because they have most of the halmark christmas movies there so umm we have been watching them, it’s things like these that makes tv worth it sort of!!!
Yuuup stopped watching TV when I moved out. Didn’t even own a TV for a few years till I got one for a PS4. Now I just have a computer hooked up to it for yt and anime.
I can’t stand commercials, and don’t get how anyone watches normal TV when you can just watch full episodes of anything you want online.
I have whole house ad blocking as well with pi hole
Stopped watching TV as a teenager, it’s too passive for me so i prefer just watching the shows and movies i care about or game.
The only thing i like about TV is having it run in the background to keep me company but as you can imagine i don’t have any contract with the provider so it’s usually just yt or twitch
Stopped watching TV when I left home in 2006. People are still watching fucking television? Crazy with how many different types of screens we have in our face everyday anyway, who needs TV?
That’s similar to my timing. I never made a decision to stop watching TV, but when I was in college between studying, playing around on the internet, computer games, reading books, and everything else that goes on in college I had better things to do so my TV watching time eventually dwindled down to pretty much nothing. When I left home in 2005, I didn’t have a TV to bring with me and I soon realized that I didn’t even care.
With not having a TV habit, when the streaming services came to be I never became interested in them.
Now whenever I end up seeing traditional television at a friends house or whatever, I don’t know how anyone can stand it.
I’m so old that I can watch reruns of a series that I’ve already watched and laugh at the same jokes because I forgot the episode.
Also, it’s not the healthiest habit, but TV numbs the mind so that I can forget about my problems long enough to fall asleep.
I’m turning into my dad. I remember waking up early to get to school and seeing my dad sleeping in his recliner with sportsline on very low volume. Now I use TV to get to sleep, too.
I got into a habit of falling asleep on the sofa because watching tv was the only way I could fall asleep with insomnia. That last years until moving and getting a new sofa. The new sofa wasn’t ready at the new place and I had no choice but to sleep in my bed (there’s no television in the bedroom). I still move to the sofa if I wake up in the middle of the night and feel restless.
I haven’t watched broadcast television or paid for service since about 2010. It was quite jarring watching cable news when in a hotel and just how little detail they give about anything while padding every story out with fluff so heavily. It was kind of insulting how they’d tease an upcoming story before every commercial break, except every time it would be the story right before the next break and somehow feel not even worth teasing once they gave you more than the teaser. Is this realy how people get their news? I can get a much better handle on local and world events in 30 minutes of reading a few news sources in the web than the fluff cable news gave me
I have entirely replaced tv with doom scrolling
Yay?
Well, TV rotted sometime in the 2000s. The History channel started running shit like Orange County Pawn Truckers and kinda took Discovery with it with Dirty Crab Busters, The Sci-Fi channel started playing wrestling, any fictional TV shows went gritty heartburn drama for 20 solid goddamn years, so I gave up.
I binged a few TV series, often years after they were made, first on DVD and then on Netflix. And as Netflix started losing content to the “It’s just not available anywhere anymore” hole or the “We’re making our own streaming service” hole, I preferred to just do without. So I do, and have for at least 10 years now.
