The folks at MTV have really sunk to a new low. They have a show now in its second season called “Scarred”. I saw a few minutes of a promo for the new season and turned it off in disgust. Maybe it’s just a sign of getting old, but I prefer to think it’s a sign of taste and decency. MTV’s “Scarred” is nothing but trauma porn.
Yea, I admit I occasionally watch Funniest Home Videos, but this is a collection of kids and other idiots doing skateboard tricks unsuccessfully. Now this is not the clips of kids racking their balls on a railing, that’s funny! This is kids getting life threatening head injuries to rock music. One scene featured a teenager going into convulsions from his wipe out. Somehow I find that a lot less funny.
I guess it all depends on your opinion of humor, but I thought brain injuries just lacked the giggle factor of slapstick. What the MTV generation has become being nurtured on “Jackass” is getting pretty frightening. I know teens have an invincibility complex, but turning a tidy profit on these same teens discovering that they are mortal through home videos of permanent injuries and head trauma seems wrong.
Wonder why kids try stupid things? Well there are probably lots of explanations, but I can assure you that glorifying the gore that results in their mistakes won’t help matters. Come on MTV, what happened to music videos? Don’t make stars of the stupid, that’s what CNN and Paris Hilton are for!
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I have been wondering where the music videos went for years. My theory is that they went to the same place all of the missing socks from the laundry end up at- wherever that is.
I haven't seen that show on MTV but damn, why I am not suprised?!
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