but those are not actually meant for Teens, those are meant for tweens who want to pretend to be grown up.TheMisterManGuy said:
Poll: As a Teenager, which did you watch more? Toonami, or MTV?
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You're asking the majority, of what I would consider video gamers. If as a teenager they watched more Toonami or MTV. You have to be popular to care about MTV. Okay I joke, please seriously that was a joke.
As for myself. I watched more Toonami than MTV. Reality TV sucks, anime, cartoons, is where it is at.
As for myself. I watched more Toonami than MTV. Reality TV sucks, anime, cartoons, is where it is at.
I only watched MTV because beavis & Butthead came on. Toonami didn't show up till I was in my late teens. In the 90s we still had a few choices for animated content. Fox,Nick,Cartoon Network, and ABC. The good old days!
Holy shit! You probably have me by at least a decade. You win. I was still pretty young throughout the 80s, but had a lot of exposure to the greatness of TV. That was the best time to watch TV period.camazotz said:
No, that's not the joke. It's the fact that people have difficulty accurately assessing the merits of the music they listened to in their formative years. The little addendum to that comic said "Now it's all about image. Not like in the days of Glam Rock..."krazykidd said:
Apparently they were neck and neck for the same young demographic around 15 years ago.krazykidd said:
I feel genuinely sorry for anyone who answers MTV.
Especially since most of you are a good bit younger than me, and when you were a teenager MTV had already sucked completely hardcore for years...
I watched MTV fall from....uh...okayishness to utter shit while I was a teen.
Toonami was fucking glorious back in the day, but, again, my Toonami was a far greater Toonami than the later incarnations that a lot of the younger folks will've experienced.
I was with Toonami from Day 1 when Moltar activated it, and even before that I eagerly followed the daily countdown to Toonami's arrival.
Core Toonami was best from 1998-2001.
The Midnight Run and The Rising Sun were both good all the way through.
Especially since most of you are a good bit younger than me, and when you were a teenager MTV had already sucked completely hardcore for years...
I watched MTV fall from....uh...okayishness to utter shit while I was a teen.
Toonami was fucking glorious back in the day, but, again, my Toonami was a far greater Toonami than the later incarnations that a lot of the younger folks will've experienced.
I was with Toonami from Day 1 when Moltar activated it, and even before that I eagerly followed the daily countdown to Toonami's arrival.
Core Toonami was best from 1998-2001.
The Midnight Run and The Rising Sun were both good all the way through.
Toonami for the most part, had some really great shows.
MTV was good for turning to every once and a while to see what music my classmates were into, but then it seemed like every time I turned to it and no matter what time of day it was always some sort of stupid reality show. In retrospect it probably wasn't like that at all but back then it sure felt like it. So yeah...eventually I gave up and stuck to good ole Toonami. Ah Tom, how I miss you.
MTV was good for turning to every once and a while to see what music my classmates were into, but then it seemed like every time I turned to it and no matter what time of day it was always some sort of stupid reality show. In retrospect it probably wasn't like that at all but back then it sure felt like it. So yeah...eventually I gave up and stuck to good ole Toonami. Ah Tom, how I miss you.
Music goes in 5-ish year cycles of being really good and really shit.krazykidd said:
I think people hit one of the 5 year shit cycles and decide all new music sucks, and then just kinda stop listening to new stuff from then on.
Happily, the cycle is currently on the upswing. I'm hoping that the uncaring power of internet dominance will have destroyed the cycle completely by the time we're due for the next decline. Hopefully record labels will have lost the influence needed for them to meaningfully inflict stupid choices upon society.
I only watched MTV when Celebrity Deathmatch, Daria or, Beavis & Butt-Head were on. Otherwise I would watch Toonami. Luckily there wasn't a lot of overlap when it came to those shows. I didn't really start watching non-animated shows until I was in my Junior year of high school or so...even now I don't often watch live-action stuff.
MTV had NSync and Backstreet Boys, Toonami had DragonBall Z and Gundam Wing. Seems pretty obvious, DBZ and GW all the way.
Toonami, no contest.
Although I never watched MTV often (wasn't big on music as a kid), I can attest that yes, MTV was incredible in it's presentation back then. Actually focused on MUSIC
Although I never watched MTV often (wasn't big on music as a kid), I can attest that yes, MTV was incredible in it's presentation back then. Actually focused on MUSIC
If I recall back in the 90's and early 2000's MTV used to be mostly music videos right? I only saw MTV a couple of times growing up and it was almost exclusively music videos when I saw it. So Toonami wins by a long shot.
I'll go ahead and say that Daria is one of the greatest shows ever made, so MTV did have THAT.
Credit where credit's due.
Fair's fair.
But that's basically the only great thing to ever come out of MTV, and that's from back before they became a festering pit of reality TV bullshit.
Music videos were nice to have, but nothing to use as ammo in a competition with Toonami.
Credit where credit's due.
Fair's fair.
But that's basically the only great thing to ever come out of MTV, and that's from back before they became a festering pit of reality TV bullshit.
Music videos were nice to have, but nothing to use as ammo in a competition with Toonami.
Neither.
Cartoons are for kids, the stories and characters are basic and wacky. Didn't hold much interest for me as a teen.
MTV was just music videos and that wasn't interesting either, I don't need a video to listen to music and watching people "dancing" is boring.
I started watching kind of more adult stuff as I went into high school, it wasn't like news or Grey's anatomy ... it started off with stuff like the Tribe (that post apolcolyptic show it was about 2 gangs of teenagers. It was shot in New Zealand) and as I got older Veronica Mars, friends, Smallville, Dharma and Greg etc you know, that kind of stuff.
I still watch that kind of stuff but I like am now watching more Arrow, Bones etc. Not that I am a teen any more.
Cartoons are for kids, the stories and characters are basic and wacky. Didn't hold much interest for me as a teen.
MTV was just music videos and that wasn't interesting either, I don't need a video to listen to music and watching people "dancing" is boring.
I started watching kind of more adult stuff as I went into high school, it wasn't like news or Grey's anatomy ... it started off with stuff like the Tribe (that post apolcolyptic show it was about 2 gangs of teenagers. It was shot in New Zealand) and as I got older Veronica Mars, friends, Smallville, Dharma and Greg etc you know, that kind of stuff.
I still watch that kind of stuff but I like am now watching more Arrow, Bones etc. Not that I am a teen any more.
Well, Cartoon Network aired several mature programming on Toonami even if they were edited. Ever watched Gundam Wing? The Big O? Batman Beyond? Outlaw Star? IGPX? Rurouni Kenshin? Yu Yu Hakusho? Justice League? Samurai Jack?omega 616 said:
