Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Kintarian@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Because around 20 years ago these networks figured out that they can make just as much money pumping out cheap and crappy reality shows as they can by creating expensive and difficult to produce quality programming.

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Capitalism at its best

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 month ago

capiTALiSm bREeDS INnOvATIon

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

And it worked before streaming came around. Now cable subscriptions are in free fall and they don't know what to do.