Assignment5- Swazey Sexton- The Death of Normal Television

I don't watch TV, I doubt there are very few people that legitimately watch TV. There's just no point. Back when Television first started, it was an outlet for creativity for directors, producers, and writers to create ongoing stories and segments that kept the audience on edge every week. It was a means to be able to steadily increase the quality of the show as the audience reacted to the large cliff hangers of dramas and actions, and to figure out what kind of humor was best responded to in your sitcoms and other comedy shows. It was a way for people have a weekly thing they can watch, and people steered towards certain channels because those channels gave them specific content and stories they liked. MTV was for people who wanted to relate to musicians and to get a behind the scenes look on the people they idolized, early Disney was live action, family friendly dramas and sitcoms that kids could enjoy, Cartoon network was your animation hub full of silly gimmick type shows like Tom and Jerry, to the action packed shows like the original Teen Titans, and Nickelodeon was a large center for episode by episode comedies like Sponge-bob, Catdog, and Jimmy Neutron. But as television has gone on, they just started copying what got the best scores, no one channel has really any specific feel except for the flashback channels like Boomerang, and the majority of plots seem to be too repetitive. Nowadays, streaming services like Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, the DC Channel, and Twitch are a better, and more creative outlet, Hulu and Netflix originals like Lucifer, The Path, The Act, Daredevil, Catch 22, and Black Mirror are thriving more than standard television series, and Twitch streamers and YouTube content creators tend to put out more interactive (and in many cases) more creative content. So while I don't watch TV, I watch Critical Role, The Children of the Whales, Hero Mask, The Boys Good Omens, and a handful of YouTubers that are just a more modern and better fit for of entertainment.