Why Doesn't MTV Play Videos Anymore? Because You're Old.

Why did MTV replace our beloved music videos with trashy reality shows? It’s a pretty common complaint among people in their twenties and thirties–but is it really the music videos we miss, or is it our collective youth? Is this our way to behave like crotchety old people, waving our fingers in the faces of children and saying, “back in my day…”?

The makers of this video think so–and they led us to believe in the quarter-life crisis phenomenon until we realized that it’s already a few years too late for that! Oh, merciful Lord…In the video, a fictional MTV exec proceeds to “Break it down for everyone born before 1995 — aka not our F***ing demographic anymore.”

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