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OldPunk1984 t1_irp47cr wrote

Pretty much. They show it for a couple of reasons. It’s cheap to make and since there isn’t a story or anything, someone can tune in at anytime and they haven’t missed anything.

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Alertcircuit t1_irq9gai wrote

It's probably like 50%+ of what my dad watches on TV. He doesn't really use the internet much so my conspiracy theory is that the reason Ridiculousness is successful is because it's how older people watch funny Youtube videos without having to figure out how to use Youtube. The show itself is basically AFV with commentary, from what I've seen of it.

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southsiderick t1_irqu78t wrote

My grandpa knows how to use youtube, your dad just really likes ridiculousness.

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Iggy_Pops_Lost_Shirt t1_irrv0xx wrote

What a stupid generalization

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[deleted] t1_irsojae wrote

It's more of an assumption than a generalization

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Iggy_Pops_Lost_Shirt t1_irsrv3s wrote

"My grandpa can do this therefore anyone younger/around the same age as him can do it too" is a generalization

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Gopokes34 t1_irrpjjo wrote

My dad loves ridiculousness lol. Even when were all at my parents house we'll end up watching it a little here and there.

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Celtictussle t1_irq6s0n wrote

Their CEO also talked about the airing strategy, basically saying "the more often we show it back to back, the better the ratings of each individual airing"

So it's really the perfect storm, cheap, timeless, episodic, and compounds it's own success.

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EmbarrassedAd8262 t1_irqr3hy wrote

Where did you watch/read that? I wanna check it out! Also Chanel did a podcast and said that just her alone, she makes $100,000 per new episode

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rustyxj t1_irqn0uf wrote

>They show it for a couple of reasons. It’s cheap to make and since there isn’t a story or anything, someone can tune in at anytime and they haven’t missed anything.

Like music videos?

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phred_666 t1_irrsn1y wrote

At this point, MTV should be referred to as “Miscellaneous Television” instead of “Music Television”.

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goldybear t1_irr8dzh wrote

Also ridiculousness is almost up to 1000 episodes (despite being in for only about 10 years) so they can replay them constantly and a new viewer may not see a repeat for a long ass time.

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boundbylife t1_irr7qrg wrote

It's be better if they could do shorter form content, maybe 2-5 minutes in length, so you're just seconds away from the next piece. Maybe set them to music of some kind...

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