Oh, I completely agree. How the Jackass variety of things became so popular, I have no idea. Ugh.
I can watch that shit; I just don’t get the joke.
It’s not the footage so much as the audience and smarmy host response.
Girl on girl kissing.
I mean, if it’s a serious movie about two girls being in love, then that’s one thing. But when you’re doing it to shore up the college frat boy demographic, it takes me right out of the show.
Like just the other day, I was watching Gotham. I’ve really been enjoying this series so far, but then they had to fuck it up with a girl on girl scene. And comically, they did it with one of the most interesting characters on the show. She didn’t need that scene to add to her character. But whateves…
Along the lines of America’s Funniest Videos, any awkward setup where someone is to be humiliated, made fun of. Years ago David Letterman would send a stooge wearing an earphone out in public to do or say crazy things, and it was amusing. Years ago. I can’t watch that kind of thing any more. Candid Camera has come back and I think I would vomit if I had to watch the idiotic shennanigans. They probably sound funny on paper, but IRL a broken vending machine or any of the stupid shit they do just disgusts me. (As I’ve grown older, I guess I’ve lost a lot of my sense of humor. Just reading about Jackass makes me cringe, I could never watch it now.)
Innocent as in unknowing–if you don’t understand that others suffer as you suffer, you can’t really be held responsible for causing suffering.
Dogs may have empathy–I have no dog in that fight.