I'm convinced that any human who could time travel from before, say, 1900 AD to today would, inside of two weeks, be a Starbucks-ordering YouTube-addicted meme lord.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I remember we'd tape shows on the VCR when gone and it was so nice to fast forward through the ads.

Going back to live shows I found myself reaching for the VCR remote until I remembered.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Taping a movies on VHS and trying to not record the commercials so you end up with a few seconds of old commercials and a few seconds missing from the start of each segment :)

[–] TychoQuad@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I became a god with the pause button and managed to record programs without any ads, and missing none of the program, as if you had bought the show on VHS, only with the station logo in the corner sometimes

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The advertisers are afraid of me... I have seen their true face. The channels are extended gutters, and the gutters are full of blood, and when the drains finally scab over, all the marketers will drown. The accumulated filth of all their spamming and selling will foam up about their waists, and all the influencers and executives will look up and shout "Record us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."

~Piped~ ~mirror~

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I know, why do people act like recording shows and skipping ads is at all a new thing. If anything it's harder to avoid ads on streaming platforms then broadcast TV because you can still record broadcast TV and skip ads.