Cable television station originally devoted to showing music videos, hence the abbreviation for "Music Television." Over twenty years, it gradually phased out music except for a tiny bit of top-40 pop and rap, replacing videos with cartoons, game shows, reality shows, and other gen-x/y pseudo-hipster fare.
by Baller-Ass Nigga July 09, 2003
The brainwashing, twelve-year-old-and-younger station that hides behind a slick image. They think they're so cool that they decide what's cool.
by Jeremy Andrews April 16, 2004
by Your Name February 22, 2004
The most disgusting, filthy, and degrading channel ever to have existed. (At least in more recent years.) The nature of MTV's shows tend to glorify the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, over-tanned, Californian aesthetic, that of which is more often than not, accompanied by an extremely ridiculous lack of intellectual quality. They exploit this aesthetically-fitting persona to its narcissistic audience that loves nothing more than to surround themselves in their own pathetic auras, namely, that of their identical friends and the stars of MTV's supposed "reality" shows. For this reason, MTV fans watch in awe as blonde girls say the word "like" precisely 52 times in one scene. Fans enjoy watching people just like them shop, gossip, and degrade themselves on national television. Fans enjoy watching (and thus making the shows possible)these over-privileged, melodramatic teenagers complain about how much their lives suck, when truth be told, at that exact instant, millions of real people are dying of starvation and poverty. It is a shame that these super-stereotypical people are worthy of their own shows and it is an even bigger shame that the once righfully-named Music Television chooses to produce shows of such a nature. But perhaps the biggest disappointment of all is in humanity and its truly enigmatic interest in such brain-washing trash. MTV is a waste of electricity.
by theminorityspeaks September 22, 2007
As described previously 'The antichrist, the reason music is dead'. They used to show Ok music up until recently when they've become more concerned with episodes of 'Pimp my ride' and re-runs of 'Newlyweds'. If you watch MTV you are no better than that 3 month old ribena stain on my carpet.
by Citezen:Erased March 23, 2005
Sorry folks, if you want to see quality programming on MTV, you have to rewind all the way back to the early and mid 80's!
by Scorpion January 18, 2005
A channel that uses nothing more than advertisments and retarded reality tv shows.(except for The Osbournes)
by Alex Clark January 06, 2004