Reality Shows killed the Music Video star

Basically what happened to MTV over the first 25 years of the 21st century, from their slow switch to Reality shows from Music oriented programming ending at the shutdown of the remaining linear music only MTV channels like MTV hits, music, live, 80s, 90s and 00s in 2026. The saying is a spin on the first thing MTV aired, the music video for Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles

- Hey, did you know that MTV shut down their music only channels?

- Welp, I guess the saying „Reality Shows killed the Music Video star” is true.

by basically_ar January 6, 2026

mixed-reality

Refers to an event or activity that takes place in both the virtual world and the real world. Term possibly coined by Adam Pasick, a.k.a. Adam Reuters, Reuters' bureau chief in Second Life.

I'm conducting mixed-reality interviews at events such as the World Economic Forum in Davos.

by Jack Martin Leith February 27, 2007

photoshopping reality

When the press, public relations firms, government officials and political campaigns distort reality, twist the facts, apply filters like those used in PhotoShop to changes images, that is photoshopping reality. Closely associated with spin, perception management, marketing and propaganda.

When Secretary of State Colin Powell showed photographs to the UN proving the existence of chemical warfare plants, he was photoshopping reality. Also, President George W. Bush's infamous comment to FEMA chief Michael D. Brown while the latter was botching the federal response to Hurricane Katrina: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

by Songpoet February 7, 2008

Second Reality

used to describe any simulated world or game in which life is perfect

Man: My life is depressing. I'm going to enter Second Reality.
*clicks*
Female Voice: WELCOME TO SECOND REALITY

by BlueAidMan April 25, 2015

jaded reality

A reality that is made up based on ones own opinions, usually confused with what is real.

Steve had such a jaded reality he thought that telling his girlfriend to lose weight was a motivational tool. Instead, she left him for verbal abuse.

by Sarah steves ex January 18, 2016

paranoid reality

A reality that’s troubled, seams unreal yet is, seems paranoid in nature though isn’t in reality because of circumstances being strangely true.

Brent, you’re not paranoid, you have a paranoid reality!

by Hunt21 May 30, 2019

personalized reality

A design and constructed reality which filters out negative media messages, negative people, and applies the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, and other Christian principles. It is more efficient, more honest, and respects and considers the individuals far more than the mainstream reality does.

Though no one anywhere is free to do everything they want, in the United States we enjoy the most freedom anyone has ever enjoyed. I take advantage of my freedom by doing all I can to feel the most pleasure and the least pain. Seeing mainstream reality's flaws, I also imagined and visualized myself and others living in a better reality, a "personalized reality" and filtered out all the negative messages the media disseminates. I filtered out negative people (including some family members). I stopped practicing negative, counterproductive habits, and apply most of the Christian principles, starting with the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule to create a more efficient, more honest reality which is more respectful and more considerate of myself and others.

by but for July 30, 2020