A play on MTV. The kind of television programming that you don't plan on watching, but find yourself watching when you need to do something else. Television programming of no real substance and no educational value. Not because of a lack of something to do or motivation to do something else, you wind up watching.

Briefly, "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." Originally from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which has a lot more beautiful neologism definitions like this you might enjoy.

The state of what was once MTV.

void of any substance, like slipping into a comma.