MTV always has some annoying preachy commercials running that try to be hip/rad/totally hot dude. (Remember Pink and the movement to get young’uns to vote?) Unfortunately, by virtue of being preachy, MTV fails at being much of anything except irritating.
The GYT commercials stole in quietly and over time, I became more curious as to what exactly was going on (sort of like getting an STD…?). There would be these black backgrounds with rapidly changing words in bright colors, and then at the end it said GYT in huge letters.
Ruining my merriment
What could GYT mean?! I asked.
For a long time, I simply dreamed. Maybe it was an underground political campaign (underground? on MTV? perhaps not my brightest thought). Maybe it stood for Gorge Your Turkey (it’s never too early for an AMURICAN holiday like Thanksgiving). Maybe there was going to be a new edition of True Life (much like that blessing of our time, 16 & Pregnant).
Alas, it was not to be. Finally I either actually watched the commercial or looked it up, and discovered the ugly truth: MTV was blighting my TV-watching time with STD commercials.
Of course, Soulja Boy and Perez Hilton lend credibility to any cause:
Isn’t this what those stupid Trojan commercials with gonnorhea gifting were for? We get it; STDs are bad; don’t re-gift. Fine. But inundating us with messages about getting a swab shoved up you-know-where is interfering with my blithe enjoyment of trash TV and making me angry.
The real tragedy of STDs is that apparently they make you illiterate.
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NV/R,
Margo
That’s almost as bad as Smilin’ Bob. http://myfeveredramblings.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/televisions-most-annoying-things-part-1/
Get Your Test? Gonorrhoea’s Yucky, Ted? I’m too lazy to actually look it up.
Usually when MTV commercials or other holier-than-thou commercials anger me I want contradict them immediately. Example: every non-smoking commercial makes me want to become a chain smoker (mostly because apparently your dog will begin to talk to you and you will immediately kill your little sibling). I was going to say something along the lines of “well hell, now I want to go get a…”
no wait, I don’t want STDs.
WHOA COMMON SENSE? NOBODY WANTS STDS AND EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE.
NV/R,
Maria
Now that I have watched the video… I’d just like to put it out there that Perez Hilton has two BLACK HOLES ON HIS FACE where normal human beings would have two nostrils.
NV/R,
Maria
PEREZ HILTON = VOLDEMORT.
You heard it here first!
NV/R,
Margo