I honestly preferred the lull period in the early 2000s when the network was completely inoffensive.

An hour or two of music videos and a lot of cheesy, ultimately innocent dating shows like Next, Room Raiders, and Dismissed. The early years of My Super Sweet 16 were also rather absurd. The last great and relevant show on MTV was Pimp My Ride and soon as that ended I was completely done watching MTV in any capacity

MTV from 2003-2008 was as heteronormative and American as the channel ever got. It was pure popcorn and had no agenda. The death of TRL a week after Obama won his first term was no coincidence to me. The network very quickly shifted to nihilist and divisive programming like Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, 16 and Pregnant, and I Used to be Fat