Anti-Click Episode 3: Slow News Week

Another week, another vlog. It was a slow news week, so I only discuss one article this week. Here's the copy for the episode:

Hello, and welcome to Anti-Click, where I review click bait so you don't necessarily have to. I'm your host Amanda, filming at scenic wherever I have wifi. It was an incredibly slow news week with many news articles being about "Fuller House" becoming a reality. This was possibly the most responsibly reported piece of entertainment news in ages - but one news source showed their addiction to click-baity titles. And, guys, it was not Buzzfeed.

Any other guesses? If you said "MTV News", you might be better adjusted to their decline than I am. Yes, MTV News contributed to the Internet's every minute on the minute coverage of "Fuller House" news with the article "The 'Full House' Revival Is Officially Heading To Netflix, But There's a Deadly Twist." Dramatic much, MTV News? Unless you live under a rock, you know that "Fuller House" follows DJ Tanner-Fuller, recently widowed and pregnant mother of two boys, with Stephanie and Kimmy moving in to help her out. It is also the gender flipped premise of "Full House," so I wonder if MTV News knows what a twist is. Look, even Buzzfeed went with '"Full House" Spin-Off Is Officially Happening on Netflix,' so MTV News may wish to re-examine some life decisions.

That's it for this week. Leave anything you want in the comments - praise, criticism, recommendations for articles to review - and I'll see you next week with more Anti-Click.

MTV News Reminds Me That the Struggle For Real News Is Real

Remember when Kurt Loder and Serena Altschul gave us our news between MTV programs and it was either real news or music news and no fluff? Well, you'll be glad to know MTV is consistent - they didn't just kill the music in MTV, but also the news in MTV News. Bright side: if they hadn't done that, we would never have such captivating pieces as "13 Struggles From 2005 That Today's Teens Will Never Know." I don't remember doing a lot of struggling in 2005, but let's have a look.

3. Listening to music in the car required a cassette adapter thingy.
They're talking about for their iPod. How rich was the writer of this piece? In 2005, I was using a cassette adapter thingy for my CD player because, like many young people, I had a used car and couldn't afford an iPod.

5. We had to agonize over who was in our "Top 8".
Yeah, okay, I'll give them that one. That struggle was real.

7. Flying meant long wi-fi withdrawals.
We had wi-fi in 2005? I was barely not using dial-up.

13. Miley Cyrus wasn't famous yet.
But we had adorble, unspoiled by Disney Big Fish Miley. Life was simpler for all of us.

So it's not only fluff, it's fluff that is about a much better 2005 than I lived in. Thanks for making me realize how really real my 2005 struggle were, MTV News. I would have been blissfully oblivious without this top notch reporting.