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It's been a thing since about 2009 - https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-televisi-1819565469 https://www.theonion.com/area-m

• jasode 9y ago
  Fyi... that Onion article is actually 17+ years old, not 8 years old. The date is February 9, 2000.
  • Joeri 9y ago
    And yet it already references the simpsons.
    • code_duck 9y ago
      The Simpsons were practically old by then.
    • dredmorbius 9y ago
      Which dates from 1987 (as part of the Tracey Ullman Show), or 1989 (freestanding). The Onion are hardly being prescient. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons
• pault 9y ago
  "Kill your TV" was already on bumper stickers in the 1970s, so I don't think it's a new phenomenon.
  • philtar 9y ago
    And vinyl records have been around since the 19050s. Both are associated with hipsters. Doesn't need to be new to be associated with hipsters.
• dredmorbius 9y ago
  Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, by Jerry Mander (an ad executive, FYI), 1978. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimination_of_Television https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimi... Though you can find the first criticisms of TV culture and "the Great Wasteland" by 1961: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_and_the_Public_Interest https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_and_the_Public_In... Applications of Gresham's Law to television and media were fairly common in the 1950s: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/618198?journalCode=lq http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/618198?jour... Or of "mass culture" (1953) http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/039219215300100301?journalCode=dioa http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0392192153001003...