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I just want a cat and meme video platform not some “Breaking now” state sponsored information funnel :(

• jazzyjackson 3y ago
  Have you heard of the saga of the puppy channel? A man had collected hundreds of hours of VHS tapes of cute pets and embarked on a mission to create a broadcast channel featuring no ads, just cute videos. Everyone turned him down, not interested, offended even at the notion that one would need a break from ad-mediated drama-laden television https://www.thisamericanlife.org/233/starting-from-scratch/act-one-24 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/233/starting-from-scratch/a...
  • sircastor 3y ago
    My wife and I still occasionally break out into a song of "Puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppieeeeees!"
    • neilv 3y ago
      "Natalie Portman & Rashida Jones Speak Out Again" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEdZ8FY_fo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEdZ8FY_fo (I can't find the puppies one.)
  • neilv 3y ago
    For awhile, Reddit did pretty well with "cat pictures". The front page has been compromised for many years, but there's still corners like: https://old.reddit.com/r/Awww/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Awww/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/
    • masklinn 3y ago
      Sadly the reposting (and mislabelling, and potato-ing) has gotten absolutely insane across the board so it’s quite a bit less enjoyable than it used to.
  • kd5bjo 3y ago
    One of the local cable channels growing up was a fish channel-- Somebody shot a few hours of footage at a local aquarium[1] and they ran it constantly on loop with a soundtrack of classical music. [1] Maybe a pet fish store, actually