Zeros

MTV Finally Goes Dark: A Long-Overdue Obituary So MTV is finally, officially, completely done. And if your reaction is, " Wait, MTV is still on? " congratulations—you're exactly who this eulogy is for. For most of us, MTV died somewhere around 2010, the moment we canceled cable and discovered that YouTube would show us music videos for free, without commercial breaks, and without making us sit through three hours of Teen Mom first. But apparently, the network has been stumbling around like a zombie for another decade and a half, and now it's finally lying down for good. Let's be honest: MTV was already irrelevant by 2000. The channel that defined a generation in the '80s and stayed cool through the '90s had become a parody of itself by the turn of the millennium. Remember when MTV actually stood for Music Television? When the M meant something besides, " Maybe We'll Show Music at 3 AM "? The '80s were MTV's glory days....