Gwendolyn Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 More than two decades' worth of content published on MTVNews.com is no longer available after MTV appears to have fully pulled down the site and its related content. In 2023, MTV News was shuttered amid the financial woes of parent company Paramount Global. As of Monday, trying to access MTV News articles on mtvnews.com or mtv.com/news resulted in visitors being redirected to the main MTV website. Former MTV News staffers posted on social media about the website shutdown and the scrubbing of the archives. "So, mtvnews.com no longer exists. Eight years of my life are gone without a trace," Patrick Hosken, former music editor for MTV News, wrote on X. "All because it didn't fit some executives' bottom lines. Infuriating is too small a word." https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gwendolyn Posted June 24 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 24 This is why we need to support Internet Archive and similar organisations, the fact that 30 years of Pop History has now vanished because of Paramount is insulting to everyone who worked there and the culture. 21 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Another sign MTV is slowly fading. I'm surprised they still keep the VMAs and EMAs running by this point. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just a Gay on ATRL Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 First, the library of Alexandria burned down. Then, the archives of MTV News.com were wiped from the World Wide Web. No one wants to wake up to news I woke up to. No one. I sit at my vanity, scrolling, hoping, waiting, pleading. But there goes history… 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livelikemusic Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Oh this ain't cute. Thank goodness for archive sites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgos Groove Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 First they scrap complete movies, now they delete news archives. These money-grubbing executives need to be dealt with (on Minecraft). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bliaz Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 The end of an era Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Administrator Ryan Posted June 24 ATRL Administrator Share Posted June 24 They could have monetized the archives. This is such a stupid way of doing business. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touchdown Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 They've really been destroying themselves slowly for the past 30 years. A Madonna tea. 4 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodflowers. Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 PopCrave tweets killed the MTVNews.com star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gui Blackout Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 22 minutes ago, Ryan said: They could have monetized the archives. This is such a stupid way of doing business. Seriously, they have such an incredible archive. I would pay to go back and watch old interviews and specials, TRL episodes, past VMAs in full, MTV Unplugged, Cribs, My Super Sweet 16, The Hills, Laguna Beach, Jersey Shore, True Life... millennials would eat it up (I think some of it it's on Paramount+ but they need put everything there) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stars Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Wow…just like that? I'm going to find a way to blame this on ridiculousness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOW Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 This is all Justin Timberlake's fault, somehow. 1 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katamari Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 1 hour ago, Ryan said: They could have monetized the archives. This is such a stupid way of doing business. i think thats what they are going to do hopefully ot: this is ghetto as hell. i hope wiki archived this stuff because a lot of weekly album sales sources are going to be missing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 Just delete decades of music history, great idea... This is why I've invested in buying certain things. Books from record research, certain genre history books & contemplated a yearly subscription to Rocks Backpages. Companies are either willfully deleting **** or new executives don't see the value in things. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagol88 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 1 hour ago, Touchdown said: They've really been destroying themselves slowly for the past 30 years. A Madonna tea. Not today. Not with that avi 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robattack332 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 It's not for no reason. Outlets like this that were big 10-25 years ago have a lot of content that is not considered PC today (aka fun). Execs (in a lot of industries) would just rather remove what they can as they have no idea what would be considered problematic now...or even in a week from now...can't blame them tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relampago. Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 17 minutes ago, robattack332 said: It's not for no reason. Outlets like this that were big 10-25 years ago have a lot of content that is not considered PC today (aka fun). Execs (in a lot of industries) would just rather remove what they can as they have no idea what would be considered problematic now...or even in a week from now...can't blame them tbh If this were true, and I highly doubt it is, that would be the dumbest ****ing reason ever to do this As if people are going around cancelling old MTV episodes and movies which would have been done by now anyways. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropical Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 That whole "the internet lives forever" thing has really turned out to be such a crock. I can never find anything. Maybe AI could at least prove useful in that regard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rehceeb Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 3 hours ago, Just a Gay on ATRL said: First, the library of Alexandria burned down. Then, the archives of MTV News.com were wiped from the World Wide Web. No one wants to wake up to news I woke up to. No one. I sit at my vanity, scrolling, hoping, waiting, pleading. But there goes history… you forgot to mention Yahoo! Answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1989 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 3 hours ago, Gui Blackout said: Seriously, they have such an incredible archive. I would pay to go back and watch old interviews and specials, TRL episodes, past VMAs in full, MTV Unplugged, Cribs, My Super Sweet 16, The Hills, Laguna Beach, Jersey Shore, True Life... millennials would eat it up (I think some of it it's on Paramount+ but they need put everything there) Exactly. Also, regarding Paramount +, while most of their classic shows are up, a lot of them don't have all of the episodes. I feel like there's only a handful of shows on there that do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagol88 Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 45 minutes ago, Tropical said: That whole "the internet lives forever" thing has really turned out to be such a crock. I can never find anything. Maybe AI could at least prove useful in that regard. The internet is forever...until someone doesn't pay for servers anymore. This is a huge issue in videogames as well, specially with online games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyxmage Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 MTV is gone, VH1 is gone but BET is still standing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bussea Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 this is genuinely sad omg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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