Jackass/Viva La Bam was peak cultural degeneracy, where adults actually started to tune in to watch this absolute low point of Western 'entertainment' television for clueless sixteen-year-olds.
Especially 'Viva La Bam' was embarrassing and the harbinger of what was to come on Youtube.
The degeneracy comes from imitators forgoing the independent thought and outcast aspect that came from the earlier extreme sports and hooligan cultures, then the later cultural homogeneity that's built up since 2007. Sure Bam is a full on addict, but before that CKY/Jackass was a real entertainment documentary.
Viva La Bam and Jackass were lousy but they were the terminus of what started with CKY and Bam's skating stuff, which was a great snapshot of Gen X life when it was current. It was all before internet was standard, homemade fucking around and not giving a shit which was the attitude of every teenager at the time, only most of us couldn't afford video equipment. I can't hate Bam for that, but I think it was media and MTV pushing and changing him just as much as he helped ruin anything by the end.
Jackass/Viva La Bam was peak cultural degeneracy, where adults actually started to tune in to watch this absolute low point of Western 'entertainment' television for clueless sixteen-year-olds.
Especially 'Viva La Bam' was embarrassing and the harbinger of what was to come on Youtube.
The degeneracy comes from imitators forgoing the independent thought and outcast aspect that came from the earlier extreme sports and hooligan cultures, then the later cultural homogeneity that's built up since 2007. Sure Bam is a full on addict, but before that CKY/Jackass was a real entertainment documentary.
rofl, it was pure MTV decadence. He was living in a mansion and using the wealth of his parents to arrange for the most elaborate(ly dumb) stunts.
Viva LA Bam is 2 layers removed from CKY, and I have not watched a minute of it.
It was his wealth, but the rest is right.
Whatever, dork.
Viva La Bam and Jackass were lousy but they were the terminus of what started with CKY and Bam's skating stuff, which was a great snapshot of Gen X life when it was current. It was all before internet was standard, homemade fucking around and not giving a shit which was the attitude of every teenager at the time, only most of us couldn't afford video equipment. I can't hate Bam for that, but I think it was media and MTV pushing and changing him just as much as he helped ruin anything by the end.
And the way he treated his parents and that creepy uncle of his. Lowpoint doesn't begin to describe it.
MTV truly was a vehicle of left-liberal degeneracy and an unofficial media arm of the DNC.
It started with the Big Brother magazine, that's where the videos started that spun out to shit like CKY and Jackass