I Am the Anti-Snooki

Oh, American pop culture... how you never cease to amaze and mortify me on a daily basis.

I can try to duck you by not watching any reality shows or reading tabloids, but then you rear your ugly head on The Soup anyway. I know the names Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt, Justin Bieber, and Kim Kardashian without actually having seen or heard anything any of these people have produced (and I am not linking them from my blog. They don't need any more help in their attention whoring). I immediately understand a reference to someone being The Bachelorette, but I've never watched one minute of the show. In these over-wired times, we can't help but absorb some of this slurry by visual osmosis. People continue to find new ways to make themselves famous with no discernible talents, and the audience has pretty much given up on demanding better from their media. In the past few years, it seems the standards for what is acceptable entertainment have hit such a low, I feel we should all be watching television from the bottom of a tremendous barrel.

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