Editing /tv/ (section)

==The board==
Moviegoing was an activity that gained a certain amount of popularity during the 50s, and kept being celebrated until the invention of the Internet and Binge-watching in the early 2010s. Moviegoers tended to go to the theater and watch movies weekly and/or daily and without having any sort of preferences. This allows for a plethora of artistically ambitious directors and studios to rise as pillars of cinema histoiry and craftmanship, otherwise known as the one thing that /tv/ strives for: Kino.

/tv/ is not a board utilized by moviegoers. Well, maybe it was one day, and  it probably still is. But as pop-culture gained more and more traction with the rapid growth of internet culture and its forceful centralization by the massive corporations that own most platforms and webhosts, /tv/ now stands more as a board that focuses on movies and series ''relevant'' to pop-culture. That means that Almodovar's last movie won't probably be discussed, Nicholas Ray is a literally who, and most foreign films do not exist to them. If you don't know any of these people, it's alright, they're big names in the moviegoing community and you may have heard of them if you're really invested in festivals like Cannes or Sundance. Most of /tv/'s users, however, will claim, loud and proud, that they're movie specialists. And to prove this, they usually discuss the last minority actor that replaced an orignally white guy in a most recent adaptation of some geek and nerdy franchise, the [[/d/|pillowy dairy mounds of Christina Hendricks]], or make memes.

Now, now. /tv/ isn't bad. A lot of /tv/ users are, in truth, actually very invested in film culture, and will attempt to promote it whenever they can. But most of the board is filled to the brim with threads talking about stuff from Hollywood promoted daily on various other websites and magazines. So it's actually very not likely you'd find threads of the French New Wave, the Italian Diallo movement, Swedish Arthouse films, or anything else. It can happen! Sometimes if you're very lucky the thread will get traction, but good luck with that. But believe us, when there's a good thread on /tv/, it's always a '''really good one'''. Well, there are always chances of them derailing into oblivion, due to the meme culture of the board. But it's not too jarring. 

The mantra of many /tv/ users can be summarized in a single word: Kino. The search for absolute quality and only quality. Sure, everyone's standards for quality can differ, and this leads to a lot of heated discussions. But in times when anons are summoned for various recommandations, this is where their cinephilia truly shines. Sometimes, a lot of movies get a sudden spike in popularity just because ONE guy recommended the films to many others on a recommandation thread. Unfortunately, their search can be impeded by the constant shitposting, the uninteresting threads about the CURRENT THING HAPPENING, or any sort of speculations regarding Internet personalities and online drama.

/tv/ is a fun board. From the silly discussions about films, to the recommandation threads, passing by the many threads where you ask yourself if any of the people in there had actual mother figures in their lives, /tv/ just never stops delivering. Sure, there are times when the whole board becomes an unbrowsable mess when something major happens on social media, but for general movie discussion, /tv/ does a better job at discussing their passion than /v/. With that being said, don't always expect to find some thoughtful posting, a lot of them consist of back and forth arguing between different anons and discussions that lead nowhere. If you want a thread that is guaranteed to be good, you must find a way to make something completely unrelated to Television and Films. Go figure why THAT works.