Editing /tv/

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/tv/ is a board on [[4chan]] dedicated to Film and Television. While much of it has little to do with /tg/, several /tg/ interests cross over with /tv/, including the same sort of praise for [[Lord of the Rings|Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Lord of the Rings]] and regular references to [[Konrad Curze|American Psycho]]. Also, thinly veiled attempts at posting Rule 34 disguised as movie discussion. We know you /tg/, this ain't just a goblin/orc thread you're doing.

==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.

==Memes==
/tv/ is fun. And as a fun board, they're behind a lot of memes or jokes that are frequently reused every where else on 4chan. Television series and movies being too very popular mediums, it's always very likely that people fromm all across the imageboard actually watched, or at least heard of, a series that currently piqued /tv/'s interest. We owe the board such classics as:
* '''Bane Posting''': /tv/ is particularly fond of the Dark Knight Trilogy by Christopher Nolan, just like the rest of the Internet. But they are particularly fan of the third installment of the series; The Dark Knight Rises. Why? Because of Bane, mostly. The undecipherable dialog, the weird delivery of his lines, his general motive and overall presentation came as a bowl of fresh air for the character who was, the recent years preceding the movie, depicted as a mindless brute. One scene, however, stands out of all the rest to /tv/'s eyes: The plane scene. The opening of the film, accompanied by a very tense music, subpar acting by the character only known as "C.I.A." by the community, his discussion with Bane and the pace of it all made for picturesque material for general shitposting. /tv/ loves to re-do the entire scene and had an interesting twist to it; whether it is by renacting it using vocaroos, calling Nolan's strange obsession with namedropping by replacing the entirety of the dialog with made up names, or cloning C.I.A.
* '''American Psycho''': A particular example of a meme that not only branched off /tv/ and unto all of 4chan, but also off the website itself as shitposting regarding the peak of Christian Bale's career is frequent on websites and apps such as YouTube, Discord and Twitter. American Psycho features Patrick Bateman, a 27 year-old financial prodigee and ''100% butt-fuck insane psychopath'' [[Khorne Berserkers|who preys on the people he vehemently hates with a flaming passion]] and [[-4 STR|women]]. The sheer quotability and state of American Psycho as a cult classic gave the film a massive fanbase. From scene re-enactments to parodies, /tv/ celebrates the movie whenever they can. There are too many injokes on the board to list them all here. Oh, one question though; [[Bard|Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?]]
* '''Fesh Pince of Blair''': While not /tv/ specific, it's to be noted that /tv/ preferred Dikekike's YTP of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air than the actual series itself. Often quoting passages or entire scenes from the trilogy. Also, variants of the show's intro can be found here and there, especially when anything happens to Will Smith.
* '''Harry Potter posting''': The Harry Potter movies really aren't popular at all on /tv/. [[Meme|HOOOOOOOWEEEEEVEEEEEEEEEEEER]], the community frequently mocks it by calling J.K. Rowling's poor writing and worldbuilding, mocking her rants on Twitter or Emma Watson's shenanigans, writing prompts, copypastas and greentexts related to it, and calling the series shit-literature (on a board that discusses movies). You may have seen pastas of people complaining that Rowling would rather say "shake their legs" instead of "running", pictures of Voldemort saying "Deh!" or Severus Snape's ramblings about making polymorph potions to masturbate himself while disguised as Lily Potter. They don't like it, but you bet your ass they love to pock fun at Mr. Potter.
* '''Simpsons Posting''': The Simpsons were celebrated here and there on /tv/, and just like the rest of the fan community, /tv/ hates anything beyond Season 8 or 9. Recurrent threads of Simpsons editing could be observed from time to time, and they consisted of people taking scenes or entire segments of classic Simpsons episodes and completely altering them or making referrences to other Simpsons jokes or scenes. Some results are pretty surreal. But of course, that was before...
* '''Sneed''': Otherwise known as Sneed's Seed and Feed (formerly Chucks's) is a thrown-in background joke and scene from an episode of the Simpsons. Naturally the scene itself and the jokes aren't remarkable on their own, and the characters aren't particularly noteworthy, unlike someone like Hank Scorpio for example. So of course, some guys on /tv/ thought it would be super fun to spam the joke everytime they had the occasion to do it. Despite the janitors' best efforts to shut down any sort of Sneedposting, their combat was in vain, since Sneed became the new hot thing of /tv/. Any time the Simpsons are mentionned, you'd witness not just a derailment, but a literal flood of Sneedposts. They were unstoppable. Repeating the same joke over and over again. People complained, their cries were followed by "Sneed"s. People made anti-sneed posts, none of which succeeded. And then Sneed branched off /tv/ and went on other boards; /v/, /x/, /pol/, etc. The only board left to absolutely despise Sneed being /co/. For many, /tv/'s reputation and overall quality was ruined by sneedposting, which is... Debatable. At one point, the meme reached a point where the characters featured in the skits were used to a similar manner as Pepe the Frog. Showcasing them in absurd and politically incorrect situations. 
TLDR: Things escalated quickly.
* '''Buck Breaking''': Completely ignoring the debates that surrounded Tariq Nasheed's film, /tv/ jumped on the controversial hype of the film to yet again post politically incorrect memery. For a long while, the board was filled with greentexts of anons roleplaying as slave-owners who anally annhilate their slaves. It was... Something. This also led to the ironic praise of Tariq Nasheed and his silly ideas.
* '''Blade Runner 2049''': With Dennis Villeneuve's attempt at a sequel to the cyberpunk cult classic, /tv/ fell for the movie's charm and praised the movie throughout. Remember that scene with Ryan Gosling crying and shouting? Or that scene where he confront a giant, interactive ad with a woman? Yeah, /tv/ was obsessed with those scenes in particular.


== /tg/ /tv/ on This Site ==
*[[Adventure Time]]
*[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]
*[[Avatar: The Last Airbender#Legend_of_Korra|Avatar: The Legend of Korra]]
*[[Conan the Adventurer]]
*[[Conan the Barbarian]]
*[[Doctor Who]]
*[[Dune]]
*[[Firefly]]
*[[A Song of Ice and Fire|Game of Thrones]]
*[[Harry Potter]]
*[[The Dark Crystal]]
*[[The Hobbit]]
*[[The Lord of the Rings]]
*[[The Lord Inquisitor - Seed of Ambition]]
*[[Mazes and Monsters]]
*[[Samurai Jack]]
*[[Starship Troopers]]
*[[Star Trek]]
*[[Star Wars]]
*[[Transformers]]
*[[Ultramarines: The Movie]]
*[[Wakfu]]
*[[War Planets]]

== See Also ==
*[[Approved movies|Approved Movies]]
*[[Approved Television]]

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