Watching spectacularly bad TV shows for the sheer pleasure of mocking them with your friends is not new -- remember Mystery Science Theater 3000 mocking bad movies? -- but the advent of social media may have turned it into a sport for a small group of TV viewers. Now there's a term for it, "hate watching" and the occasional #hatewatching hashtag, to boot.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Is ?hate watching? a new social TV sport?
Watching spectacularly bad TV shows for the sheer pleasure of mocking them with your friends is not new -- remember Mystery Science Theater 3000 mocking bad movies? -- but the advent of social media may have turned it into a sport for a small group of TV viewers. Now there's a term for it, "hate watching" and the occasional #hatewatching hashtag, to boot.
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