I was watching a show on MTV called Made the other day. I realized that during the show, I felt really upset and couldn’t figure out why. Then I realized, MTV is slowly, yet surely, sucking the living creativity out of its viewers.

The show in a nutshell: MTV takes a teenager who has their own unique, goofy personality and changes them “for the better.” But in my opinion, MTV is just warping the minds of the creative souls who just want to be accepted by their peers. This show is telling me that I have to turn myself into the generic popular kid so that the impressionable idiots who watch MTV will think I’m cool. Because that’s what matters in life, right? Being cool, making sure the people around you think your fashionable and charismatic? Am I right?



Another show that makes me want to throw up all over myself is Laguna Beach. I

know that about ¾ of the people that I know probably watch this show but I just want to gauge my eyes out with a flaming stick every time I see even a commercial for that show. I really have trouble understanding the concept behind that show.

I’m a little skeptical as to whether it is actually a reality show or a scripted drama. I don’t know and frankly, I don’t care enough to find out. But when I watch that show, I really just feel bad. Just bad. Because I know there are teenage girls somewhere in the country trying to be like those girls on the show. It makes me mad that MTV is trying to give this as the perfect image. It may be the perfect image, but it isn’t the only one.

For as long as I can remember, people have been telling me to be myself. They have been spewing the same words into my face forever. “Who cares what other people think?” And I don’t. I don’t care if you think I’m cool. Or if I like all the latest bands. As far as I can tell, I’m the only one who really doesn’t mind if people think I’m weird.

If you ask a typical teenager if they care what people think about them, they will probably say that they don’t. Yet, they dress like everyone else. They listen to music they don’t really like to make other people happy. And God forbid, especially in this school, you don’t like sports! But I guess it’s a good thing that I don’t like the same things everybody else does. I guess it’s a good thing that I’m called weird on a daily basis.

However, I have known I was weird for a while. I figured it out around the time I realized that the other kids weren’t speaking in different accents at school. I admit it, I’m weird, off- key, and a little creepy at times, but at least I’m not like everybody else. And I’m happy that people recognize my uniqueness, even if it’s sometimes looked down upon.

So please, stop watching MTV. Try not to make Arrowhead look even more like a robot factory than it already does.