MTV simply pulled the plug on its MTV Information web site, taking down twenty years of content material.
Now, if you happen to attempt to entry MTV Information articles on mtvnews.com or mtv.com/information, you’re despatched straight to the principle MTV web site.
Hundreds of articles and interviews with main artists, courting again to 1996, are gone.
Together with its greatest lack of its epic hip-hop archives, particularly the “Mixtape Monday” column from the 2000s and 2010s, which featured interviews and opinions with artists and producers early of their careers.
Social media is buzzing with upset followers and former MTV Information staffers. Everybody’s feeling the lack of an enormous piece of music historical past. Tweets and posts are filled with disappointment and nostalgia for the articles that captured iconic moments in music and popular culture.
Some hope the Wayback Machine may need saved MTV Information articles, however older items aren’t displaying up there both.
For now, the shutdown leaves an enormous hole within the historical past of music journalism. Let’s hope a few of this worthwhile content material finds its approach again on-line sometime.
How a lot wouldn’t it price to place it again up? I’m so critical. There needs to be any individual who can afford to keep up MTV Information. Or a solution to crowd fund to take action 😕😕😕
— ladidai (@ladidaix) 🤠 peep lincolnbio (@ladidaix) June 24, 2024
MTV Information’ writers deserved higher than to have their work disappear. So did the readers and researchers who would profit from this work being obtainable. Music journalism erasure is a loss for the cultures we cowl. What stays, and the place it has pivoted, can not make up for that.
— I’m Gary (@imgarysuarez) June 25, 2024
it is morally unconscionable. blame congress. digital archival and the general public search thereof as a human proper.
— warrbo (@warrbo) June 25, 2024
That is disgraceful. They’ve utterly wiped the MTV Information archive. Many years of popular culture historical past analysis materials gone, and why? https://t.co/xJQRXrNERS
— Brian Hiatt (@hiattb) June 24, 2024
Wiping a information model and its full archive from existence is deleting historic data, with MTV Information that’s a long time of music & youth tradition historical past. An enormous loss to society, future analysis and devastatingly merciless to journalists who instantly don’t have any document of all their onerous work
— Jillian Sederholm (@JillianSed) June 25, 2024
I actually hope that the MTVNEWS archives come again so that folks can not less than save their work and any individual can archive it on one other web site as a result of that’s nonetheless blowing my thoughts even hours later
— ⚜️Sovereign⚜️ (@sauvamemte) June 25, 2024
sickening (derogatory) to see your entire @mtvnews archive wiped from the web. a long time of music historical past gone…together with some very early k-pop tales.
— Crystal Bell (@crystalbell) June 24, 2024
MTV Information actually has all of that capsuled footage and interviews
— daij (@JumpsForJoyy) June 24, 2024
This MTV Information archive is making me consider streaming providers and whether or not all these reveals and flicks will disappear into the ether when streaming dies. What occurs to the popular culture archives when local weather change or political points or tech conglomerates change once more?
— Dr. Unicorn the Indefatigable (@DrAriaHalliday) June 24, 2024
I can not start to let you know how upsetting that is. Years of fine music journalism simply wiped away. Each journalist who ever labored there deserves higher than this. I did not even assume to archive the article I wrote for MTV Information. https://t.co/KXIWneDafU
— Natasha S.C Mulenga🇿🇲🇬🇧 (@SampaTasha) June 24, 2024
I nonetheless can’t imagine the MTV Information archives are gone. I actually tried to fact-check with one among their articles immediately and that’s how I discovered the location received wiped. We lose a lot when essential cultural reporting is misplaced to the web abyss and the powers that be.
— IAMNJERA (@IAMNJERA) June 25, 2024
WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR WIPING MTV NEWS ARCHIVES!!?!??! that is fucking wack as fuck!
— GeniusJulius (@juliusstukesjr) June 25, 2024
MTV NEWS being deleted is actually a brand new age burning of the musical and popular culture Library of Alexandria. And for what? For Viacom to save lots of a pair schmeckles, capitalism is a scourge on society
— Sterlz (@IAm_Sterling) June 25, 2024
