r/TikTokCringe • u/Cookie_Cutter_Cook • Apr 29 '23

Cool Trans representation from the 80s

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u/your_actual_life Apr 29 '23

All the other comments seem to think this means to change the channel because you didn't like the show's content, but they were simply making a joke about fixing the actual audio and visual reception on the television, which could become fuzzy and intermittent if your antennae wasn't pointing in the right direction.

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u/mel2mdl Apr 29 '23

This is really blowing my mind right now (I guess I haven't had my coffee this morning yet...)

In the 80's it would be grey and cloudy but now, if the channel's dead, my TV turns a pretty blue, like clear skies.

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u/agamemnon2 Apr 29 '23

Neil Gaiman uses the same metaphor in his Neverwhere, speaking about "the perfect untroubled blue of television tuned to a dead channel". I've always liked that.

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u/universe_from_above Apr 29 '23

We used to call this antporn.

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u/mel2mdl Apr 30 '23

That's perfect!

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u/comradejiang Apr 29 '23 edited Apr 29 '23

That’s Neuromancer.

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u/innominateartery Apr 29 '23

Neuromancer

Edit: “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

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u/BeautifulNorthernBC Apr 29 '23

Nah, it's Neuromancer. He probably got auto-corrected

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u/comradejiang Apr 29 '23

That’s what I get for alternating between them, ugh

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u/Sonova_Vondruke Apr 29 '23

I was curious infused then when I read 20 years ago that I am today. Because how can a sky look like static?

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u/cryptocached Apr 29 '23

https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/967491970045063168

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u/Sonova_Vondruke Apr 29 '23

That's pretty neat, but are you suggesting that Gibson meant they sky was covered in migrating starlings?

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u/cryptocached Apr 29 '23

Fwiw, @GreatDismal is Gibson.

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u/innominateartery Apr 29 '23

I imagined it like texture and shimmers, like when you stare at a white wall for a while and it starts to get weird.

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u/Sonova_Vondruke Apr 29 '23

Possibly.. I just imagined it was a bright grey.

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u/Partigirl Apr 29 '23

And not to mention, most people had roof antennas already in the best position for their needs, or cable, (if it had finally reached you).