What is Japanese television like?

>>212201288 (OP)
From my experience it was a lot of travel channel type things done on a public access budgets, lots of cut aways of people putting things in their faces and saying it's delicious, also all of the media we consume now on things like YouTube Shorts or TikTok with the captions all over the screen is directly influenced by Japanese or maybe just Asian television in general.

Weird. Gay. Lots of variety shows where boybands and girl groups react to wacky Jap shit, you can imagine it.

I don’t know nigga I hate this world nigga I can’t believe this is my one life nigga and I have to hate everything

>>212201409
A lot of their comedy seems to be poking fun at homosexuality, it's very vaudevillian.

>>212201473
They love two man Abbott and Costello style shit where one is witless and the other just abuses him, I feel like if I was a Jap I'd find it hilarious

>>212201388
any idea what all the text is about?

>>212201288 (OP)
>tons of variety shows with lowtier celebs reacting to food
>korean dramas
>japanese dramas
>lots of news programmes
>some comedy gems like suidown and yofukashi
>tons of music shows pushing whatever new stars

>>212201740
It's to inform the viewer of the person or characters intentions or true feelings they usually pop up when someone is lying or putting on airs about something
Or in those Wipeout/MXC style shows the captions are meant to express how badly the person eats shit or hurts themselves

>>212201288 (OP)

>>212201740
>>212201899
I've seen shows there that were talk shows and it just looked like captions to me, but loud and in the center of the screen. It was very distracting. It seemed like most of the programming when I lived there was either talk shows in studios or on the road travel logs about Japan.

>>212202492

Is gaki no tsukai still a thing? I used to watch a lot of no laughing shit back in the day