“FNMTV” Reruns Further Proof That You Can Make An Acronym Mean Anything These Days

noah | June 18, 2008 4:30 am

So right now MTV, in its newfound commitment to playing at least four full-length music videos per week, is running a “remixed” version of the Pete Wentz music-video mission FNMTV, as it did on Monday and Tuesday around this time. This edition is apparently a “reviews”-centric version of the show, where the featured videos take up about 2/3 of the screen and the real focus is the user-generated reactions to each video being aired. (MTV has been desperately begging its users to grab their cameras and talk or dance in response to each clip on its Web site, and it would appear that at least a few people have gobbled up the 15-seconds-of-fame bait. Including Ultragrrrl! An example is below.)

So what you have is basically multiple airings of the same four videos that aired Friday (in full and abbreviated, and surrounded by MTV News bits and brief clips of a few other videos), only now they’re sung along with, danced along with, or reviewed by people who are divided into “haters” and “lovers” based on their commentary. And before you say “wait, if it’s airing on a Wednesday afternoon, does that mean that MTV has given up the whole illusion that ‘FN’ really stands for ‘Friday night?'” I should let you know that according to the show’s bumpers, the “FN” in this user-generated instance actually means “feedback/new.” No, really. I mean, words, right? They’re so hilarious!

FNMTV [Official site]

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