Here are the winners of the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards. Wait: They’re still a thing?

To my surprise, I learned today that MTV held its Video Music Awards last night. I honestly had no idea, given that MTV doesn’t show music videos anymore. But, okay. Here’s a report.

• Taylor Swift won a lot of the awards. Shocking.
• There was a dedicated Swift Cam. She danced.
• A few other people won awards.
• Olivia Rodrigo’s set “collapsed” during her performance.
• The broadcast drew only 865,000 viewers on MTV in the US. Yes, less than a million viewers in a country of 330 million. That’s up 37% from last year, but it’s still miniscule. BEYOND miniscule. The MTV VMAs are no longer required viewing. They haven’t been for years.

That’s all I care to write about this.