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And you're that american, probably.
OP is probably Indian or at least from a Hindi speaking household.
As another commenter here pointed out the show in the bottom left is M.A.D. (music, art, and dance). It was produced in India and originally in Hindi, starting in 2005. I can't find any information about international syndication for that show but it would have been weird for it to be on TV in the US at that time.
The Richie Rich cartoon in the top right first aired in the US from 1982-84 according to IMDB. I can't be certain if there were repeats (or "reruns") of it shown in the US but if there were its unlikely to have been a big part of kids' childhoods in the mid '00s. One thing I did find was a bunch of Hindi dubs of the show when I searched "Richie Rich India" so its more likely a Hindi language channel would have been broadcasting those dubs around the time that M.A.D. was on the air.
Rahul is also a popular name in India and the username Rahuliy is probably some variation of that.
Don't get me wrong I understand the frustration around the US centric nature of a lot of platforms and some of the communities here on Lemmy but that probably isn't the case here.
Takeshi's Castle is Japanese, kthx.
Right you are, Ken!
Ooh, that's gotta hurt!
Yes, and it was televised even in Germany. But that's not the point. The post is US defaultism par excellence, not because it depicts US-american TV shows but because it defaults to a US-american perspective and audience on an international platform.
for those of us who may have no idea what is going on here doing to being insufficiently old and/or american, how does it default to a us-american perspective?
Seems more like projection on your part, kiddo. 🫡
You must be fun at parties.
And I would bet that the original OP meant the American-dubbed version Most Extreme Elimination Challenge that was on TV in the early 2000s.
It's been dubbed and rebroadcast in a LOT of forms all over the world.
So have millions of other shows, but that doesn't change any of their origins, FFS.