The original post: /r/television by /u/Expensive-Elk-9406 on 2025-06-30 14:21:19.

Some of them (The Young and the Restless, General Hospital, Day of our Lives) have around 15,000 episodes, going on for more than some of their current viewers have been alive, and the episodes are hours long. My question is, what’s the appeal and how are their still viewers of them?