By 2002, longtime viewers of MTV2 were complaining that the channel was no longer airing obscure and lost music videos as it had done when it was still M2, the name given to the channel from 1996 to 1999.
By 2002, viewers of MTV2 were unhappy with the channel's programming because it had changed its focus away from airing obscure and forgotten music videos, a practice that was more common when it was known as M2, which ran from 1996 to 1999.