I was listening about them today on Opie and Jim Norton, TLC became the place people go to see freakshows. You used to be able to pay 50 cents to see them in a tent and thats how they made their money. PC people came around and said you cant do that, that is mean so then we couldn't do that any more. Then TLC came along and figured out that they can put freaks on tv and people will watch they just have to make it look like they aren't freaks and make it appear like you're going to learn something which you're not.  TL;DR TLC is where you go to point and laugh at freaks.