Had friends in college that loved to watch that stuff, I hated it!!
I, on the other hand watched more intellectual stuff like MST3K when it came on at night.
The soap operas were more like “as my stomach turns” but would have watched them if Rifftrax were doing them.
We watched General Hospital at college during beginning of the Luke and Laura relationship. There were a number of interesting characters on the show at the time - Luke Spencer, his sister Bobbie who was a good villainess, and Tristan Rogers and Emma Samms playing Robert Scorpio and his wife Holly.