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0nsen
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Will do. Language barrier isn't really an issue, else I wouldn't be watching Chinese cartoons, so thanks. (Viruses,.. the last one I got was on a floppy disk and I'm running an outdated browser since at least 2010.)
Well, this sucks. What's even the point if you can't share/watch pom-AMVs? |
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RadicalYue
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lol, that's just what YOU agree to post. There are a fair amount of bouncing boobs and some "classic" HMVs on there. |
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0nsen
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If I'm registering, of course I would want to upload my own AMVs, too. That's the point, isn't it?
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RadicalYue
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Well, posting in regards to text based. Not AMV based. They take HMVs. |
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0nsen
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They do? Excellent. Then I'll explore that site more. Next week.
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xstylus
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That's not what the article meant to say, and certainly not at all what I had written to Justin. He did have to shorten and re-parse it for brevity which I don't fault him for, but perhaps the point might have gotten minced a bit. You and I agree that, basically, AMVs are thriving. Massively so. The community has splintered a bit, but that's healthy and can partly be attributed to how the community continues to grow. It's too large and varied for one place. I do stand by my opinion that -- for fans who don't live and breathe AMVs like you and I -- comedy videos are the primary barometer of AMV community health to them. You and I both know that's total BS, but again, we're talking laypeople here. And indeed, there have been fewer AMVs that have gone viral enough to escape beyond the AMV community echo chambers the past couple years (as in the past two years, which I cynically think for some fans is like two decades), which may have given the reader an incorrect perception that the fad is fizzling out. My suggestion was for the reader to dig a bit deeper and look into some of those thriving AMV communities directly. |
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leafy sea dragon
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Heh, I see. People in AMV creation and AMV viewing are quick to leave elsewhere that they feel suits them better. What happens if no place is good enough for them? Do they start their own communities? (Here's a point of divergence between AMV fans and pinball fans: In pinball, there are only two major communities--Pinside and Tilt Forums--but they remain obscure despite collaborated efforts because 1) they have no idea how to reach out beyond their niche on a large scale, and 2) they don't realize not everyone can drop $5000 like it's no big deal.)
Thanks for the clarification. I saw a lot of videos back in the day on Newgrounds that were essentially AMVs in spirit, except they drew and animated everything from scratch and put it to music. How well the music was integrated varied dramatically though. I always appreciated the effort, as most of them were spot-on in their character design and general art style, even if they were limited by what Flash could do. (Obviously, because it was Flash, they weren't trying to pass it off as existing footage. Everyone knew it was original animation.) Needless to say, looking at these, they've evolved heavily in that aspect too. Video editing has evolved tremendously in the intervening time too though, so there's less of a reason to create new animation from scratch. The third one, in particular, is impressive because the original animation is indistinguishable from the reappropriated footage.
Reminds me of my time with Super Mario Maker. Considering there were so many one-word names for courses that weren't painfully obvious (like "Mario" or "Level") and such, to where drinking games have been made out of it, I think it stems from a general lack of thought into the title. Those stages tend to be pretty bad, though I don't know enough about AMVs to know if that's true for them too. Though I suppose the equivalent would be an AMV simply called "AMV" or "Footage" without any joke accompanying it, which I take is extremely rare to nonexistent.
Not even that...Unless you mean AMV fans who aren't superfans. I'm not an AMV person and I don't really see AMVs unless it's placed in front of me, and I can say that, outside of conventions, I don't see any discussions of AMVs at all when I get into anime-related discussions. But that might just be my own perception, colored by how everyone I know who is an anime fan has no interest in AMVs and wouldn't have a reason to talk about them aside from a "Remember the 90's/early 00's?" topic. |
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0nsen
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I, too, had that perception. The last noteworthy AMV I saw was, before the topic came up here, from 2006. I assumed AMV making died somewhere around 2007. Together with the great site YouTube used to be before Google bought it in late 2006. |
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