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Postby godix » Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:41 am

I'm not sure the tube is a trend in the same way as the other trends mentioned. It's a distribution method not an actual difference in style or content of the videos. In years past the ramonesfans of the world came to the org. Now they go to the tube. Either way they're still making the same kind of videos they always were.

Personally I think it's a good thing. I have yet to see a good video on the tube that was not also on the org. I've seen many really bad videos on the tube that weren't on the org. So good riddance, I now have to sift through far less pure crap to get to the gems than I used to.

Also something else, I didn't quote all years. 2002 and earlier never broke the 10k mark. So what we're really seeing is a smallish fandom start, a huge spike, and now a return back to the levels it used to be. Which makes sense if you consider that anime became the popular in thing around then and now is slowly fading from the mainstream.

I don't think this means the 'eras' are over though. Things always change. Someday we'll look back and go 'remember when Naruto action vids used to be overdone?' kinda like how some of us now look back and go 'remember when everyone was sick of dancing vash and weird al?'. The declining # of vids doesn't mean the styles won't change. Hell, 2001 saw the start of several different, now common, styles and there were only 3857 videos released that year.
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Postby mexicanjunior » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:43 am

Do I get credit for ushering in the hentai era? :P
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Postby Castor Troy » Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:54 am

wtf were we all doing in 2007?
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Postby mexicanjunior » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:01 am

Castor Troy wrote:wtf were we all doing in 2007?


Not much...
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Postby Fall_Child42 » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:11 am

Fall_Child42 wrote:Someone please detail for this noob the history of Awesomecore videos. Is Awesomecore a recent trend? or have there been examples of awesomecore since the beginning?


I seriously want to know.
and since i really haven't been around for very long, Mabey some of you old people could give me examples...

I suppose Sail Away would qualify though.

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Postby godix » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:51 am

Fall_Child42 wrote:
Fall_Child42 wrote:Someone please detail for this noob the history of Awesomecore videos. Is Awesomecore a recent trend? or have there been examples of awesomecore since the beginning?


I seriously want to know.
and since i really haven't been around for very long, Mabey some of you old people could give me examples...

I suppose Sail Away would qualify though.

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Postby JudgeHolden » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:55 am

03 Aug 2002: The domination of godix began. Many lives have been lost and families torn apart in the struggle.
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Postby Sukunai » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:39 pm

I see music videos as being 4 groupings

Pre MTV fad where all you got was video of a concert. Ok but boring.

The 80s and everything was the hairdo and make up. Mostly artificial looking.

The 90s, and suddenly the 80s actually looked good somehow.

2000 and anime replaces normal mainstream music videos.

Ok maybe it's more about how "I" saw it :)

But as I see it, amvs were greatly improved once more people had access to better source material once anime went past vhs. Because all the editing software in the world won't make rotten source content look great.

And then there is the same limitation you get in literature. There's only so many possible ideas after all. Eventually all you have left, is do the same idea, but with a more recent anime. So it's the same idea, but new show, maybe slightly different tune, but same original notion.

Hey, a fan service comical notion video is eventually only about panties and boobs. It doesn't matter what anime you use, in the end, it's just bouncing breasts and undies.

And no matter how clever the effects look, eventually there's a limit to how many ways you can slice up an image and reassemble it. Strobe effects always come out about the same (hard on the eyes).

I'm usually only really impressed when the song, and the video, and the effects are not what made you stand up and take notice.
For instance, a complete waste of 6 minutes and 35 seconds (yes I know, that's not verbatim, but you know the film I mean so why worry), is in my opinion a great example of a good gag amv. I love getting people to watch it, and then telling them they were such and such number victim I had made watch it :)

A great amv is like great art. It takes a great artist to make them. In any "era" there will only be a few actually great ones. But there will always be a lot of schlock.
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Postby Kevmaster » Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:56 pm

AMV's getting sucky.

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Postby Pwolf » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:22 pm

There are only two "eras" in amvs... THe first one was the beginning and the second began in January 2000...


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Postby JaddziaDax » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:27 pm

godix wrote:I have yet to see a good video on the tube that was not also on the org.


I actually have, and the reason she didn't want to distro on the org is because she didn't want anyone to "steal her clips".....

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Postby dwchang » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:29 pm

Pwolf wrote:There are only two "eras" in amvs... THe first one was the beginning and the second began in January 2000...


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This is the only true part I've seen in the entire thread. I motion this thread be locked since there can be nothing more of significance that can be added.

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Postby JaddziaDax » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:31 pm

Kevmaster wrote:AMV's getting sucky.

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no they always have been sucky, you're just getting disillusioned :/
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Postby Kevmaster » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:32 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:
Kevmaster wrote:AMV's getting sucky.

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no they always have been sucky, you're just getting disillusioned :/


no, I still like Videos from the old days. But the "new editing trends" are sucky.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:46 pm

Kevmaster wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:
Kevmaster wrote:AMV's getting sucky.

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no they always have been sucky, you're just getting disillusioned :/


no, I still like Videos from the old days. But the "new editing trends" are sucky.


what like seizurriffic videos?
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