Whole thread = tl;dr. However I will throw in my 2 cents anyway. I can't say for 100% certainty that I will ever make another AMV. I haven't edited anything in close to 3 years, and quite honestly I just don't come up with video ideas anymore. I also just don't really watch that many videos anymore, and when I do I just don't get as impressed by them as I used to.
All that being said, here I am. I still check the forums every day and hang out in #amv pretty much all the time. A majority of my friends are AMV creators (online and IRL), many of which do still edit or plan to. For me, the Org is all about the people I've made connections with and that's about it. I will always hold a place in my heart for the hobby itself and I recognize that I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today career-wise if it wasn't for my involvement in the hobby, and I think several others could say the same thing.
So as far as it being an "addiction"? I certainly wouldn't go that far (for myself anyway). I'll stick with the community and this site for as long as I have friends that call this place home (in some way or another). I also don't see the hobby itself ever going away. I'm sure it'll continue to shrink and become more obscure, but it'll likely find a happy equilibrium where there's always a small subset of people still producing new videos and there'll always be people that enjoy watching them.






