Ileia wrote:Castor Troy wrote:People got lives.
This is something that is mentioned every time this sort of topic comes up. It's not that everyone stopped editing. Sure, a lot of people did. But guess what? They were replaced by new editors, there is a constant stream of them! They're just not flocking here anymore. It's not AMVs that are dying, it is this specific community.
Castor Troy wrote:When all the youtube amv editors begin losing their accounts like I did, they'll come over here.




Cutfilm Toventngsilver wrote:Keep making vids you wanna make. Just don't expect everyone to like them, you'll be sorely disappointed.
seasons wrote:And surely more people are making AMVs now then ever before, right?
Brad wrote:seasons wrote:And surely more people are making AMVs now then ever before, right?
I don't know if that's really true. My guess is probably not. I mean, from the perspective of the number of people simply on the internet, having access to the tech, etc., you would think that that would be true. But I think it probably has a lot to do with the current state of the anime industry, which you can't argue has been in a big decline since 2005-6 era (at least in the United States. I can't speak much to Japan). I know that there's still a ton of people watching fansubs, watching stuff on Netflix/Hulu/Crunchy Roll/etc., but on the whole, it SEEMS like anime fandom was much higher during that era. Again, this is all based on speculation of somebody who hasn't really been into anime since that time, but all I ever seem to hear about the actual industry here is how it's doing worse and worse each year, as opposed to it thriving (relatively) back then. Could be a correlation there.
BasharOfTheAges wrote:Brad wrote:seasons wrote:And surely more people are making AMVs now then ever before, right?
I don't know if that's really true. My guess is probably not. I mean, from the perspective of the number of people simply on the internet, having access to the tech, etc., you would think that that would be true. But I think it probably has a lot to do with the current state of the anime industry, which you can't argue has been in a big decline since 2005-6 era (at least in the United States. I can't speak much to Japan). I know that there's still a ton of people watching fansubs, watching stuff on Netflix/Hulu/Crunchy Roll/etc., but on the whole, it SEEMS like anime fandom was much higher during that era. Again, this is all based on speculation of somebody who hasn't really been into anime since that time, but all I ever seem to hear about the actual industry here is how it's doing worse and worse each year, as opposed to it thriving (relatively) back then. Could be a correlation there.
I keep hearing sentiments that boil down to the idea that anime fandom in general is dying, and I wonder how it is that just about every large convention seems to pull in record numbers year after year despite this.
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