Why are you here?

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:34 pm

seriously, why are you here, now, reading this, posting on the org? For some of you it may be simply be because you make amvs and have nothing better to do with your time. I'm asking what your real reason for being here is and if theres any real reason for coming here, to share it.

Personally, I found out about the place because of my interest in amvs, but I'd be lying if I said thats my real sole reason for being here. To be honest I had a lot of good times when I was younger (12, 13, 14) hanging out in stupid AOL anime chats, and I met a lot of extremely interesting people (and a few that I still keep in touch with to this day). However for a long time I'd been looking for an alternative to AOL's chats in hopes of getting rid of AOL for good. Plus after some weird incidents in early summer I wanted a better chat place than aol :/
in addition, I'd been on Doom9 for about 9 months and liked the forum atmosphere (however the strict one that surrounds doom9 gets gloomy every now and then). I had joined an anime wallpapers forum towards the beginning of summer looking for a good forum hang out.
Coincidentally with this stuff going on I ran into a-m-v.org's forum right before the switch to php (all i remember from the old forum was temjin talking about cailou, klinkys god thread, something about vcds, and that lady aeris freak). When the forum shut down, I found the chat room and found it a perfect replacement for the few aol chats I still visited. The new forum turned out to be a better homebase than the anime wallpaper place. It really fell together quite nicely. I soon realized how wonderfully insane people here were and decided to join in and here I am.
/serious post

EarthCurrent · Post by **EarthCurrent** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:38 pm

'Cause I'm supposed to be grading essays for my students, but they are all stupid and I feel weary reading their silly answers, so I come here to remind myself that it isn't just them, everyone is stupid so I shouldn't hold it against them.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:43 pm

To steal everybody's wallet. 8)

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:45 pm

im going to regret making this post just because its_so_lame but me and fyrt were reminiscing and it just made me think of why I ended up in this place to begin with
~_~

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:45 pm

Why am I here? Because I am needed. Why am I needed? Because I am here.

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:47 pm

It's a diversion from work, for one thing.

It's also interesting to see what a huge community has sprung up around AMVs. I remember a time when you'd have three or four videos in a contest, and there were three hotbeds of creativity: Dallas TX, California, and the southeast (namely me, Matt Murray, and Daric Jackson).

I recall a tremendous regionality as well...how there was a kick-ass AMV that played at AX, Metallica's "Enter Sandman" set to Iczer-1. Everyone said it was the shit. A year or two later, I finally saw it, and couldn't understand what the fuss was. It simply wasn't that great. (for one thing, the creator missed the most obvious cue point in the entire song: "Boom!" during the instrumental)

With this .org forum, I think a lot of that regionality has disappeared. Anyone can send their AMVs in, whether on tape or on disc, to any con that'll take them. There are entire programming tracks at big conventions devoted to AMVs.

It's been quite a trip.

tamashii · Post by **tamashii** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:49 pm

Its a long and twisted story that I will take with me to the grave.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 12:38 am

I've been making AMVs for four years and have been on the AMV mailing list all the time so I saw this website founded. took me a while but I finally decided to monitor the boards and so I started posting.

MistyCaldwell · Post by **MistyCaldwell** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 12:50 am

I have been musing around the internet for years but I never got into the chat/ml/forum thing. About the only time I have ever taken part in a chatroom conversation was the first time I stumbled into one in a college computer room with a friend of mine. There were people talking about car engines so I joined in...and they had no clue I was a girl...someone called me 'buddy'.

Last year around November though I was looking for amv's I'd caught at Otakon that year. I found this place though it looked quite different. I read the forums about a month before I joined. And when I did, I got initiated by leathelanime

and had no clue what he meant. All was forgiven long ago though.

For some reason, I got pulled in. I don't visit any other places other than online comics on a semi-daily basis. In fact, the org has probably been the only thing that really brings me online when I am bored. Otherwise I just play games on the comp.

SSJVegita0609 · Post by **SSJVegita0609** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 12:53 am

I was directed here by some guy named phlezk at DBG forums after he saw one of my OLS amvs. I was making em before I knew this place existed.