How important are amvs to you now compared to back then?

[KingRoyMustang]

At my case:

When I was younger, amvs seemed random first, but when the law forbidding anime came, I started to love them, since they were my only conection to the anime. Now in this days even with all the new duties amvs still seem funny for me and a way to relax after the stress. Too bad I only have 3 months left to make all my stuff and then vanish

Hey, could you please tell me about laws forbidding anime in Honduras? I searched it but I couldn't find anything.

[lloyd9988]

AMVs are pretty important to me because I absolutely love making them. I rarely go a month without either releasing a video, or at least uploading something to youtube. And during the summer, I prioritize having a video ready for AWA and NYAF. And I usually send a Disney MEP track to Otakon.

And in terms of watching AMVs, I go the the AMV Announcement forum multiple times every single day. Every year, I need to have about 250+ new AMVs downloaded to show at MomoCon, so I essentially spend all year trying to make that quota.

You remind me of my younger days...

I AM your younger days

[TritioAFB]

At my case:

When I was younger, amvs seemed random first, but when the law forbidding anime came, I started to love them, since they were my only conection to the anime. Now in this days even with all the new duties amvs still seem funny for me and a way to relax after the stress. Too bad I only have 3 months left to make all my stuff and then vanish

Hey, could you please tell me about laws forbidding anime in Honduras? I searched it but I couldn't find anything.

OFFTOPIC: Actually if you try searching them you're not going to find anything in the web. I tried searching for one group of links too but all of them are gone. The politicians now accept it was one of those mistakes in laws that shouldn't have never happened. Everything started with the murder of several people before Christmas day, they were travelling in bus and were shooted.
Obviously all the authors were arrested, but several of them were young people. So when the time to declare about their guilt came, they started to blame the society, stuff like that, mentioned stuff like we live in a violent society 'I always wanted to do this like in movies and animes, etc'

By that time, the only anime that was broadcasted was mainly violent one. The whole country was horrorized with that murder (34 people murdered in that incident), so they started reinforcing the police by that time, also thanks to a newspaper I really hate (It supported the activity from the 2009 incident), anime popularity was going down, since a report that newspaper made gave the anime an image of 'the most evil thing in earth or the most perverted thing in earth', so obviosuly thanks to the culture of my country, anime was devil, nor to mention that some suicides in that year were made since the guys wrote they felt 'possesed' while watching anime.

So in December 2003, the law was promoted. Originally the purpose of the law was to 'regulate' every violent content broadcasted in Tv, Radio, or the News, but corruption always comes, so movies were saved (The owners of big channels couldn't afford to lose them thanks to this law), The News didn't follow it (There's even one Newspaper we like to call: The Newspaper of the Dead, since that's all what it's about), and so anime 'was' the only responsable of all that violence

Now, the reason why many people here don't remember it or even don't know about it was because it was well made as an excuse to take down the anime, and since people don't care about it, it's like the law never existed. All people that were involved with anime were consider criminals, like anybody having some weed with them. Internet was also affected for this law so it wasn't like there was a plan B.

Ironically that's the reason why I started to love amvs: When anime was there in Tv, I just saw them as a random thing, when the anime was gone I started to appreciate them.

Perhaps now you can see why I hate politicians, I mean :facepalm:

When the law was removed back by the end of 2007, freedom returned for internet, but all the people still qualified anime as devil, nor that they mention that it was a thing 'for kids'
Thanks I met several Otakus here so we started to organize the anime fests (equivalent of the anime conventions) so that people could meet a different perspective of the anime. The Japan's embassy even helped us in the last anime fest and even though we started with less than 100 guys, the last fest was like 800, I'll organize the last one I'll appear in anime fests soon, so I just can't find myself away from amvs in this moment, after everything I've passed.

My new duties in the hospital requires all my free time so I can't really see myself editing after the first 3 months of this year, but that doesn't mean I'll leave the site since I can't still watch them

[Kitsuner]

At my case:

When I was younger, amvs seemed random first, but when the law forbidding anime came, I started to love them, since they were my only conection to the anime. Now in this days even with all the new duties amvs still seem funny for me and a way to relax after the stress. Too bad I only have 3 months left to make all my stuff and then vanish

Hey, could you please tell me about laws forbidding anime in Honduras? I searched it but I couldn't find anything.

OFFTOPIC: Actually if you try searching them you're not going to find anything in the web. I tried searching for one group of links too but all of them are gone. The politicians now accept it was one of those mistakes in laws that shouldn't have never happened. Everything started with the murder of several people before Christmas day, they were travelling in bus and were shooted.
Obviously all the authors were arrested, but several of them were young people. So when the time to declare about their guilt came, they started to blame the society, stuff like that, mentioned stuff like we live in a violent society 'I always wanted to do this like in movies and animes, etc'

By that time, the only anime that was broadcasted was mainly violent one. The whole country was horrorized with that murder (34 people murdered in that incident), so they started reinforcing the police by that time, also thanks to a newspaper I really hate (It supported the activity from the 2009 incident), anime popularity was going down, since a report that newspaper made gave the anime an image of 'the most evil thing in earth or the most perverted thing in earth', so obviosuly thanks to the culture of my country, anime was devil, nor to mention that some suicides in that year were made since the guys wrote they felt 'possesed' while watching anime.

So in December 2003, the law was promoted. Originally the purpose of the law was to 'regulate' every violent content broadcasted in Tv, Radio, or the News, but corruption always comes, so movies were saved (The owners of big channels couldn't afford to lose them thanks to this law), The News didn't follow it (There's even one Newspaper we like to call: The Newspaper of the Dead, since that's all what it's about), and so anime 'was' the only responsable of all that violence

Now, the reason why many people here don't remember it or even don't know about it was because it was well made as an excuse to take down the anime, and since people don't care about it, it's like the law never existed. All people that were involved with anime were consider criminals, like anybody having some weed with them. Internet was also affected for this law so it wasn't like there was a plan B.

Ironically that's the reason why I started to love amvs: When anime was there in Tv, I just saw them as a random thing, when the anime was gone I started to appreciate them.

Perhaps now you can see why I hate politicians, I mean :facepalm:

When the law was removed back by the end of 2007, freedom returned for internet, but all the people still qualified anime as devil, nor that they mention that it was a thing 'for kids'
Thanks I met several Otakus here so we started to organize the anime fests (equivalent of the anime conventions) so that people could meet a different perspective of the anime. The Japan's embassy even helped us in the last anime fest and even though we started with less than 100 guys, the last fest was like 800, I'll organize the last one I'll appear in anime fests soon, so I just can't find myself away from amvs in this moment, after everything I've passed.

My new duties in the hospital requires all my free time so I can't really see myself editing after the first 3 months of this year, but that doesn't mean I'll leave the site since I can't still watch them

The radio said “No, John. You are the demons” And then John was a zombie.

[KingRoyMustang]

At my case:

When I was younger, amvs seemed random first, but when the law forbidding anime came, I started to love them, since they were my only conection to the anime. Now in this days even with all the new duties amvs still seem funny for me and a way to relax after the stress. Too bad I only have 3 months left to make all my stuff and then vanish

Hey, could you please tell me about laws forbidding anime in Honduras? I searched it but I couldn't find anything.

OFFTOPIC: Actually if you try searching them you're not going to find anything in the web. I tried searching for one group of links too but all of them are gone. The politicians now accept it was one of those mistakes in laws that shouldn't have never happened. Everything started with the murder of several people before Christmas day, they were travelling in bus and were shooted.
Obviously all the authors were arrested, but several of them were young people. So when the time to declare about their guilt came, they started to blame the society, stuff like that, mentioned stuff like we live in a violent society 'I always wanted to do this like in movies and animes, etc'

By that time, the only anime that was broadcasted was mainly violent one. The whole country was horrorized with that murder (34 people murdered in that incident), so they started reinforcing the police by that time, also thanks to a newspaper I really hate (It supported the activity from the 2009 incident), anime popularity was going down, since a report that newspaper made gave the anime an image of 'the most evil thing in earth or the most perverted thing in earth', so obviosuly thanks to the culture of my country, anime was devil, nor to mention that some suicides in that year were made since the guys wrote they felt 'possesed' while watching anime.

So in December 2003, the law was promoted. Originally the purpose of the law was to 'regulate' every violent content broadcasted in Tv, Radio, or the News, but corruption always comes, so movies were saved (The owners of big channels couldn't afford to lose them thanks to this law), The News didn't follow it (There's even one Newspaper we like to call: The Newspaper of the Dead, since that's all what it's about), and so anime 'was' the only responsable of all that violence

Now, the reason why many people here don't remember it or even don't know about it was because it was well made as an excuse to take down the anime, and since people don't care about it, it's like the law never existed. All people that were involved with anime were consider criminals, like anybody having some weed with them. Internet was also affected for this law so it wasn't like there was a plan B.

Ironically that's the reason why I started to love amvs: When anime was there in Tv, I just saw them as a random thing, when the anime was gone I started to appreciate them.

Perhaps now you can see why I hate politicians, I mean :facepalm:

When the law was removed back by the end of 2007, freedom returned for internet, but all the people still qualified anime as devil, nor that they mention that it was a thing 'for kids'
Thanks I met several Otakus here so we started to organize the anime fests (equivalent of the anime conventions) so that people could meet a different perspective of the anime. The Japan's embassy even helped us in the last anime fest and even though we started with less than 100 guys, the last fest was like 800, I'll organize the last one I'll appear in anime fests soon, so I just can't find myself away from amvs in this moment, after everything I've passed.

My new duties in the hospital requires all my free time so I can't really see myself editing after the first 3 months of this year, but that doesn't mean I'll leave the site since I can't still watch them

Thanks for that post it was really informative and don't worry everybody hates fear mongering politicians.

[Castor Troy]

AMVs are pretty important to me because I absolutely love making them. I rarely go a month without either releasing a video, or at least uploading something to youtube. And during the summer, I prioritize having a video ready for AWA and NYAF. And I usually send a Disney MEP track to Otakon.

And in terms of watching AMVs, I go the the AMV Announcement forum multiple times every single day. Every year, I need to have about 250+ new AMVs downloaded to show at MomoCon, so I essentially spend all year trying to make that quota.

You remind me of my younger days...

I AM your younger days

My less fat days.

[TritioAFB]

You made my day with that comment Kit hahahahaha

[Knowname]

nah but once WMM became RELEVANT it took all the fun out of it and every Tom Dick and Hairy could 'edit'

[ZephyrStar]

AMVs are still very important to me for a lot of reasons.

-Personally I edit because I would get an idea I thought was too good to not do it. I'll probably always have those ideas.

-I enjoy watching videos that break the boundaries, or have original creative content. I think we'll continue to see these in the future, so I'll keep watching! I can say that I used to download/watch videos a lot more than I do now, but that's only because I'm trying to focus my free time into my own projects.

-Remix culture is a fantastic culture, so many different interests are represented. It's also fascinating to watch people blend things that don't go together and make them work. People will continue to do this and I will continue to be astounded.

-I will always be pro-art and anti-copyright. Even if that means my own legitimate productions get remixed. I'll be happy to see that happen. As artists, we also have to fight the good fight against things like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA.

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-I've moved beyond focusing my time solely on remix and am now working on 100% original stuff. This makes AMVs even more important to me as I will undoubtedly get tunnel vision and burn out if I don't stop and do fun projects from time to time. Things like the Anthology.

-I'll always remix, till the day I go to AMV heaven.

[Chez]

Originally back when I thought WMM was the end alll be all of editing and AMVS filled up all of my free time they were pretty important I would say that was 2005-2007. The thousands of crap videos on youtube aside eventuallly after taking some classes and figuring out what I enjoyed about creating amvs and spent less time creating them and more time practicing and watching videos seeing what I liked about the remix culture.

2008 found the org and posted my first AE touched up video which was a horrible copy pasta andrew kramer tutorial. Realized that I still had some work to do and did some small things here and there. Jumped on board a few MEPs and never really released another big video until 2010.

I am still always experimenting with certain things so even though I don't make as much like when I first started out I feel that they are more important to me know then they ever were before.