Passing on the torch?

[trythil]

Not really sure if it's so much "passing on the torch" or just meme propagation.

I think what's going on is that people gradually learn that the advice your old friend gave you is really the right thing to do, just like how Mom always said you should eat your vegetables*. Eventually you realize why it's a good idea, but the intervening years just go by without any damage, so you just ignore that advice.

Your other friends, however, see you noshing away at really glossy candy bars and stuff, so they all join in a little later than you, and thus does behavior propagate.

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*According to Super Size Me this isn't actually true anymore, but if you're not a US citizen and/or are a Gen-X/Yer (1970s-1980s or so), you might still be able to relate to this.

[Enigma]

Not really sure if it's so much "passing on the torch" or just meme propagation.

I think what's going on is that people gradually learn that the advice your old friend gave you is really the right thing to do, just like how Mom always said you should eat your vegetables*. Eventually you realize why it's a good idea, but the intervening years just go by without any damage, so you just ignore that advice.

Your other friends, however, see you noshing away at really glossy candy bars and stuff, so they all join in a little later than you, and thus does behavior propagate.

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*According to Super Size Me this isn't actually true anymore, but if you're not a US citizen and/or are a Gen-X/Yer (1970s-1980s or so), you might still be able to relate to this.

Genious

[mexicanjunior]

Not that anyone is taking any of my ideas and expanding on them but I am more than willing to pass the torch to the new generation...

[Fall_Child42]

I had the torch passed to me by suberunker at AWA 2003.

I believe he said something around the lines of "Keep comedy alive"

Well it IS still alive.
Doing SCIENCE and still alive.

[Fall_Child42]

I had the torch passed to me by suberunker at AWA 2003.

I believe he said something around the lines of "Keep comedy alive"

Well it IS still alive.
Doing SCIENCE and still alive.

AWA 2006.

Whoops.

[Bauzi]

Caster, I totally see where you are coming from, and I feel much the same way. Things just aren't the same as they were when I started out. But it's not the community that's changed, its me who's changed. A lot of the people I knew back then just aren't around anymore. In some ways it feels like the soul of the community is gone, like there is no one interesting here anymore, like I am nearly alone.
But it's my own fault. There are a ton of interesting people here now. I just don't know them. I haven't made an effort to know them. I haven't made an effort to stay involved. This used to be really important to me, but now, not so much. It's me who has changed.

For me it was hard to see some of my friends leaving the .org. I really miss Greg for example and I just don't have the time to be in #amv or messangers every day. I have life you know? I just can't and that want to make new online friends all the time.

Of course we pass the torch one day. Do you think that this will go forever? People move on. That's how it is.

People change and hobbies change.

[Nya-chan Production]

Theres got to be something wrong with whoever DOESN'T get less and less interested in anime as they get older.

Some of us never had a childhood.

Some of us will never grow up.

I will never grow up *pouts*

[Panky]

I started making my first AMV, mmhh, a few months before I created this account (So, let's say July). I started trying to make something work, I really wanted to make it. My first AMV, made with Adobe Premiere Pro, like all the other ones, had the a fade-to-black using contrast to its max level instead of turning to 0 the opacity (haha, some of you might laugh your ass off with this, I did). But anyway, I keep considering that my first AMV was the best out of all of them. When I finished it, I started making others, but not with the same inspiration I had with the first one. Even though I was getting better with the editing effects and the program itself, none could make it work well, anyway. I believe I had a preference of effects over the sense of the AMV itself, which is just the opposite of an idea I had for the first AMV, that turned out to be the best of those I made. After that, I left for some time, came back, and left again for some other time.
You don't have to force things out, else, things like these will happen. Even if I didn't FORCE it as it could be said, I took kind of a wrong path. But now these days that I have time, maybe I'll come back to editing a few videos.

[guardiansoulblade]

I really don't know if I like, My Generation of AMVers. They seem to have this notion that it's not a good AMV if it's not overly plastered in effects and not made in Sony Vegas.

[Kitsuner]

I really don't know if I like, My Generation of AMVers. They seem to have this notion that it's not a good AMV if it's not overly plastered in effects and not made in Sony Vegas.

That's true, it feels like Vegas has become more popular than Premiere with a lot of newer editors.