This Is Halloween: top 50 uploads of all time

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Re: This Is Halloween: top 50 uploads of all time

Post by seasons » Fri Oct 09, 2020 2:50 pm

10. [AMV] Soul Eater - This Is Halloween KARAOKE
uploaded by DragonmasterCale (October 28, 2015)
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AMV Soul Eater - This Is Halloween with Karaoke lyrics!

Original here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qztch...

Author of original:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HagarenGao

My friend kept asking for this at my karaoke costume party I have every year, so I finally added lyrics to it and figured I'd share with the rest of the internetz! Enjoy!
Possibly the worst cover of this song in the entire list, and I think that really says something.

I mean, it's kind of an achievement and much better than anything I think I could make if I'd had the tools and whatever training or practice that DragonmasterCale had. But it's just the ugliest blob of sounds I've ever heard in my life and I cannot imagine how anyone could sing along with this. But I hate karaoke so my opinion is kind of invalid here.

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Re: This Is Halloween: top 50 uploads of all time

Post by seasons » Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:06 pm

9. This Is Halloween- Soul Eater
uploaded by HollowDrawing (October 26, 2010)
18,058 views




There are only three other videos on this channel, Naruto and Death Note AMVs (all posted in October of 2010) that I haven't watched but can only presume are also reuploads. None have views anywhere close to the reupload of Hagaren Viper's video. Nothing to see here, but obviously striking while the iron was hot successfully steered some traffic to HD's channel that is still delivering views almost a decade later.

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Re: This Is Halloween: top 50 uploads of all time

Post by seasons » Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:08 pm

8. this is halloween ( soul eater) CREEPY
uploaded by GhostiiBiky (May 7, 2013)
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I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
this is halloween ( soul eater) SHITTY

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Re: This Is Halloween: top 50 uploads of all time

Post by seasons » Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:26 pm

7. Soul Eater AMV: "This is Halloween" Februus Metal Cover
uploaded by Evil Eye (March 17, 2012)
43,441 views



WARNING, I HAVE NO OWNERSHIP OVER THE SONGS OR THE VIDEO. I used the sarfios' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV7AzN...) video made by Hargaren Viper and tweaked it a lot to work with the two mixed versions of "This is Halloween" produced by Februus(http://www.youtube.com/user/februus).
Also the anime in the amv is Soul Eater. Here are links for the songs, the sarfios amv and the mix download.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw8pcxE6U9k
Songs: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO0amkJnARQ
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D668B3RzfAo
Download:http://www.mediafire.com/error.php?errn ... n=download
Over the course of exploring these reuploads, I'd have to say that nearly half of the versions of this AMV on YouTube swap out the original audio ("This is Halloween," covered by Marilyn Manson) for a different version of the song. Often, it is the original song from the film. Frequently, it is the Panic! At The Disco cover or some other cover by an unknown band featuring female vocals. Sometimes, it is a karaoke version with user-recorded vocals or no vocals at all. I haven't done an official count, but I think the most common track used in these audio substitutions is the one, and it's one of the most grating and worst-mixed pieces of music I've ever heard in my life.

Even with all the footnotes provided in the description to this upload, I'm still unclear on whether or not this is literally just two songs playing over the top of one another, or if they're arranged in some more creative but still awful-sounding fashion. Evil Eye cites both Hagaren Viper and the elusive "sarfios" as the creator of this AMV. Was sarfios the originator of this speaker-wrecking mess, or did Evil Eye bring it into our world? All this is presuming that no further reuploads in this forsaken countdown are going to feature this mess of a track.

I want a goth daughter or son but I know that I would probably get a little edgelord obsessed with Minecraft and Fortnite instead (or whatever the Minecraft/Fortnite of the 2030s turns out to be). I know, there are no more goths (or even Hot Topic/Disney goths) and those days are over. RIP.

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Re: This Is Halloween: top 50 uploads of all time

Post by seasons » Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:35 pm

6. This Is Halloween [Anime Expo 2010 AMTV Pro Winner]
uploaded by MrHagarenViper (April 25, 2010)
59,958 views



Wanna watch Soul Eater? You can watch it on Funimation's Youtube channel and Netflix instant stream, or buy the series at RightStuf!
http://www.rightstuf.com/cgi-bin/catalo ... 0024/4/0/0

So one year ago, AllyKatAVR made a boredom video that had a few seconds of "This is Halloween" and Soul Eater together. it was a fun vid and a fun idea, and I played with the idea of doing it myself. Of course this was like, a week before Halloween and I had just gotten into Soul Eater, so it *probably* wasn't the best idea to do right then.

So here I am one year later.

And with 51 eps instead of the 11 or so I had seen. Yeah, I can deal with that~

I wanted to make this video different from other Soul Eater AMVs, I didnt want to just focus on Maka, Soul, Black Star and Kid, I wanted to show everything about Soul Eater. I tried to fit as many characters as I could, and use scenes that aren't common in amvs. I also tried to stay away from the scenes that are common, but that couldn't always be helped (They're overused for a reason, after all!). I used many scenes of different villians and one-shot monsters, and anything creepy I could find. Surprisingly, I had to kind of stretch myself to finish this, as chanting "This is Halloween" doesn't give you much lyric sync to work with ^^;

I had a great time making this amv, and very glad I was able to release this on Halloween, even if that meant working on it until 11:00pm, October 30th. Good times, good times.

I really hope you enjoy this AMV, I put a lot of hard work into it, and I think it paid off. And last but not least...Happy Halloween!

Download link: https://www.animemusicvideos.org/member ... p?v=172517

"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
The video that started it all!

Kind of sad that it doesn't even register in the top five most popular results for anything related to "This is Halloween," "Soul Eater," "AMV" or any of the relevant terms that have yielded everything listed up to this point.

I started making a list of all the "This Is Halloween" uploads I could find simply because I wanted to find Hagaren Viper's original upload, and doing so was actually a huge challenge! Was it because I was searching for "Hagaren Viper" and not "MrHagarenViper"? Yeah, probably. But you'd be surprised how much digging I really had to do to get this particular video to even come up at all. (Now that I've said that, I'm sure someone is going to simply search for "This Is Halloween" and report back that HV's original upload was actually the first result they got, I'm almost assured this will happen.) One wonders how many of these nearly 60K views were gained in the first year or so of this upload's existence, before the floodgates truly broke open and the Internet seized upon the AMV as a public domain work they were free to repost, alter and take credit for.

HV probably doesn't really care (or if he does, well damn, that's definitely understandable) but it's a shame that this video has been buried by history to the point where the average person wouldn't really know how to find out who truly made it in the first place.

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Re: This Is Halloween: top 50 uploads of all time

Post by seasons » Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:00 pm

5. 【AMV】This Is Halloween 『Soul Eater』
uploaded by TV Anime (August 10, 2016)
69,745 views




Outranking Hagaren Viper's original upload is someone else's reupload of the same video, with end credits cut off and a fat "CyberLink by PowerDirector" watermark in the corner of the screen. Disgusting!

Once again, too many new videos suddenly popped up in the midst of me making this list, so here's another that has to get bumped to keep the numbering from running over. And I thought I had this corrected!





Soul Eater Amv This Is Halloween
uploaded by SAMUEL ARAUJO (October 30, 2012)
72,195 views




A channel that's a mix of reuploaded AMVs, gaming videos, and content like this.


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Re: This Is Halloween: top 50 uploads of all time

Post by seasons » Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:02 pm

4. Soul Eater - This Is Halloween (HD)
uploaded by HitoriNoHime91 (August 3, 2010)
70,353 views



THIS VIDEO IS NOT MINE! It's entirely made by the amazing user sarfios ( http://www.youtube.com/user/sarfios )! I've put it on youtube only to provide a 720p video, 'cause his is only a 360p and it's such a waste, considering how amazing it is. So please do all the credits, all the appreciations etc. under HIS original video, which is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw8pcxE6U9k
Unfortunately, the video that HitoriNoHime91 links to is no longer online, and it is possible that its original creator had their channel removed. Sadly, we may never get to see the original work that inspired this passionate remaster.

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Re: This Is Halloween: top 50 uploads of all time

Post by seasons » Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:08 pm

3. AMV This Is Halloween
uploaded by VermillionAMV (October 31, 2014)
147,898 views



► Created by ~ Hagaren Viper
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrHagarenViper
► Anime ~ http://tinyurl.com/zdzfo47
► Song ~ Marilyn Manson - This Is Halloween
This is the HD remastered version of "This Is Halloween," the one produced by Hagaren Viper himself that was uploaded to animemusicvideos.org on October 31, 2014 and also uploaded to YouTube on his channel that same day. VermillionAMV also uploaded the video to their channel on that very same day, steering most would-be viewers away from the creator's channel and eventually raking in six-figure views on the video, gracefully sharing the scraps with HV over the years as his upload slowly amassed a little over 2,300 views in total.

Say what you want about reupload channels, but I think it's telling that Vermillion simply titled this upload "AMV This Is Halloween." No context, no mention of its origin or creator (aside from text in the video description that, yeah, no one actually reads), just SEO-maximized keywords that do nothing but drive hits and further muddy the waters as to where this video ever came from or who actually made it. The very idea that it's the work of anyone at all is... just not important to this channel at all. Just banking in the views and subs and cashing them out since 2010 under the guise of doing "the community" a public service and giving editors "exposure."

Nothing but a totally worthless and detrimental force in this hobby.

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Re: This Is Halloween: top 50 uploads of all time

Post by seasons » Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:25 pm

2. This Is Halloween - Anime MV ♫ AMV
uploaded by TheBestAMVsOfAllTime (October 14, 2010)
1,096,243 views



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Latest videos here: http://www.facebook.com/Icanonlycarry10lolisatatime

All the channels I use for uploading are in my channels subscription box on every page or click here: http://tinyurl.com/BestAMVs

Editor: Hagaren Viper
Anime & audio used: http://tinyurl.com/kbtye8v
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Random nonsense here: https://twitter.com/#!/bestamvs

If you cannot watch this video on a mobile device, it's blocked by the copyright owner. Read here for some apps that will still let you watch on mobile devices.
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Motion Graphics - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
Random - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
I have no proof that VermillionAMV monetizes their video, but they also don't say that they don't, so who knows? TheBestAMVsOfAllTime claim "Everything on this channel is non-commercial and non-profit. I'm not a partner, no videos are monetized, I have no adsense account." I guess the right thing to do would be to take them at their word? I don't even think that monetization is the issue here (although it's really telling to see how 2010 YouTube culture stacks up against 2020 YouTube culture and how far the entire ethical dilemma of monetization of remixed and stolen content just isn't even an issue anymore, everything is ripe for the taking now). I'm just sour that the entire notion of AMV editors being able to have their own channels and develop their own followings (like videogame streamers, reviewers or bitter culture analysts get to do) got fucking destroyed by these channels, which totally normalized the idea that individual AMVs just belong to... everyone.

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Yeah, whoever made this did a great job. Wouldn't it be great if there was some way to find out who they were?

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Re: This Is Halloween: top 50 uploads of all time

Post by seasons » Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:43 pm

There were lots of uploads here that got squeezed out of the top 50. Some didn't make the cut, others did and then got bumped out because I kept finding more and more uploads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6nEl3PSpxs 1,747 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mypeRpIB6Y 31 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFnQpDL37TY 30 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD-dmHgJ2ng 26 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHXYEj6AdOE 24 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7I50X-ad_w 18 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B23m_jpz3g 16 views

etc.

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Leo Mcpherson
(November 9, 2017)
12 views





HP
(January 18, 2016)
30 views





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(September 21, 2013)
129 views





erika alegandra ramirez diaz
(September 23, 2012)
3 views


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