Zarxrax wrote:Arigatomina wrote:The questions - Are they there because they frequent the forums? Or do they frequent the forums because they're there? :!:
It seems pretty simple to me. If you make good videos, you probably care about amvs, enough to put hard work and effort into them. If you care about amvs, you are likely to want to be involved in the community.
Or, well, you could be amazingly good at video editing (hence, make good videos) and despise the AMV community for being an in-fighting ragtag band of amateurs acting under some grandiose assumptions that they are
ARTISTS whose creative SOULS have been ENABLED by the PROLIFERATION of DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES; and, therefore, they are
PIONEERS of REMIXED CULTURE and shall be the metaphorical OPENING SALVO in the SECOND BATTLE for a culture that is FREE for REINTERPRETATION by the COMMONS.
(Come on, I know you know someone like that.)
In that case, that whole argument falls apart pretty quickly.