Information
- Member: vivafruit
- Title: Work Burnout is Funny
- Premiered: 2021-11-03
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Song:
- I Prevail Hurricane
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Comments:
Aggretsuko has always resonated with me a lot, but it hit extra hard once I started burning out on my job in 2020 and 2021. By the time I made this, I was counting the days before I could quit. There is something totally soul sucking about being trapped in a job you have no enthusiasm for but that you need to work to get paid.
I submitted this to AWA Pro, and it was mostly a flop (although it had a few fans). The video is a weird mixture of drama and comedy and suffered from the anonymous format. One comment I got for it was that the person genuinely didn't know if the video was trolling or not. And yeah, the video is sort of deliberately ambiguous on whether it's supposed to be funny. Without any context, it's hard to really know what the creator was thinking. People who had seen and enjoyed Aggretsuko seemed more likely to get the joke, but even then it wasn't a sure bet. And the song selection was polarizing; screamo isn't something everyone can just pick up and enjoy.
Another criticism I caught for this was that the cuts are too static. This was my first time trying a single source AMV. In multisource, you can use longer cuts because your overall clip quality is higher. But in a show as static as Aggretsuko, some of my cuts just lingered too long and dampen the energy of the song. An important lesson.
THAT SAID, I still am fond of it. It's basically a very longform joke that relies on a slow buildup to the screaming part of the song, and once the punchline hits I think it's just hysterical. But of course ymmv.