The last AMV I made turns 12 years old today...

[jt_x]

Hello, I didn't know you. I just went through your journal and I thought that this post you made in 2003 was interesting:

AMV's as an art form are dead. Gone are the days of community, gone are the days learning from each other, but saddest of all, gone are the days when actual editing meant something.
In its place we now have a flood of mindless drivel, completely self absorbed egotists, and videos that poor in by the second consisting of nothing more than glitz and masking or lumps of nothing featuring a flavor of the month anime/song, with not so much as even an after thought to pacing, continuity, theme, mood or above all any editing whatsoever.

Day by day more and more 13 year olds flood onto the scene, never contributing, never critiquing, but simply sucking down bandwidth and idolizing any video that happens to have their favorite song.
A good friend of mine said, "99% of people only watch AMV's simply to watch their favorite anime put to their favorite song". This is profoundly true, but hasn't always been the case.
Its horrifying how few people even consider anything more than "does it use a character/song I like?", casting away any efforts of any creators that dare go out of bounds and not mask fucking Love Hina onto Narotu or whatever the flavor of the month may be.
More and more of these videos come in, to where my bar has been set so low that if somebody can hit a simple beat, I go download everything they have ever done simply in hopes of finding some glimmer of hope in this mass of shit.

AMVs today seem to be trapped in the 80's. Flash and favorites have squarely taken the place of story telling, editing, and emotion.

Part of this decline is in my opinion due to the Carrot. One of the main things that always kept allot of the morons away was you had to go about figuring out and finding your own hosting, making people really stop to think if all the effort was actually worth it. Now anyone has a golden ticket.
Part of this also of course is simply the growing popularity of AMVs as a whole. The more people know about it, the greater the % of worthless people find their way here, but it seems to have grown exponentially.

Oh well, there is no changing it, but I sure as hell can be disgusted about it. I will continue to make AMVs for myself, which is why I started in the first place. I am sad though that I am finding so few new people that actually create, and take pride, and effort in their creations. People who don’t think "I know, this will be sure to win a con", people who don’t say "I will outdo so and so by making a better version of their video" and people who don't base all things off the amount you post on a forum.

To all of you who do such things, who have turned this art form into a cheap pop fest, I say, fuck you.

To all of you who continue to make vids for themselves, who constantly try to better themselves, and who don’t view AMVs simply as a popularity contest, please keep on keeping on, even if you feel nobody is watching.

reminded me this blog post talking about sub cultures being invaded. Also those 13 year olds are now 26.

[ngsilver]

Some of us are still trucking along. Some of us are not. Same shit, different year.

[jt_x]

Some of us are still trucking along. Some of us are not. Same shit, different year.

it's gonna be a sad day when you die. who is gonna save all of our porn when you're gone

[Kionon]

Honestly, I've been hearing the same shit about the death of the hobby, changing of the hobby, ruin of the hobby... Since I started in the hobby.

[Farlo]

am i too late for the old timer party?

[mexicanjunior]

Hi...

[Kionon]

Oh, hi, MJ. Sup?

[badmartialarts]

mmm

[Scintilla]

Holy crap, it's Sousaphonist.

[badmartialarts] you damn slash fanfic fans
[badmartialarts] Scintilla X cyanna is canon
[badmartialarts] CANON
[badmartialarts] :/

[Scintilla] Sounds like a sentai show.
[badmartialarts] It is doubleplusgood.
[trythil] 1984?
[trythil] as a sentai show
[trythil] HOLY SHIT
[trythil] I think Scintilla hit upon a gold mine
[Scintilla] ... I was referring to "Gatchaman".
[trythil] EVEN SO
[badmartialarts] fighting the evil of Big Brother
[trythil] and ALWAYS failing
[trythil] they could speed around in O'Brien's PartyMobile
[trythil] until he backstabs the team
[trythil] and then he has to go on

[ngsilver]

Some of us are still trucking along. Some of us are not. Same shit, different year.

it's gonna be a sad day when you die. who is gonna save all of our porn when you're gone

I'm sure someone will pick it up. Though I guess there is always like xvideos or one of the other many sites of that kind...