Charlie Questionset III

[Pwolf]

1. I have a rather strict definition of what a "friend" is. Inside and outside the world of AMVs, the definition doesn't change much. AMVs have been a catalyst in forming friendships but they are no different from the friendships I have with people outside of the hobby.
2. I have a small handful of non-editor friends locally but I large majority of the people I would consider "best friends" live in the Chicago area.
3. The way i look at friendship, "changing" groups sounds wrong. I have friends I don't talk to much anymore but I don't think that really changes anything.
4. I started editing without knowing there was a community but I think the community and the people I met after joining have influenced me to do more of it. So i'm not sure if I would've continued to edit as long as I have without the community.
5. I don't see why not. I enjoyed the editing I did outside of the community so I can imagine if I did more of it, I would still enjoy it.
6. For the first few years of editing, I didn't make much friends here. I talked to people and got to know other editors, but I wouldn't have called them friends at the time (some of these people have become good friends over the years non-the-less). I don't think it would've mattered or made editing less enjoyable.
7. I've been part of this community for a long time and have a lot of memories here so I think if it ceased to exist tomorrow morning, i think i would be rather upset.
8. Yes. The first time I met another editor was at AX2001. Met a lot of editors actually. It was a nervous experience considering it was also my first con. By then I had talked to a few of them online briefly so it wasn't completely new and awkward. Over the years I've met many editors and become friends with them. I still meet new editors. My two current cons are Sakuracon and NDK and it seems there's always someone new to meet and I look forward to it.
9. Not really
10. No. But give it time and maybe.

[BasharOfTheAges]

1) I'm not sure what this question means to be honest. I understand the concept of "acquaintances" and "work friends" - I'd say people I'm friendly with here but don't actually know in real life to be kinda like "work friends" ... Does that answer it?
2) Lots of people. A fair number of editors. A bunch of people I went to college with (and the people they met and introduced em to and are part of our normal gatherings) are the bulk of my friends... Then there are the good friends from years past who I grew up with and don't get to see much any more, but would do anything to help out, and the large group of friends whom I staff cons with.
3) I've fallen out of touch with a large number of friends from my childhood. We've went our separate ways and all left the area. It's life, it happens.
4) In the loosest sense of the word. probably not... but this community as it is here wasn't the whole picture. I made friends with The people in my studio kinda independently from the 'org. Most of them were already veterans here when I made this account in 2004, and none of them have been active posters here since 2006 or so.
5) Not at all.
6) I really can't parse this question.
7) Apocalyptic scenarios damage the psyche in ways that are impossible to predict. I could become completely insane. I could dedicate my life to baking. There's no way of knowing.
8) Yes, at least 40.
8a) I met a bunch of editors at AB in 2003. Can't remember who exactly though.
8ab) This past weekend, we were all gathering up outside of UNOs on Boylston St. in Boston. Shin walks up and asks if this is the group for the editor's dinner. We say yes. We all say Hi and introduce ourselfs. Riveting, I know.
9) *thwack*

[Centurione]

What does friendship mean to you as it applies to the world of AMVs?

It sure would mean quite a lot if I had people in this community I would consider real friends. It's not that much fun when you do something and there are not many people you could share your interest with. Friendships sure make editing more fun, I think, and help with improving and general enjoyability of this hobby so I guess I find it as something important.

Who are your friends? If you're friendly with everybody, who are your best friends?
I'm not exactly looking for specific names (though you're free to share those as well) as much as I'm looking for group names or editing demographics, though specific names could be interesting, too.

I've been only recently chatting with Milk Or Life! and Frezio. I started out with the amv.com.pl community and they both are part of this.

We all change groups of friends throughout our lives, somewhat anyway. What other groups in the past have you been involved with?

People from school, that's the obvious one. As I've been also quite much involved in music and dance communities in my city, I know many people from different dance teams, music school, some local bands. It's fun to have many people all around you even if you can't call them friends as someone very important.

Do you think you would ever have come to be an editor without a community?

Sure, that's how I started. It's a hobby anyway, not something I would give up on without other people doing that. But communities are fun.

Do you think you would like editing as much without a community?

I think I wouldn't have this much of determination and motivation to improve. I would like editing as much as I do now but probably I'd care less about how I edit.

What about with a community, but for some reason it was impossible to make friends?
Not that there's anything wrong with you, it's just impossible to make real friends in this example for some imaginary reason.

For me making new friends is quite hard. People in real life tend to say my company is ispirational (whatever that means) but at the begging of any relationship I'm acting different than later what usually stops people from getting closer to me. That's a bit the same online. First I can't even bring myself to write to anybody 'cause I have a feeling I'll start acting stupid. Then, if someone writes to me, I'm still stupid as I really don't want to be acting stupid. That's a bit troublesome, the one thing I really hate about myself.

How important would editing be to you if every online community and all traces of one (save for your own memory) ceased to exist when you woke up tomorrow morning?

I believe it would stay the same as it is.

Have you ever met an editor in real life?

Nope.

8b. Of course, I'd love to!
8bb. I'm too shy to go to the Polish convention alone, not knowing anyone from there in reality and there's no one in my city that would go with me. But I'll try to go alone this year. There are people I'd like to meet too much to say 'I won't go there, I'm too shy'.

Is there anything else related to this subject you'd like to add?

I'm really pleased when someone wants to get to know me. It makes me so happy, really! I might not act/look/speak like this but I really am! Anyone, feel welcome if you ever wanted to talk to me

The person posting below you has no friends, whatsoever. Will you be his/her friend?

Sure! I'd try my best

[TritioAFB]

What does friendship mean to you as it applies to the world of AMVs?

Friendship means a lot. I'm sure that without friends that helped me all this way, I think I would be still editing with WMM or would have to quit.
But the point is: True Friends, not just the ones that start to talk with you just because you made a good clip. I still have one friend that kept supporting me from the first day I put an amv in YouTube until now.

Who are your friends? If you're friendly with everybody, who are your best friends?
I'm not exactly looking for specific names (though you're free to share those as well) as much as I'm looking for group names or editing demographics, though specific names could be interesting, too.

The last phrase reminds me to my culture thesis
I'm friend with everybody that loves and appreciates AMVs.
But since I was raised into the russian community is not surprising that many of my friends are russians, nor to mention that I'm friend with the Hispanic, French and the American editors basically, if not ask MimS, -eake4-, Aimo, Ashley, madara, Ikore, irriadin, Yue, Code.............

The list is too long

We all change groups of friends throughout our lives, somewhat anyway. What other groups in the past have you been involved with

In the past I was friend with the fansubs groups. When I started growing, I adopted AKROSS as my first home, then moved to the org, and finally ZonaAMV

Do you think you would ever have come to be an editor without a community?

Nah, I think that lonely you could do several things, but nobody will notice your progress if you're not involved in any kind of community

Do you think you would like editing as much without a community?

It will be a weird experience, like a singer that loves to sing just for him. One day surely he'll leave that thought of 'I can do it all alone' and start hanging out with a community

What about with a community, but for some reason it was impossible to make friends?
Not that there's anything wrong with you, it's just impossible to make real friends in this example for some imaginary reason.

I like to use the example of AKROSS for this kind of questions. I know all foreign people that enter the first time feels the same when they first open the AE
The community at some moments might look so closed to the rest of the world, but that's because you have to start socializing with the russian. I tend to ask a lot about music, since the russians have an interesting taste of music. Thanks to them I discover many bands I would have never know they exist.

So it's not that is impossible to make friends, it's you that should start socializing with the people

How important would editing be to you if every online community and all traces of one (save for your own memory) ceased to exist when you woke up tomorrow morning?

I would probably miss all the memories about them but I would continue editing for the sake of those memories

Have you ever met an editor in real life?

If yes, describe your first experience doing so.

If more than once, describe your last experience doing so.

If no, would you like to?

If yes, what's stopping you?

Actually yes. I met jubjub2 in real life and was a nice experience
The curious thing: jubjub2 was the first editor that let me in a MEP organized in the org, the first that gave me reasons to continue improving and the first editor I met in real life. 3 First times
Wait. She was also the first ever English speaker whom I had a conversation. 4 First times

Well we meet into an anime store. We had our introductions, talked about the recent animes, future proyects and the Kawaii Kon. It was a nice experience, and it's possible that it will repeat again, depending of my free time and what my hospital says.

Koneko is the other editor, but she lives next to me, so nothing new
She's the only one that can say how my houses looks like

From the org, some guys I'll like to meet are Shin, Brisco and l33meatwad. Shin reminds me a lot to one of my friends from the school, Brisco cause I still dunno how to thank him, and Turner.... cause you seem someone I shoud definitively hang out in real life
Without forgetting about ReggieSmalls, Code, irriadin, -Eake4-, Statz, kireblue, mirkosp, Otohiko, ibabrak....
And about the girls, Taite, Katie, Aimo, Pocho_Love, Yue, Mystyk, Warlike Swans, AngelDragoon and Ileia

Is there anything else related to this subject you'd like to add?

-This was an interesting questionset.
-In the past I tend to believe that my path was to be a Solitary Editor. That was wrong from my part because I couldn't meet many of the editors from the generation 2003-now, since I first started from a very long time but decided to join communities until I was older. Since someone asked me: The fact that I joined until 2009 doesn't mean I started editing that year. I've been editing from a very long time

The person posting below you has no friends, whatsoever. Will you be his/her friend?

(I would advise that you answer all of number 8 as a single paragraph, if at all.)[/quote]

Sure, why not? I'm friend with everybody that makes and loves AMVs

[ReggieSmalls]

What does friendship mean to you as it applies to the world of AMVs?

If your cool with me online or not we good.

Who are your friends? If you're friendly with everybody, who are your best friends?
I'm not exactly looking for specific names (though you're free to share those as well) as much as I'm looking for group names or editing demographics, though specific names could be interesting, too.

Everybody in DZ and CDVV, good people.

We all change groups of friends throughout our lives, somewhat anyway. What other groups in the past have you been involved with?

Before I got into editing I was doing photoshop making signatures and backgrounds and I still talk to a few people from the old community.

Do you think you would ever have come to be an editor without a community?

Well I started out on Youtube but without this place I wouldn't have improved as much as I have if it wasn't for the org and it's people.

Do you think you would like editing as much without a community?

Maybe hard to say but I know once I got up with DZ I started editing more.

What about with a community, but for some reason it was impossible to make friends?
Not that there's anything wrong with you, it's just impossible to make real friends in this example for some imaginary reason.

I know this place gets a bad rep sometimes but the people here are pretty chill once you get to know them, it's not hard to meet people here.

How important would editing be to you if every online community and all traces of one (save for your own memory) ceased to exist when you woke up tomorrow morning?

I can't lie I would be a bit pissed but it wouldn't stop me from editing.

Have you ever met an editor in real life?
Yes i have met Fall_Child, ZephyrStar and Otohiko.

If yes, describe your first experience doing so.

If more than once, describe your last experience doing so.

It was awesome

Spoiler :

Is there anything else related to this subject you'd like to add?

Their are lot of people I would love to meet in person if I ever had the chance, the DZ crew, the rest of CDVV, Code,TritioAFB, BasharOfTheAges, Pwolf, Castor Troy, ngsilver, LopezAMV, Jwalk and inthesto.

The person posting below you has no friends, whatsoever. Will you be his/her friend?

(I would advise that you answer all of number 8 as a single paragraph, if at all.)

Hit me up I'm always down to chat.

[Shin-AMV]

What does friendship mean to you as it applies to the world of AMVs?

More funtimes

Who are your friends? If you're friendly with everybody, who are your best friends?
I'm not exactly looking for specific names (though you're free to share those as well) as much as I'm looking for group names or editing demographics, though specific names could be interesting, too.

I have a lot of friends and acquaintances who are involved in making AMVs now. I'm pretty open to talking to anybody about AMVs and just goofing off and my Skype is readily available for people to add anytime. Youtube or Org, novice or pro as long as you enjoy the hobby we'll probably get along.

We all change groups of friends throughout our lives, somewhat anyway. What other groups in the past have you been involved with?

I dunno. Before AMVs it was just a small group of college friends I guess.

Do you think you would ever have come to be an editor without a community?

It took awhile before I actually got involved in the community and making friends in it, so probably yeah.

Do you think you would like editing as much without a community?

Probably.

What about with a community, but for some reason it was impossible to make friends?
Not that there's anything wrong with you, it's just impossible to make real friends in this example for some imaginary reason.

I'd still be making AMVs but it might not be as fun.

How important would editing be to you if every online community and all traces of one (save for your own memory) ceased to exist when you woke up tomorrow morning?

Dunno for sure. But I imagine it'd be like trying to go to your day job still after the zombie apocalypse happened. Kinda of a waste if the social structure is gone. :/

Have you ever met an editor in real life?

If yes, describe your first experience doing so.

If more than once, describe your last experience doing so.

Yes. I saw a bunch of editors at A Cen 2011, but didn't really meet any until AWA where I remember meeting Kireblue, Pilkington, l33tmeatwad, Vlad, and GloryQuestor. Although I was really timid at the time so the meetings were kinda brief for the most part and I didn't say a whole lot. I ended up meeting a lot of editors at Anime Boston and hanging out with a bunch of them including Kiarrens, Driftroot, BasharoftheAges, Warlike Swans/Cygnet, LantisEscudo, Advent87, drewaconclusion and a bunch of others. Then on the way back from Boston, I ended up in a crazy awesome situation where I got a $400 travel voucher and a 10 hour layover in Chicago and ended up meeting and hanging out with Ileia, Copycat_revolver, Kitsuner, Koopiskeva, and Brad which was super funtimes. (Especially the super slow drive-by staredown as I walked towards the airport terminal, that wasn't awkward at all <.<)

Is there anything else related to this subject you'd like to add?

Meeting/talking with other editors is fun. No real reason to be shy or timid, most of us are generally in the same situation as you and are really open to talking or hanging out so if you know where at a convention feel free to say hi and hang out at different panels/events/breakfast/lunch/dinner etc.

The person posting below you has no friends, whatsoever. Will you be his/her friend?

No, he/she has no friends for a reason. What an elitist jerk.

[DriftRoot]

*peers upwards at Shin*

What does friendship mean to you as it applies to the world of AMVs?

Friends with AMV benefits? Getting to know people over time, so that your conversation progresses past the point of an occasional "oh hey, good AMV" in an announcement thread to actual knowledge and awareness of that person as a PERSON, not "just" another editor.

Who are your friends? If you're friendly with everybody, who are your best friends?
I'm not exactly looking for specific names (though you're free to share those as well) as much as I'm looking for group names or editing demographics, though specific names could be interesting, too.

Friends? I guess they know who they are...I'm not a tons of friends sort of person, quality over quantity has been my lifelong modus operandi. I'm also older than a lot of the anime fans and editors one runs into, so I am very out of touch with anyone younger than oh... Generation Y or so. My interests have always tended towards the same things people younger than me enjoy, though, and so I'm not unused to being around younger folks (omg...I sound soooo old).

We all change groups of friends throughout our lives, somewhat anyway. What other groups in the past have you been involved with?

Identifiable groups in the past? hrm...D&D (3rd edition) and Final Fantasy are probably the only "groups" per se. I'm an equal opportunity sort of person, I don't typically identify strongly with one group or another.

Do you think you would ever have come to be an editor without a community?

Probably not, when I started getting into AMVs, the first thing I did was track down the AMV community (aka a-m-v.org).

Do you think you would like editing as much without a community?

I don't like editing much as it is BUT I don't make videos in a vacuum, and nor do most people. We make them to share with others and that, I'd say, means some kind of enjoyment of community. Whether one's experience WITH that community is enjoyable is a totally different matter.

What about with a community, but for some reason it was impossible to make friends?

This is starting to reach a bit, I think...but I'll play along. Just because (according to my own definition of friendship) I didn't have "friends," that wouldn't mean there still weren't people who were watching and enjoying my videos. They don't need to be my "friends" to do that, and in fact it's those nameless masses I don't know and will never know who are the primary audience for my videos. Does that make those nameless masses of AMV fans a community? I'd say so.

How important would editing be to you if every online community and all traces of one (save for your own memory) ceased to exist when you woke up tomorrow morning?

If the question is "Would you still make AMVs if they couldn't be shared," then editing would probably become rather unimportant to me. Refinishing antiques is the only hobby I have which is a singular pursuit, I think the nature of AMV editing is overwhelmingly communal...

Have you ever met an editor in real life?

If yes, describe your first experience doing so.

Last experience would be at Anime Boston this year - see Shin's post above. It was the first time I got to meet a group of folks all at once who didn't all already know each other and were interested in some casual conversation, getting to know one another, etc. (Wish I'd had more of a chance to spend more time with people, but circumstances made that a little difficult.) At other times, it's just been meeting one particular editor and hanging out for a few hours or maybe a small group briefly. As mentioned above, I'm not the kind of person who has a ton of casual friends, or who makes friends easily. There are some people I just completely and totally "click" with immediately, but that happens pretty rarely.

Is there anything else related to this subject you'd like to add?

I will say this: the online AMV community and friends are the only people with whom I ever do anything with this hobby. None of my "IRL" friends care very much about anime or AMVs, aside from my occasionally forcing a good anime movie on them or turning them into guinea pigs for my latest video. So almost everything I say, think and do with regards to editing is done online, as part of this community (and by "this" I mean a-m-v.org). For anyone who has ever wondered why (or how) I ever got it into my head to be such an active and effusive journal poster, that is why. I have no other "outlet," as it were, to share my thoughts, my ideas, my trials and tribulations with anyone who would really understand or even be interested. I do a little, of course, and my friends commiserate as well as they're able, but when I'm up to my eyeballs in a new video and need to vent, bounce ideas off people or just talk shop, I do it here, not during girl's night out.

The person posting below you has no friends, whatsoever. Will you be his/her friend?

*peers downwards* If they want to be my friend, that's a good start.

[ngsilver]

What does friendship mean to you as it applies to the world of AMVs?

Friends make everything more fun. Doesn't matter what the subject mater is.

Who are your friends? If you're friendly with everybody, who are your best friends?
I'm not exactly looking for specific names (though you're free to share those as well) as much as I'm looking for group names or editing demographics, though specific names could be interesting, too.

Well, I tend to talk more to people in the IRC chat and those who frequent the livestreams. I pretty friendly with everyone so yeah...

We all change groups of friends throughout our lives, somewhat anyway. What other groups in the past have you been involved with?

Many

Do you think you would ever have come to be an editor without a community?

Yes, considering the editing community as far as I knew of it when I started editing was people putting videos up on Morpheus and Kazaa with a file name with 'AMV' somewhere in it. I didn't find out about the org until well after I started editing and then it took a few more years before I actually starting paying attention to the 'community' as I never went to the forums in the early years.

Do you think you would like editing as much without a community?

Well, if by community you mean the people who hang around the forums and I chat with regularly then yes, I'd like editing just the same. If by community you mean the people who keep this site running, then probably not. After all, I have a much easier time finding videos and enjoyable ones here then elsewhere and that mainly what my primary goal is, to watch videos rather then make them.

What about with a community, but for some reason it was impossible to make friends?
Not that there's anything wrong with you, it's just impossible to make real friends in this example for some imaginary reason.

Wouldn't bother me none really.

How important would editing be to you if every online community and all traces of one (save for your own memory) ceased to exist when you woke up tomorrow morning?

Same as it is now. I make vids for whoever decides to watch them and myself. If no one else watched them then at least I'd have myself as a viewer.

Have you ever met an editor in real life?

If yes, describe your first experience doing so.

If more than once, describe your last experience doing so.

Yes.
My first experience meeting an editor was with one of my friends back in College who made videos as well. I forget what his editor name was though, but we had fun both loosing at ACEN '04.
My last experience was at Youmacon. I have a few editors on my staff so it was fun times hanging out with them and enjoying a few cigars and a hookah on Sunday night after everything was torn down and we had time to relax. I'm looking forward to doing similar with SailorDeath and anyone else who wants to join in again at AWA this year.

Is there anything else related to this subject you'd like to add?

Stop lurking when you goto cons. We don't bite... well... most of us don't... I can't really speak for Pilk....

The person posting below you has no friends, whatsoever. Will you be his/her friend?

Yes

[Shin-AMV]

*peers upwards at Shin*

O:
I change my position, we can be BFFs.
If you're at Boston again next year, you definately should hang out more with us.