MimS wrote:Back then, I remember editors received looooooong reviews on their AMVs, people pointed anything they could see and/or feel watching it, good or bad, there was passion.
Think I'm going to have to call bull shit on this. I'm tired of people using this as a reason why things are "worse then they were". The amount of long reviews and quick little "likes" or "dislikes" on videos is more or less exactly the same as it always has been. New editors back then didn't get very many replies just like they don't get very many now. There are a small number of people who will leave longer reviews and comment on new editor's threads. It really wasn't all that different.
Back in 2003 when I released the first version of Mitternacht ("Midnight"), my announcement thread had 8 replies. Of those 8 replies, only 3 other people other than myself commented. Not a single comment was long or detailed. 4 months later, when I released the version I will forever be known for, I received 5 replies. Again, no long detailed comments. Euphoria had 19 pages of mostly random conversation and like/dislike comments. Very little detailed analysis of what Jay had made. In 2005 Jay released Waking Hour. 6 pages of "i liked it". Same year, Jihaku, 6 pages of short comments, again, no detailed analysis of the video. In 2006 I released my AWA Pro video for that year. 3 pages of short comments. 2008, Nostromo's Auriga: 11 pages of, again, short comments and discussions about frame rate.
I could keep going but I'd be here researching old video announcement threads all day and find the same thing. The majority of comments are short and not very detailed. There was no more "passion" then as there is today. If anything, the passion we see from people today is mistaken for drama and elitism.