I don't hear anyone talking about them unlike a decade ago when everyone was watching and making Naruto and Linken park AMVs.I also got into them then. Yeah I haven't exactly been following anime or in too many forums with new people so maybe it's that.
Did AMVs go out of fashion?
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I've seen some AMVs. I tend to see them when relating to various music or anime and don't recall the last time I saw them on my recommended. I think they tended to be popular in the early 2000s and then died down later.
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I so do miss the early days of Youtube, so many great AMVs floating around. Now you can't post anything without copyright strike >_>
After checking yt once, I think I was wrong because they are getting more views than ever. It really is a case of me being out of the loop.
Every change yt has made for the last 10 years has literally made it worse.
It's an artform and you'd have to find the good editors if you want to see good editing or plot.
But even the low effort ones served as trailers to anime back then and discovery of songs.
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I see the early days of YouTube and AMV’s was like wading through a mountain of repetitive turds to find the diamonds.
Also in my experience, it didn’t feel like a trailer to anime or discovery of songs. Most of the videos all over YouTube in the early days were really Naruto vs Sasuke or Goku vs Vegeta to [insert popular rock song]. So any anime fan during those days knew about DBZ and Naruto, and anyone that listened to rock radio knew who Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, and Three Days Grace were. They were the some of the most popular bands in the genre in like 2006-2010
To me it just kind of soured my experience and made it feel like some low effort thing people threw up on YouTube for clicks. Going through several of those videos didn’t give me a good impression.
That's just because you were wading through the YT algorithm. I found channels and some editors who made the best and stuck with them.
I’m curious how the algorithm even worked back then, though that doesn’t really change the fact that was the vast majority of the AMV’s available.
Half of early YouTube were Naruto vs Sasuke AMV’s and lyric videos with Comic Sans font, all made in Windows Movie Maker. Oh, and AVGN clones.
The meme is of Linken park but I swear it should be skillet instead.
Skillet was kind of on the tail end of that. They didn’t get popular until 2009, so they were kind of late to the angsty teenager playlist. There was a solid three years for Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, and Three Days Grace AMV’s on YouTube.
I personally haven’t seen Blue Stahli, or know who they are. Ashes Remain is also pretty late.
There was a lot of Evanesence. Emo scenes of Sasuke to My Immortal all over the place.
Also a lot of people thought they were geniuses making AMV’s featuring Pain set to Three Days Grace’s Pain. I know, never would have put two and two together.
Blue stahil had one song that was super popular (Ultranumb).
I looked it up. Idk if I did or didn’t hear it before. Sounds pretty generic for its time.
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I personally still see them a lot on my feed and never really look for them anymore. I feel like the YT DMCA problems attacked them with music copyrights, anime copyrights, and eventually algorithm drops from the copyrights to really damage their abilities to thrive, but they seem to see do well.
Yes, true, there were the tsunami of quickly done AMVs that generated clicks, but there were some truly good ones out there. I'll mention one, not because of the art work that was done, but because it was beautifully smashed together: Happy Material Medley. This is a rhythmical masterpiece of like 11 minutes, that combines all the versions of Happy Material together, perfectly matched on the beat. Although, I personally think the visuals could have been better, there was only so much Negima! that could have been used. So, I'm not taking too many points off for that.
But there are lots of others where the authors did a great job lip-syncing. I just wish that some of the older 80s music was used more, but that's my personal bias.
And to answer the question, I think people are just running low on free time. Everybody like has to work two and three jobs these days just to keep afloat financially. That's my opinion on why we're not seeing AMVs too much anymore. Heck, I barely have enough time to fit in watching anime as it is!
I don’t think it has anything to do with low free time based on working multiple jobs based on all these time consuming hobbies that are popular. People also make other types of videos for YouTube and TikTok.