#vidding

[usuallyhats]

Tubthumping | music by Chumbawamba | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | Content notes: none

"If the existing plan fails, I make a new plan."

"So you make plans that fail."

"No!"

Premiered at VidUKon 2023! Downloads and more info here at Dreamwidth

#dungeons & dragons: honor among thieves #dndhat #dndhatedit #vidukon #vid #my vids #vidding #finally getting around to posting this! #autoplay

[vidding]

The Best Vidding Safe Haven?

Forgive the "read bait" meme above but if you are reading these words right now that means it worked. If you are a vidding fan then it was worth it. Vidders.net was born July 19, 2010. It is a Vidder-friendly AO3 Embed Certified Vid hosting & streaming site with over 18K vids. Its growth benefited from You Tube's increased use of content ID and the closing of Imeem. It was mentioned in the "Vidding: A History" book by Francesca Coppa. Its members (most who host some great vids there) include:

Luminosity

Lim

Laura Shapiro

Lithiumdoll

Obsessive24

Clucking Bells

Charmax

Bradcpu

thedothatgirl

kiki miserychic

Milly

Hollywoodgrrl

bop radar

Loki (secretlytodream)

Condsdmlk

newkidfan

NCISMelanie

Shoopdancer

Absolute Destiny

SD Wolfpup

Arefadedaway

camelia1986

adfproductions

Astarte

Such Heights

Mithoborien

mresundance

Just to name a few. You may not recognize these names but if you do you know these vidders literally made a name for themselves with the quality of their work during that time. At least in my opinion. The site is a time capsule of awesome vids even if some of the vidders listed are no longer active. Additionally, it hosts vids no longer available on You Tube like "Boom Boom Ba" by Charmax (a classic Xena vid). And yet it can still host new content without the issues faced on some other vid hosting options.

How much does it cost to host and stream all those vids? Well, that is one of the reasons for this post. The assumption I'm making is that if there is a Vidding "community" it's more likely than not that members of it would see a post like this and/or share it with fellow members of the community. Is it worth it to keep a site like this around? It's mostly been a solo operation for these past 13 years but now I am starting to wonder after such a long time.

I'll spare you the obligation of filling out a poll or survey. I'll make it simple. We have a Patreon account at patreon.com/vidding. If you don't feel it's worth keeping up. Nothing to do. Thank you for reading this far. If you feel there is some value based on what was mentioned earlier, then a minimum level of support at the Patreon is $1 a month. You'll not only be supporting the Vidders.net but other projects like the recent purchase of the Vidding.com domain name and more. The OTW October fundraiser drive begins in October and is on track to raise about 250k. Rasing even 1 percent of that amount would be more than adequate. After all Vids on AO3 make up less than 1 percent of the content on there anyway. I've been told by a fellow fan that I should keep it running but if it's not even supported by a community, it's a personal expense at my expense I am on the hook for. Again, there is no survey or poll to take but if you have questions that may help you determine your willingness to support just contact me. If you find value in preserving the site just visit Patreon.com/vidding or get your questions answered. This form of funding is more sustainable than occasional stop and start donation efforts we've done in the past. If you prefer another form of funding let us know.

I will check in by the end of October to see where things are. I am not going to do anything drastic. It's just that it's been 13 years and I started to wonder especially with my current financial situation but didn't want to do anything without communicating the situation. The site costs about $720 a year to run. At about $60 a month to run so it should be doable.

Boom Boom Ba by Charmax

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The YouTube Vid Purge of 2021

#fanvid #vidding #vidders

[fanhackers]

Vidding’s Grandchildren? Edits, corecore, and other video feels

Thinking about the descendants of vidding, since I was quoted in this recent article on fan edits, “Why Do Fan-Made Trailers Rule the Internet?” by Cat Zhang. The edits of the article, like the fanvids of old, are scenes from television shows and movies set to music.  But while these edits are typically much shorter and more feels-focused than vids, they seem to me clearly a descendant of the form. In my book, Vidding: A History (2018), I talk about the ways in which YouTube and the algorithms of the internet were already affecting the aesthetics of vids back in the 2010s (spoiler alert: they’ve became shorter & more intense) and we can clearly see this trend in the 2020s now that fans are firmly on short-form platforms like Insta and Tiktok.  The edits in Zhang’s article are all about the feels, and a sub-class of edits, corecore (as explained in this Mashable article by Chance Townsend, “Explaining corecore: How TikTok’s newest trend may be a genuine Gen-Z art form”) is often used to express chaotic or overwhelmed feels.  Townsend says that what makes corecore so interesting is that “one’s feelings that couldn't be expressed through words are instead presented through images. Whether that emotion is happiness, a fear of the future, or the excitement of falling in love, corecore edits, through the use of multimedia, speak to our common experience.”  The idea of expressing emotion by the artistic act of combining disparate clips with music–well, it sounds like vidding, but at the same time it seems a long way away, too. That said, a work like this hip-hop based edit of The Bear, made by an artist at the X/Twitter account “black boy cinematic universe,” seems to be doing the kind of reparative fannish media work vis a vis race that older vids did for gender and sexuality. Zhang quotes the artist as saying: “There’s an energy to the show where it’s being carried by the people of color. So in my edit, I want to make sure there’s a song that represents that.”  That’s a very similar (and familiar) vibe: that urge to make the thing that will Get. It. Right.

–Francesca Coppa, Fanhackers volunteer

#fanhackers #author:francescacoppa #vidding #edits #race and fandom #feels

[festivids]

It's live! Proudly presenting the 160 vids of Festivids 23/24.

#festivids #fanvids #vidding

[kuwdora]

My festivids treat for enchantedsleeper!!!

Short Skirt Long Jacket music: “Short Skirt Long Jacket” by Cake source: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves pairing: Edgin/Xenk length: 2:14

download: right-click save as (48MB/mp4) - thank you to epershand for hosting!

streaming on ao3

#i'm winking so hard at my lyric associations here lmao #festivids #festivids 2023 #fanvid #fanvideo #dndhat #edgin x xenk #xenk yendar #edgin darvis #d&d honor among thieves #my vids #vidding

[secretlywingedphantom]

Crowley & Aziraphale | Everything Will Be Okay (Good Omens)

A little antidote for the S2 ending...

Song: Mother Mother - It's Alright

#youtube #fanvids #good omens edit #vidding #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #neil gaiman #david tennant #michael sheen #good omens #ineffable spouses #good omens 2

[believerinthetardis]

New Vid on my channel!🥰

#percabeth #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percy x annabeth #percy and annabeth #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson tv series #pjo tv show #pjo #pjo series #pjo spoilers #pjo disney+ #seaweed brain #wise girl #seaweed brain and wise girl #youtube #fan video #fanvid #vidding #viddingisart #vidder #my video #rick riordan #the lightning thief #camp half blood #chb

[waffle-meringue]

One, Two, Three, Go! — a Sense8 fanvid

¡Oye niños, no tengan miedo!

Cross-posted on AO3.

#sense8 #daniela velasquez #lito x hernando #lito x hernando x dani #ot3 #fanvid #vid #vidding #Youtube

[sofas-can-read-ice-can-burn]

Here's to 60 more years of Doctor Who!

#doctor who #dr who #dw #the doctor #fifteen #fifteenth doctor #classic who #ncuti gatwa #ruby sunday #thirteenth doctor #thirteen #rtd #youtube #mine #video #vidding #Youtube

[ajatheart]

finally got around to actually finishing this, this series will be with me the rest of my life. You either read or watched flowers in the attic and were repulsed by it or embraced it lol. thank you to the Borgias for bringing me back to this series.

#flowers in the attic the origin #flowers in the attic #cathy dollanganger #Christopher dollanganger #rose mciver #keirnan shipka #fita #fitaedit #coquette #ethel cain #family tree #petals on the wind #vc andrews #vidding #fan video #fanvid #edits

[vidding]

On June 23, 2021, You Tube announced that any Pre-2017 unlisted videos will be made private on July 23, 2021. Why? BTW this is an attempt to raise awareness about an event few fans may even know took place and highlight the importance of supporting archiving projects. It's written by those directly involved - any re-blogs are appreciated. An example of a rescued vid is at the end. Security update: Why? You Tube screwed up when it first developed unlisted videos. There was a loophole. Any unlisted video that was added to a playlist would automatically be made public. Oops! June 23, 2021 was when they made a formal announcement about their efforts to rectify it. You Tube's Solution? - Blanket privatization of ALL pre-2017 unlisted videos & then apply the security update for all new unlisted videos going forward. What if you don't want your pre-2017 unlisted videos to be made private? Filling out a form telling You Tube to do nothing is one option. Great for people who don't mind filling forms to send to You Tube. Make your videos public. 🤨 or download them and reupload them then make them unlisted with the new update. 🙄 You can watch the video below for descriptions of all the options. Most not ideal. Official Video: Released June 23, 2021. You can watch it whenever if you want to, but I must say contrary to what one would expect it is a very clear explanation without too much technical jargon. However, it doesn't really explain the obvious ramifications of this.

What are the freaking Ramifications: You Tube is 18 years old. What?!?!! 😲 Yeah, I know. Any pre-2017 videos would account for more than half of You Tube's history (11 years) and therefore fandom's history on You Tube. How many fans would be aware they had a 30-day notice and could act in time? Were you even aware of this?

More Issues: More importantly, how many users with abandoned accounts with noteworthy, valuable unlisted fanvids are no longer around to fill out a form. How many "Dead Embeds" would be the result of this when the videos go private. Many prefer to Unlist and Embed on other sites. Unlisted is not the same as private. It only means the videos can't be searched and found on You Tube but is available to anyone with a link or Embed. Private basically means no longer accessible and limited to people who were emailed a link directly.

There were only 2 people in Fandom (to my knowledge) who worked on rescuing content like that. We had about 2 weeks before the July 23, 2021 deadline to archive about 11 years of Pre-2017 unlisted fanvids and ask questions later. One of those people was Morgan Dawn and the other was myself. Other archive teams did work on this but their focus was on other types of videos related gaming, political history, anime, etc. Essentially non-fandom. In a nutshell, our collaboration led to the rescue approximately 12K unlisted fan videos. 12K fanvids that would have been made private forever and unable to be seen. The Work About 50% of that total came from accounts that had never uploaded a video since 2018. The work involved required more technical knowledge & resources than we had ever used before on any prior archive projects. There were several brand-new archive techniques we developed specifically out of necessity during that intense time period. One example was renting multiple virtual machines to sift through thousands of playlists just to find a fraction of unlisted videos. There was so much at stake. What happened with the content that was archived?

To my knowledge, there isn't an Open Doors for fanvids. There is just a few dedicated individuals who may be bad at promoting their work. Let's face it, when there is a fire at a library you marshal all resources to save as many books as you can and worry about everything else later. If archiving speaks to you whether that is fanzine, oral history or fanvid related, then there are certain things you can do:

Follow this Tumblr (we will post about relevant projects here)

If you have time, ask us how you can volunteer on projects and see if what we offer works for you. You can always opt out.

Re-blog this so that maybe someone who does have time sees this.

If you don't have time support our Patreon https://patreon.com/vidding

If you don't have time or money like this post acknowledging you appreciate that this work is being done even if you can't assist in those ways.

Choose whichever options work for you if possible.

This kind of work is done by very few people and not necessarily by those you would think would do this type of work. It can fly under the radar and so can support. This is an attempt to raise awareness which sometimes we are too busy to take time to do. If support doesn't go to the right places projects like this may never have happen or may not be as successful as they could be. This Unlisted You Tube Project is a perfect example of something a lot of fans may not be aware even took place. Thank you for whatever method of support you choose. The following experience was brought to you by archiving.

The following vid is one of the 12k saved. It's a Kirk/Spock vid. You will not find this vid anywhere but here. I know. I went to the original vidder's You Tube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@xKelociraptor and they have other vids on there. Last vid uploaded 11 years ago and no contact info. You want to know the kicker? I looked at all the other vids they have available but the best one (in my opinion) is the one that was unlisted & rescued. Unlisted vids are not necessarily unfinished projects or bad takes of a final version that should not see the light of day. They can in some cases be the best vids you will never see.

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The last vidder friendly hosting & streaming site?

#fanvid #vidding #archiving #Youtube

[mean-vampyre]

💋🔪❤️‍🔥

villanelle would have loved texting a spotify link of this song to eve and adding "well good luck lol" before being blocked by eve.

>> youtube

#killing eve #villaneve #villanelle #eve polastri #chappell roan #good luck babe #vid #vidding #edit

[thornyrose13]

Mr Miller & Cairo ♠ Ghosts (Miller's Girl)

"God, I'd give anything to feel that. A madman's love"

_______

Fandom: Miller's Girl (Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman)

♫ Music by Arkival:

1) Track: Inevitable

2) Track: Unavoidable Truth

#vidding #editing #fan video #edit #youtube #fanvidfeed #miller's girl #millers girl #jenna ortega #martin freeman #Mr Miller and Cairo #jenna ortega x reader #cairo sweet #jenna marie ortega #Mr Miller and Cairo edit #Miller's girl edit #Cairo and Miller #Youtube

[oveliagirlhaditright]

As the title says: this a Bangel amv I made for the "I Will Remember You" marathon going on right now (in 2023). I hope you guys like it:)

And sorry for the quality of some of the Angel footage. I couldn't find my Angel DVDs to be able to rip the footage, so had to record it from YouTube with my phone, if you can believe it. LOL

#bangel #i will remember you marathon #bangel i will remember you marathon #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #buffy #angel the series #ats #amv #music video #fancam #edit #video edit #video editing #editing #vidding #editing is art #sony vegas #mine #my work #shanna's various forms of art #buffy comics #buffy season 8 #buffy dark horse comics #Youtube #buffy season 12

[kuwdora]

My festivid assignment for runawaynun!! For All Mankind vid!!

Daughters music: “Daughters” by Lissie source: For All Mankind characters: WOMEN!! Danielle Poole, Tracy Stevens, Aleida Rosales, Karen Baldwin, Kelly Baldwin, Molly Cobb, Ellen Wilson, Margo Madison length: 3:27

vidder's note: seasons 1-3 only

download: right-click save as (44MB/mp4) - thank you to epershand for hosting!!

We are the daughters We are the sisters who Carry the water

➡️ also streaming on ao3

#I loveeee this show SO MUCH #so many incredible women #festivids #festivids 2023 #my vids #for all mankind #danielle poole #aleida rosales #tracy stevens #molly cobb #margo madison #kelly baldwin #karen baldwin #for all mankind edit #fanvids #fanvideo #fan video #vidding

[fabella-aka-wistfulfever]

The Boys, Billy Butcher x Hughie Campbell.

"Oh no, the canary is all dirty. What is Billy to do?"

The Boys, Billy Butcher x Hughie Campbell, seasons one through three.

A tender and violent examination of the the relationship and subtext between the characters Billy Butcher and Hughie Campbell of The Boys, with plenty of sexual tension and just buckets of angst. Major warnings for canon typical violence, mild nudity, bodily fluids of various sorts. I haven't vidded in an age, but here you go, I guess? Headphones recommended.

Enjoy.

#vidding #the boys #fanvid #butchie #billy butcher #hughie campbell #butcher x hughie #video by me #Youtube