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Animutation

Animutation is a form of web-based animation, typically in Flash, that uses unpredictable montages of pop-culture images set to music, often in a foreign language.

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Where it started

Animutation or fanimutation is a form of web-based computer animation, typically created in Adobe Flash and characterized by unpredictable montages of pop-culture images set to music, often in a language foreign to the intended viewers. It is not to be confused with manual collage animation (e.g., the work of Stan Vanderbeek and Terry Gilliam), which predates the Internet.

The use timeline

  1. Early Adobe Flash-based animations, pioneered by Neil Cicierega in 2001, typically featuring foreign language songs (primarily Japanese, such as "Yatta"), set to random pop-culture images. The form is said to have launched the use of Flash for inexpensive animations that are now more common on the Internet.

  2. Wikidata Q4765220: animutation — form of web-based computer animation.

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