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title: "Animutation"
canonical: "https://openvibe.meme/m/animutation"
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# Animutation

HTML: [Animutation](https://openvibe.meme/m/animutation)

Internet meme · Classic

# 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.

- First seen: 2001-01-01
- Last seen: 2026-10-31
- Uses cited: 3
- Revision: 2

## 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. 2001-01-01

    

   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. 2001-01-01

    

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

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