• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Don’t forget that adding anime tiddies to the cover art and/or thumbnail is also mandatory these days.

    I don’t trust the official history of this sort of thing. I maintain that this whole thing got popularized by the Caramelldansen debacle. In the good old days, if a DJ wanted to speed up a track to make it up-tempo for dance floor use it was also mandatory to add some drum and bass elements, and if you had access to the split tracks probably just reinvent the bassline, hook, and melody altogether. You know, things that took actual effort.

    Nowadays anybody can open an .mp3 in Audacity and speed it up by 30% and call it a “remix.”

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      5 months ago

      Thats sad if they actually consider what they are doing art. Ive been out of the loop for a while but when I saw people making this stuff 15 years ago, it seemed like a thing a niche community was doing. I dont think anyone took it seriously. I still find songs that sound better sped up like this one is very funny try this one at 1.5 or 1.75 speed. Game changer kinda hits like rapgod from eminem

      https://youtu.be/4c82n0dex0k

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          5 months ago

          True. But at the same time If little to no effort is being put in, it does ride the line of being fair use. So if they are monitizing it which i dont think they were doing 15 years ago I find that kind of scummy. but other than that i look at it as the same thing as those AMVs back in the day. Just something someone made for the love of the source material.

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              5 months ago

              I cannot find it, but my gf showed me this tiktok where a person made an extremely compentent remix within the fortnite music mode. It was a completely original work made of songs within fortnite it was very impressive. All that is to say Im not a fan of low effort work when just a small amount more could turn it into something new and interesting. Monitizing it is just an extra fu imo.

              I do get what youre saying about struggling for money, but even so ive seen street artists with some insane talent and or ingenuity. Im of the belief that everyone can practice at something and make a living off of it even if its something wed consider mundane like… sweeping a floor. Im going to look up a professional sweeper right now on youtube and find someone with insane skill. And im sure the same is true with any task or art.