Metavid
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A metavid is a songvid about vidding or, more broadly speaking, a vid about fandom (or in some cases, specific tropes of a fandom or of vidding/vidders). One early metavid, Pressure (~1990) by Sterling Eidolan and The Odd Woman Out depicts three vidders making a VCR vid over the course of a single weekend.
Another earlier metavid poked fun at the Highlander fandom and its vidders. At the height of Highlander's popularity, especially of the Duncan/Methos slash pairing, dozens and dozens of vids were created using the same extremely limited amount of footage of the two characters together. (One scene in particular, a shot of Duncan painting Methos's nose with white paint, became a point of annoyance with a lot of viewers.) The Media Cannibals (Alexfandra in particular, ~1999) made use of the overuse to create It's All Been Done, showing how everything in Highlander vids had "all been done before."
Notable metavids
- Walking On The Ground by Seah & Margie (multi)
- Us by Lim (multi)
- I Put You There by Laura Shapiro & Lithiumdoll (Buffy)
- The Glass by Thingswithwings (multi)
- Destiny Calling by counteragent (multi)
- I Love Fandom by Barkley (original footage)
- Supersmart by Speranza (SGA)
- Failed Experiments in Video Editing by Big Big Truck (anime and original art)
- Still Alive by counteragent (SPN)
- A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness by Clucking Belles (multi)
