Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2023: Week 41

A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness (also known as Hot! Hot! Hot!) is a multifandom metavid by the vidding group Clucking Belles (Sandy Herrold and Rachael Sabotini). It premiered at Vividcon 2005 during the Club Vivid show, and has often been featured in vid shows since.

The vid is a compilation of clips from various different films and television shows, set to the song 'Hot Hot Hot' by Buster Poindexter (David Johansen). It was made to display the fannish sexual appeal of different visual tropes in media, such as smoking, undressing, nudity, crossdressing, and bondage, among many other tropes.

The vid has been the subject of analysis by both fans and academics, often in the context of the female gaze. In June 2013, the vid was selected to be part of the vidding segment in the Museum of the Moving Image exhibition "Cut Up" which celebrated "the practice of re-editing popular media to create new work."