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Compilation Nation by Tom McCormack. According to Know Your Meme—an increasingly important database of meme histories that recently sold for an undisclosed seven-figure sum to Cheezburger Networks, a company that, despite or perhaps because of its absurd name, is starting to gain a lot of power on the Internet—the term supercut was first used by blogger Andy Baio in April 2008.

Compilation Nation by Tom McCormack

Baio's post ruminates on this montage created from ABC's Lost: Wrote Baio: This insane montage of (nearly) every instance of "What? " from the LOST series started me thinking about this genre of video meme, where some obsessive-compulsive superfan collects every phrase/action/cliche from an episode (or entire series) of their favorite show/film/game into a single massive video montage.

For lack of a better name, let's call them supercuts. Chronicle of wasted time » movies mentioned in Los Angeles Plays Itself (take 2) « Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies David Foster Wallace and Joan Didion podcasts » movies mentioned in Los Angeles Plays Itself (take 2)

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