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.
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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