![]() On November 1st, 2011, Andy Baio announced the relaunch of the website in an article on Wired. In addition, contextual resources and reference sites like Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDB) and TV Tropes also accelerated the growth of Supercuts. The success of Supercuts can be also attributed to the rapid expansion of online resources, including video-sharing sites like YouTube, affordable editing software and peer-to-peer sharing services. This was followed by the "We've Got Company" montage by Guy Bauer on April 10th 2010. On December 13th, 2009, You Tube user dunk3d posted the earliest known Movie Cliché Supercut, showing a montage of people looking at an image on a computer screen and mindlessly saying "enhance" – a highly inaccurate depiction of what computer imaging software is capable of, which had infuriated nerds for years. It was a hit across the internet, and has spawned several sequels. The video, titled "I'm Not Here To Make Friends", is a 3 minute 20 second video of reality TV contestants exclaiming how they're "not here to make friend", they're "here to win". The first viral supercut video to deal specifically with clichés was compiled by Rich Juzwiak, an entertainment blogger who goes by the YouTube handle Richfofo on July 2nd, 2008. Internet culture blogs like Huffington Post Comedy and Slacktory also became known as regular publishers of Supercut videos. ![]() Some of the early YouTube trendsetters included Jesperc20, hh1edits, Bartoscar and Richfofo. On YouTube, various compilation videos made by fans of TV shows and film actors foreshadowed the arrival of Supercuts, most notably the montage of David Carusoe’s cheesy one-liners in CSI. But the quintessential formula of stitching repetitive, fast cuts didn’t arrive until the 2000s with experimental short features like Christian Marclay’s Telephones (1995), Jennifer & Kevin McCoy’s Every Anvil (2001) and Chuck Jones’ Buffies (2002). ![]() Film critic Tom McCormack provides a comprehensive history of supercut aesthetics in his blog post "Compilation Nation." Some of the earliest works have been attributed to video artist Bruce Conner’s 1958 found-footage feature A Movie and Dara Birnbaum’s 1978 Wonder Woman, while Hollywood employed similar techniques for various training sequences in martial arts films and sports dramas like Rocky. ![]()
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