Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I agree with what you're saying in large part, but as one of the dreaded acafen I don't want to have destroyed the very thing that compelled me into fandom in the first place. (Vidding doesn't seem to have had as much defensive -- and I wish there were a more neutral term for that -- reaction to "literary" trends. Such reactions often tip over into anti-intellectualism when people are fighting about ways of reading fan fiction, even though both sides are defending their pleasures. Maybe -- wild speculation -- vidders are systematically more likely to agree that frame-by-frame analysis is deeply pleasurable. But then I obviously mean "vidders who are likely to go to Vividcon." It's not clear to me that feral vidders have interlaced with fan-trained vidders to the same extent as fan fiction audiences have overlapped.)
Anyway, LKBV is a defensive reaction, in the sense of defending a certain type of emotional experience, but one that largely accepts the technical/ironic terms of debate. And I want to keep making my overemotional, fandom-specific vids without having to call them LKBVs. I'd even like them to be moderately proficient, though I will probably never use After Effects.
Slight tangent -- SGA may be the fanfic equivalent of the LKBV for many writers. Because of the way the fandom has arranged itself (hmm, I have hidden the agency there, but oh well), there is permission to do a lot of wild things that might raise eyebrows in other fandoms (other than HP, the ultimate feral fandom, and DCU, where the canon always got there ahead of you). Now that I think about it, SGA is often about embracing your elaborate fantasy and taking it as far as you can go, and maybe that means that the "intensely emotional" side of fandom is expanding in its own way, just like the "technical" side, creating more varieties for everyone to select exactly what her taste is. Lots of people accept RPS without shame; why not mpreg and "aliens made us do it"?
Of course, I'm in the midst of reviewing The Long Tail, so maybe I'm projecting.
Re: LKBV
Anyway, LKBV is a defensive reaction, in the sense of defending a certain type of emotional experience, but one that largely accepts the technical/ironic terms of debate. And I want to keep making my overemotional, fandom-specific vids without having to call them LKBVs. I'd even like them to be moderately proficient, though I will probably never use After Effects.
Slight tangent -- SGA may be the fanfic equivalent of the LKBV for many writers. Because of the way the fandom has arranged itself (hmm, I have hidden the agency there, but oh well), there is permission to do a lot of wild things that might raise eyebrows in other fandoms (other than HP, the ultimate feral fandom, and DCU, where the canon always got there ahead of you). Now that I think about it, SGA is often about embracing your elaborate fantasy and taking it as far as you can go, and maybe that means that the "intensely emotional" side of fandom is expanding in its own way, just like the "technical" side, creating more varieties for everyone to select exactly what her taste is. Lots of people accept RPS without shame; why not mpreg and "aliens made us do it"?
Of course, I'm in the midst of reviewing The Long Tail, so maybe I'm projecting.