Thank you! This is genuinely fascinating to me. I've never been part of either vidding community, but I've consumed enough vids that I feel I understand what you're talking about? Though I absolutely could not have put any of it in words.

To me it feels like the divide between classic Western vidding (the LJ style, I guess) and anime music videos which are all superfast cuts and effects. Though my guess there was that anime footage can seem really static, so those cuts and effects have evolved to give AMVs more oomph? Which isn't the case for Marvel at all - they always come across as really busy to me.

But yeah, lots to chew on here! Thanks again for sharing.