[Tsuwabuki]

I'm from a pre-YouTube generation, and only think about it as an afterthought when it comes to Anime Music Videos. Statistics say that A-M-V.org is dying, and I am curious as to who here, if anyone, gets AMVs from A-M-V.org? Are AMVs even actually saved by people anymore? Is there any respect for the craftsmanship involved?

My generation is even pre-A-M-V.org, when we ran our own servers off of college connections, and most AMVs were discovered either via the AMV Mailing List or the very early peer to peer programs. Often times, links only would be traded, and the AMVs would be stored on those above mentioned private servers.

I get a sense that recent anime fans are much less likely than earlier waves of fans to be interested in A-M-V.org, or actually possessing copies of the videos produced. It all seems to be about cloud-computing where YouTube and the like are used as surrogates for personal storage.

As an AMV editor from the very beginning of AMVs, this concerns me, and does not match the values I hold for my creations.