Amv?
Anime music video
This is one of my constant frustrations on Lemmy too. People constantly dropping abbreviations with no explanation, assuming their cultural background is universal.
It is wild that this post about a harmless abbreviation that refers to cringey (but endearing to me) narrow slice of early-mid 2000s internet culture got this reaction out of you. Something that could be ignored or looked up.
Be it Lemmy or the communities you stumble upon, but perhaps some introspection about how you respond and interact with the internet could use a revisit.
Ok armchair psych, take a chill pill
Yeah it’s a CFoL for me too.
Fucks a cfol. You just pulled that out your ass didn’t you
Definitely a ptoya post
AMV has been around for years now. Plus, this was likely posted to a community that knows what an amv is and never intended for here
While years is technically correct, we’re at the “decades” mark on amvs
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard the initialism AMV or not (though I’ve watched plenty of them), but even not knowing what it was it was pretty easy to figure out from context (though i thought “animated” instead of “anime”, but close enough anyway)
Some acronyms and initialisms, I don’t really get why they’re so hard for people, especially in context
Yeah, it’s like these foreign language posts. Don’t they know not everyone speaks German?
Sometimes this is totally fair, but I think any abbreviation that instantly comes up on google is fair game. IIRC, TIL, AMV, BRB, IRL, IKR, etc.
All of those but AMV are really common. Amv is not. IKR might not be that common but I knew it. In any case, all of those are sentence abbreviation but amv is a noun, its different.
My point wasn’t about how common they were, it was about how easy it is to find out what they mean. I don’t think it matters whether we’re shortening a common phrase or a noun, any search engine will tell you that AMV stands for anime (or animated) music video. Contrast that with something like MIL, which you can’t easily search up (it usually stands for mother-in-law)
My point is that I shouldn’t be expected to use a search engine to understand terms of a post in a generically themed community, it costs nothing for the user to put the definition. How common the term is IS something to consider when deciding to put the definition or not. Considering that the most up voted and commented comment is about the term not being recognised, I’d say that my point stands.
MIL should have the same thing unless it’s being used in a thematic community like relationship advice. It’s common practice for a document that has shortened terms to have parenthesis with the full definition the first time they are used, and in a post thstbwould be the title or the body of the post.
plugs “what is AMV” into DDG
Answer received after 4 seconds of reading
I’m sorry, but this is a skill issue.
Bruh who the hell does not know amv come on man
All the Linkin Park
Frou Frou “Must be Dreaming”: mid-level song
RahXephon: mid-level anime
Koopiskeva, “Euphoria”: god-tier AMV
Craaaaawling iiiin my skiiiin~~
It just isn’t the same without videos of Sasuke with a black and white filter and all of the film grain
I mean, my initial introduction to Nightwish was the Wishmaster Misheard Lyrics video. And for a while I always looked for that video to hear that song. Not too weird to do it like that.
Same scenario for me, but for Six by All That Remains. The misheard lyrics were better than the real lyrics.
That’s a mood, yeah.
Master!
A dentist!
Hard porn!
Steven seagull!
