Thirty Seconds to Mars’ This Is War still has a grip on YouTube kids
December 23, 2024

Thirty Seconds to Mars’ This Is War still has a grip on YouTube kids

I would hazard a guess that every popular animation in the 2010s had an AMV (animated music video) with “This Is War” from “30 Seconds to Mars” in the background. It turned out to be this A song from a fan-edited music video that I would never be able to hear if I didn’t think about how to edit it into whatever medium I’m currently obsessed with. (Now the latest dragon age game. I can imagine the “Liar” lyrics in the second verse superimposed on “Solas”…)

From the moment the song came out in 2009, it was expected to be a hit within fan culture. it actually debuted with the soundtrack Dragon Age: Originsthe fact is I, An avid Dragon Age fan.it wasn’t until I started writing this article that I realized—

Wait, wait, this totally distorts my thinking. Excuse me?

Okay, back to the point. The official BioWare trailer doesn’t actually explain what it is about this song that has so many anime fans in particular: that is, the lyrics basically just sort and categorize different types of people, warning them all about what’s to come in the vague threat, making it perfect Projected to. It’s general enough to apply to basically anything (fascism and demons) Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Or the epic highs and lows of high school volleyball Haijiu!), but also specific enough to allow fans to put some interesting labels on their beloved characters.

Jared Leto croons “good guys” and “bad guys,” which is pretty basic (usually reserved for group photos of good guys vs. bad guys), but as the lyrics go on, we start to get into funky lines like ” Archetypes” the “Prophet” (usually an older, wiser mentor character) and the “Victor” (usually an arrogant character, sometimes an antihero or minor villain turned good). Sometimes, if the media allows it, these labels will be literal, even if they don’t exactly fit. But the best fan experiences happen when the tags are very loose and based solely on one-word descriptions of the overall vibe, because it’s actually fun to see how many people agree on the character traits represented by these sparse archetypes.

Correctly classifying the characters in the This War archetype is an art. I thought about it Way Too many. Every time I get into a new show, game, or movie, I immediately start picking up characters in “This Is War” fan videos. This is no exaggeration. I do have a Google Doc. and it has all categories dragon age gameso in fact this song Introducing Dragon Age: Origins Now it really blows my mind, oh my god.

OK sorry. I will stop being distracted.

I didn’t become an anime fan until later in life, but I’m still aware of the proliferation of This Is War AMVs. I’ve always existed in a parallel fandom space, so my first exposure to this phenomenon was young justice 2012AMV. (If we want to get technical, only anime fan videos fall under the AMV tag, which would exclude young justicebut I use this term very loosely. “Avatar: The Last Airbender”, harry potterhell, even game of Thrones – It will most likely have a “This Is War” fan video.

from that moment on Star Wars fan Kandy Fong After whipping out a slide projector and cassette tape at a convention in 1975, video editing has been an important part of the fandom ecosystem. Today, with TikTok as the main hub, trends tend to short film collection arrive specific song lyricsrather than a full music video. Every expression of fan video is valid, but I grew up in the This Is War era, so those AMVs will always have a very special place in my heart.

Now I know I have a deep connection to this 30 Seconds to Mars song which is, frankly, fundamentally good even Deeper, because not only is it intertwined with my first-time online fandom experience, but also Closely related to my favorite video game series.



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