😛 😀 😀 😀 !!!! $$# ragha arugh pi pii pi squeez VLC%%%charflit, flarhfit. The most interesting part of that story wound up being a guy with a few dozen YouTube views who posted videos with this effect like they were home movies, and he seemed to actually speak in a language made up of compression artefacts, and he showed up in comments and said, insightfully I thought:ĭrul pixel the. And so, among others, we recently saw on CDM the music video Evident Utensil, a video that intentionally (ironically?) overused that effect until you started seeing missing p-frames and i-frames in real life and/or threw something at your computer in disgust. Here’s the story so far: there’s a compression artefact created when videos are compressed improperly, which causes frames to melt into one another like wax. Challenges obscenely-gifted motion artist David O’Reilly to a rumble. Forbids the use of the word datamoshing in future.ģ. In which this humble author, with tongue sometimes planted in cheek:Ģ.