![]() ![]() ![]() On March 25th, 2012, the /r/brokengifs subreddit was launched, featuring animated GIFs created using datamoshing techniques. On May 16th, 2011, YouTuber Yung Jake uploaded a music video titled "Datamosh," which included a variety of compression artifacts (shown below). Within the first four years, the video gathered more than 10.3 million views and 11,400 comments. On June 16th, rapper Kanye West released the music video for his song "Welcome to the Heartbreak" (shown below), which featured many datamoshed video artifacts. On February 24th, 2009, YouTuber datamosher uploaded a datamosh instructional video (shown below, left). On August 2nd, 2007, YouTuber Michael Crowe uploaded a video titled "Takeshi Murata," which featured a montage of datamoshed videos (shown below). Datamoshing is the process of manipulating the data of media files in order to achieve visual or auditory effects when the file is decoded. Datamoshing became popular as a visual effect in 2005 and was seen in use during live video sets and in music videos. In 2006, a technique created by artists Betrand Planes and Christian Jacquemin transcodes one lossy video format into another was demonstrated with the modified DivX video codec DivXPrime. Datamoshing itself is the process of intentionally damaging or combining the input from two media files to create distortion effects on playback. ![]() According to the tech blog Bit_Synthesis published a post titled "Datamoshing – the Beauty of Glitch," the practice of datamoshing had been used by digital artists since at least 2005. ![]()
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