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Originally Posted by totoum

As Kyuu said MAD and AMVs are the same thing,they don't have there set of rules

This is an AMV that does more than randomly put clips together

Well, there are a couple of ways to go about it. I already said that generally, I agree with Kyuu's approach (and follow it instinctively). Animated Music Videos don't sound limited to slapping random clips together to me either. And in effect, I don't see why it would be different from a MAD. But the popular use of terms dictates them as different and I don't see a reason to be stubborn and not comply if it facilitates communication. The purpose of language, or rather, taxonomy, isn't to be correct or efficient but to let people reach a common set of knowledge as quickly and as easily as possible. If using MADs to describe a certain sort of videos helps me grab the attention of a lot of people who call them MADs and consider them different from AMVs, I will call them MAD and treat them as different from AMVs. It's a superficial distinction and an incorrect one but it doesn't really matter. I just categorize videos as they label themselves.