MFT: One Minute of Anime Gasp Noises

These days Justin Whang is making rounds as an Internet folk historian with "Tales from the Internet Series". But back in the day, he was into supercuts. See me writing a couple of hundred words about one of them.



This is a one minute supercut of Anime Gasp Noises crudely culled together from different series in a relentless breakneck pace assortment that is as pointless as it is utterly hilarious. Just like Randy Savage vs Hulk Hogan breathing match - it is the thing that exists more in your mind than in reality. It is a form of a mental exercise to stretch the perception muscles and make them more capable in detecting something completely different within the fickle thickness of the mundane.

The thing is - our brain is looking for patterns to make sense of - all the time. It is a natural cognitive process. Its casual mode is subtle and unassuming dot connection. But sometimes, when the brain encounters something a little more dense and unusual it goes a bit haywire in order to digest the thing just for sake of digesting it. If done intentionally, it is a fine brain teaser that might result in some unexpected assumptions and conclusions.

This is why supercuts works so well. As a form of curiosity cataloguing - it takes certain things out of its original context and groups them together based on a unifying features. The resulting collection is quite discordant in its nature - a little bit of this and a little bit of that and also that thing because it is also like that. But by the mere fact of being crammed together, they start to merge together into something else while being perceived as a singular whole.

In other words - it is unintentional overcomplication of a throughaway jest.

Anime Gasp Noises supercut leaves out the inciting of the gasping while retaining the gasping itself. It comes with the fool in the air in the middle of the step and that is very disorienting. It bounces off the opaque into the vague and that does not bode well with the perception as there is a natural need to eliminate the unknown. However, there is no way the unknown would become known in the supercut and that leaves mild irritation that solidifies the impression of the video.

Since there is a throughline feature in all elements - it serves as a backbone for the makeshift narrative while bits and pieces of the original context provide dissociated breadcrumbs non-sequitir narrative. 

That's a very long and winding way of saying that this thing is really funny.