aesthetic history of YTP
Originators of Youtube Poop? Frankly, if we were to include a comprehensive list of people that helped influence the artform, from those YTP creators have denoted to proto-YTP media that was shared widely in the community, I’d be here all day trying to do so. And even so, somebody would inevitably message me and ask, “hey, Liebermintz, why didn’t you mention this? why didn’t you mention that?” And my answer is always, “I knew that existed, I just didn’t think about at the time.” YTP has a lot of its stylistic origin in the 1980s, largely through the cinema and art scenes. However, the techniques used in YTP didn’t originate then. No, they originate much earlier – the dawn of film. There have always been comedic edits of cartoons, newsreel footage, movie clips, public domain footage, etc. that played around with what each character/personality/actor was saying, ever since film editing was codified in the 1910s. In the 1920s, with the Soviet school of filmmakers, yo