This video was originally entered into a Eurovision contest circa early 2000s, and was essentially a meme for a while due to its absurdity. But what is important here is that there is a video synthesizer or video feedback machine that is being used to add special effects. It is also being filmed with something from the 80s to give it that specific aesthetic. Surprisingly this video is not in anyway related to Telefantasy. However there was no credit for who the producer was.
Smut Cave is a web series ran by a man named Spelunker, and is about showcasing weird sex fetishes. The reason I added it to this list was because it was similar to Max Headroom in the sense that there was random things happening throughout the episode. Sort of like it was intentionally random access television, which is something that JJ has specifically said she grew up with.
I haven't figured out yet if FatherLongLegs is a curator of these videos, but he is similar to the video artist named Beta Carnage (of CarnageTV on youtube/vimeo) they have an assortment of betamax tapes they have kept for years and take weird, strange and off things and put them to music. Black Moth Super Rainbow and Tobacco are frequent musical collaborators with them.
Tonetta is straight up a modern musician who makes youtube music videos in his house. He's a recluse artist who sings about fetishes. (There is a reoccurring theme here.....) He intentionally films on older equipment to make the 80s effect going on in all of his videos. He's never talked about his aesthetic but I personally think he makes his videos look like this because his music sounds very static and noisey.
Emily Youcis is an animator who is famous for being the Pistachio girl at baseball games with a funny accent. She is also a collaborator with Smut Cave and is actually the reason I looked up Smut Cave's work because Emily's videos have a random access edge to them that is very very obvious. Also playing around with the green screen and edges is interesting to me because it adds to the Telefantasy aesthetic of having visible edges.





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