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Supercut videos started appearing on [[YouTube]] shortly after the site's creation in 2005.<ref name="wired">{{cite magazine | url = https://www.wired.com/story/supercut-video-rise-and-fall/ | title = I'm Not Here To Make Friends: The Rise And Fall Of The Supercut Video | first = Brian | last = Raftery | date = August 30, 2018 | access-date = August 30, 2018 | magazine = [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] }}</ref> The concept grew in popularity after culture writer [[Andy Baio]] covered supercuts in a blog entry in April 2008, which he described them as "genre of video meme, where some obsessive-compulsive superfan collects every phrase/action/cliche from an episode (or entire series) of their favorite show/film/game into a single massive video montage."<ref>{{cite web|last=Baio|first=Andy|title=Fanboy Supercuts, Obsessive Video Montages|url=http://waxy.org/2008/04/fanboy_supercuts_obsessive_video_montages/|access-date=5 January 2014|date=Apr 11, 2008|quote=This insane montage of (nearly) every instance of "What?" from the LOST series started me thinking about this genre of video meme … For lack of a better name, let's call them '''supercuts'''.}}</ref>
 
The timing for supercuts's popularity aligned with the early history of the Internet, where there was weaker enforcement of [[copyright]] that allowed people to both obtain footage by questionable means and share the supercuts with others, and with the availability of easy tools to assemble such supercuts (such as [[iMovie]] and [[Adobe Premiere Pro]]).<ref name="wired"/> Around 2010, content owners began to exert copyright control on their products online, including taking down some supercut videos, thus making the prospect of creating a supercut video risky.
 
==Decline of popularity==