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Animutation is that genre of Flash where someone posts pictures from around the Internet in a flash animation and sets them to music (like that dancing guinea pig video).

It's existed for a while, there just hasn't been a name for it. The term 'animutation' was coined by Internet celeb Neil Cicierega, who is famous for supposedly making the first animutations (actually, he didn't).
Neil's first animutation was The Japanese Pokerap, but that was total shit, so most people say it was "Hyakugojyuuichi" (it means 151 in Japanese and is pronounced "hya-ku-go-JEW-i-chi")< Weeboo. 

[[Image:Hyakugojyuuichi.gif|frame|This should give you an idea what to expect]]
[[Image:shumway.jpg|thumb|A classic, [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/49639]]]

This flash became a hit on [[Newgrounds]], and Neil soon went on to produce more works. People began to imitate him with videos done in the same style. Verylowsodium (another animutator) sums the history of animutation up best: "Once upon a time, some guy took a copy of an overpriced animation utility and animated a bunch of strange pop-culture images sent to even stranger [[Japanese]] music. Like moths to a flame, a dozen copycats completely ripped off the idea, starting a freaky movement." The movement continues to this day, but as more and more people have
found out about it, the quality of the animutations has declined. The beginning of the end was heralded by the Animutation Portal, started by one such "artist" named [[User:Mudi|Mudi]]. Now that many people had heard about this "new" genre,[[ teenagers]] who were too [[indie]] for [[Newgrounds]] could post their shitty Flashes. The "new generation of animutators," as some Portal denizen put it, have made flashes characterized by references in place of humor, crappy animation, pointless secret messages, and mondegreens that don't mean anything funny.
[[Image:chew.jpg|thumb|A "new" animutation [http://www.geocities.com/hotorus/rocket.html]]]                  

==How to create an Animutation for Animutation Portal==
[[Image:Animutation.gif|thumb|Throw quality out the window, just as long as Hyakugojyuuichi is referenced '''SOMEWHERE.''']]
1: Go steal yourself a copy of Flash.

2: Raid [[Google]] Image search. Images you will need: Colin Mochrie. Do not question this.

3: Go find yourself a song. Does not matter what song, as long as it's not english. Also does not matter if the song is terrible and sounds like a [[fat|whale]] having [[sex]], as long as it's [[azn|japanese]]

4: Go onto the Animutation Portal Message Board and Advertise your peice of [[shit]] in the making.

5: Slap together your animutation. Be sure to include plenty of obscure references to past Animutations, like spitting out "Yatta" every 10 frames. Characters who appear quite often in in older animutations like [[nesshelper|Pee Wee Herman]], [[Goatse|Jay Jay the Jetplane]], and [[pedo|Lesko]] should also be included.  If you find yourself doing anything other than motion-tweening bitmaps, you are [[idiot|working too hard]].

6: Don't forget to include seizure inducing frames of animation, so that when people start to watch you can hope they will get sick and die. That's worth a couple of [[lulz]], [[amirite]]?

7: Hidden Messages are nessessary. Make sure half your animation is full of 1 frame hidden messages. This makes your flash interactive, cause it makes [[nerds|Hardcore Colin Nerds]] want to replay and try to catch the hidden message. However, Normal People won't give a fuck and will not bother to watch your [[crap|hard work]] more than once.

8: Pray to your lord, Colin. May he grant you a bountiful flash. He won't cause he's an [[canada|ice nigger]]

9: Get your flash posted onto the Animutation Portal, and then go onto their [[wiki]] and include a bunch of [[shit nobody cares about|factoids]] about all the obscure [[goatse|references]] your flash has.

10: [[????]]

11: [[PROFIT]]!!!

==External Links==
*[http://www.eviltrailmix.com Neil's site]
*[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/18702 Hyakugojyuuichi]
*[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/yatta.php A supremely sardonic animutation]
*[http://www.animutationportal.com The downfall of animutation]
*[http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156456210969&call_pageid=970599119419 An article on the topic]

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