On March 25th, 2012, the /r/brokengifs subreddit was launched, featuring animated GIFs created using datamoshing techniques. On May 16th, 2011, YouTuber Yung Jake uploaded a music video titled 'Datamosh,' which included a variety of compression artifacts (shown below). You apply incredible Datamosh effects on your video by just 1-click. Within the first four years, the video gathered more than 10.3 million views and 11,400 comments. Datamosh is a new way of bringing your videos to Glitch and Datamoshing with stunning mosh filters. On June 16th, rapper Kanye West released the music video for his song 'Welcome to the Heartbreak' (shown below), which featured many datamoshed video artifacts. On February 24th, 2009, YouTuber datamosher uploaded a datamosh instructional video (shown below, left). On August 2nd, 2007, YouTuber Michael Crowe uploaded a video titled 'Takeshi Murata,' which featured a montage of datamoshed videos (shown below). In 2006, a technique created by artists Betrand Planes and Christian Jacquemin transcodes one lossy video format into another was demonstrated with the modified DivX video codec DivXPrime. What's a datamosh Here's an example made by someone who wasn't me The mosh works out of the box and produces videos ready for social media sites like Twitter but I left extensive notes in the program to help you adjust settings and understand what's happening. According to the tech blog Bit_Synthesis published a post titled 'Datamoshing – the Beauty of Glitch,' the practice of datamoshing had been used by digital artists since at least 2005.
