Anji Liu – Suree Violence – FESCH.TV

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Supreme Violence is a 7-minute long supercut style video essay consisting of videos found on YouTube. They were categorized into four different scales, the first being mass explosions and destruction. The second, being firearms, the third is the cold weapons, and the last is bare hands. The video challenges our fascination with violence through both real-life and simulated footage. It also challenges Youtube’s community guidelines for violence. Though every footage was found on youtube since it was put together in a condensed fashion, the video essay was somehow still banned by the algorithm for being too violent. As a virtual community, Youtube controls what we watch every day; they also have the authority to define the limit of violent videos.