The rest of the exchange is by now as infamous as it is embarrassing.

'You went all the way out to, like, the middle of fucking nowhere,' Grim shot back, leading Watters in Terkel's direction. 'Bring her over, bring her over.' (Terkel, it was clear, had no interest in Grim's shenanigans and had shrunk back into the crowd.) Grim turned on his phone camera and zeroed in on Watters.įor a few minutes, Watters played along. 'So I wanted to give him a dose of his own medicine.' 'I thought he was an obnoxious frat boy who just went around bullying people,' Grim would later explain to Insider. When someone mentioned Watters' presence at the party, Grim saw an opportunity to flip the script and get Watters to apologize to Terkel on camera. Grim thought the incident with Terkel crossed a line. There, on camera, he'd accosted her with angry questions about 'why I was causing 'pain and suffering' to rape victims and their families,' Terkel would later recall. Watters had followed her from her home in Washington, DC, to a small beach town in Virginia where she was vacationing.

Standing nearby was Ryan Grim, then the DC bureau chief for Huffington Post, and Grim's friend and colleague, the liberal blogger Amanda Terkel.įive years earlier, Terkel had landed in O'Reilly's crosshairs after she criticized a victims'-rights organization for having O'Reilly speak at a fundraiser. It often indicates a user profile.Īt the time, Watters was best known for pulling off elaborately planned ambush interviews on 'The O'Reilly Factor,' then Fox News' top-rated show. On March 25th, 2012, the /r/brokengifs subreddit was launched, featuring animated GIFs created using datamoshing techniques.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. On May 16th, 2011, YouTuber Yung Jake uploaded a music video titled 'Datamosh,' which included a variety of compression artifacts (shown below).

Within the first four years, the video gathered more than 10.3 million views and 11,400 comments. 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. 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.

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