cw for blood, animated animal violence in video

So I like watching people's indie animations of CGI critters (as one does) and I'm not especially picky about the species, so that ended up with youtube nudging me towards the extensive Paleo youtube community. I'm not a dinosaur connoisseur by any means but I like learning about extinct species and animal reconstruction, so I enjoy watching those kinds of videos as well.

So Kaiju youtube is close cousins with Paleo youtube (a lot of the same people who like seeing big scaly animals slap the shit out of each other also enjoy watching even bigger scaly animals slapping the shit out of each other, go figure) so occasionally I'll get something from that circle recommended to me too.

I find it to be really charming. Obviously there's a lot of fan wanking about power levels and who would beat whom in a fight, whether the Legendary Godzilla movies are any good, etc. But there's also a lot of passionate young animators learning the ropes and getting inspired by other animators in the community. This video creator developed their own original Kaiju (El Gran Maja) which has gone on to inspire a lot of artists to make their own fanworks based on it including, of course, battles with Godzilla.

The enshittification of the internet continues, but I still enjoy passing through communities like this and seeing people creating things and excitedly discussing it with one another.