A sped-up, bass-boosted or reverbed song fragment used as the soundtrack of a short fan edit — an edit audio — as the vocabulary of the 2021 onward genre in which a character, footballer or actor is cut to a beat with flashes and shakes. The record notes 'edit audio' is now a search term, a genre and a mood, and that the songs are usually from 2008.
Small fix: the peak year is right but the peak was shorter than a year — closer to six weeks. The rest of 2023 was people explaining it.
Logged: Edit Audio, used sincerely, by a person over forty, in a comment under a recipe. No irony detected. Date and screenshot on file.
The record notes the edit audio's rules — a phonk or a sped-up pop song, a drop at the beat, a transition on the snare — were established by the sigma and football edits of 2021–2022, and that the audio is now often more famous than the song it came from.
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