Video clip (online media)

A video clip is a form of a short video that involves a small portion of a longer recording of a video (often from various sources such as movies (from both professional and amateur sources), television shows or entertainment videos) that is uploaded onto the Internet.

Video clips are popular among certain groups of people, especially young ones (specifically those of Millennials (aka Generation Y), Generation Z and Alpha), shaping modern Internet culture. Video clips emerged during the early days of the World Wide Web in the 1990s before growing in popularity in the 2000s with the creation of video sharing sites such as YouTube.

Video clips can be of any format, whether as standard video (using any available video resolution) or vertical video, and can be up to several minutes long depending on the content being used. Such content may include internet memes, out-of-context snippets, and many others. They can also be used to attract the public to the user's other accounts or other long-form contents.

The term is also used more loosely to mean any video program, including a full program, uploaded onto a website or other medium.

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