VFX

Datamosh

Frames bleed into one another and the colour smears.

Datamosh — Frames bleed into one another and the colour smears.

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How this one runs

From your photo · 5s · 1080p · KLING 3.0 TURBO

What this effect is

Datamoshing comes from deliberately breaking video compression: the keyframes are deleted while the motion vectors survive, so old pixels smear across the new scene. It is an intentional defect that became an art technique in late-2000s music video.

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