Vent

A vent edit is what happens when an editor expressed their feelings in the form of an edit. The feelings are most often negative, and as a result, the videos themselves tend to be quite dark, focusing on topics such as mental illness, suicide, and the loss of loved ones, and often featuring such aesthetic choices as glitch effects, greyscale clips, and smoke overlays. Positive ones also exist, but are rare to the point that vent videos are often assumed to have dark subject matter. Editors may post these videos online, or keep them strictly private. Some are very abstract, and others use specific characters to represent specific people in the editors' life. There are no specific rules as to what, exactly, a "vent" video must be, due to the fact that the entire point of such edits is self-expression.

See also: Animash, alternate universe