Fan videos have been a common and popular form of fan creations since the age of VHS, even before digital editing made the entire process easier and more accessible. Fan videos, sometimes shortened to "fan vids" are video montages featuring scenes from one or more popular culture piece set to a music track.

In The Power of Fan Videos: Deconstruct, Explore, Reclaim, film and media scholar Natacha Guyot, PhD explores fan videos from multiple angles: the practice of creating fan videos can have its place in scholarly media work, alternate universe fan videos a subgenre of fan videos that explore different paths from the original media, and how fan videos offer an alternative to traditional journaling.