Also called party tapes or video compilations, this phenomenon comes from the days of Betamax and VHS, when home editing and duplication became possible for the masses.
Favorite sources include "home-shopping channel and public-access television bloopers, scenes from sleazy splatter B-movies, amazing news footage, bizarre pornography, strange homemade video projects, extreme sports, disasters and mishaps captured on film, or foreign television gone mad.
"[1] The emergence of high-speed internet provided an easy and cheap means to download and swap videos online.
The ability to edit videos with free software on consumer computers no longer requires an expert to produce mixtapes.
Most modern video mixtapes are released on DVD and through internet download.