What Is Supercut.org and What Does It Archive?
Supercut.org is a browsable archive of supercut videos — montages that collect many clips sharing a common word, phrase, trope, or visual motif. Andy Baio launched it in 2011 as part of Seven on Seven with Michael Bell-Smith, and redesigned it later that year as an archive of every supercut he could find. As of its 2026 refresh, the live collection holds over 580 videos, and anyone can suggest additions through the site's "Add" link.
What counts as a supercut
A supercut is a compilation built around a single repeated element — a catchphrase, a gesture, a shot type, a line of dialogue — edited together so the repetition itself becomes the point. The archive is organized around that definition rather than around genre or source material, so it mixes film, TV, news, and internet footage.
A history of going offline and coming back
The site's uptime has been uneven, which matters if you remember it disappearing:
- 2011 — launched as part of Seven on Seven, then redesigned as a browsable archive.
- End of 2015 — taken offline entirely after Baio's server was hacked. He migrated to a new server, but Supercut.org didn't make the transition and stayed down for five years.
- 2020 — brought back after he audited the site's old PHP for security holes.
- 2026 — a long-overdue design refresh, retiring the basic Bootstrap theme and making the site responsive while keeping the overall layout.
What changed in the 2026 refresh
The refresh was mostly cleanup rather than reinvention:
- Unavailable videos were removed, and deleted videos were replaced with alternatives where Baio could find them.
- The long backlog of submissions was cleared.
- New supercuts were added, many drawn from Max Tohline's A Supercut of Supercuts: Aesthetics, Histories, Databases.
- The live collection reached over 580 videos.
Videos go missing for ordinary reasons — deleted, privatized, removed for copyright infringement, or made inaccessible by Vimeo — so expect the archive to be a moving target rather than a fixed catalog.
How to browse or contribute
Browsing is the default use: the site works as an archive you page through rather than a search-driven database. If you know a supercut that isn't listed, the "Add" link lets you suggest it. Baio describes clearing the submission backlog as tedious work, so submissions may not appear immediately.
Where it fits among Baio's projects
Supercut.org is one of several long-running side projects on Waxy.org, alongside Playfic — the interactive fiction community he launched in 2012 with his then-teenaged nephew Cooper and retired in 2026 after 14 years — plus XOXO, Upcoming, Belong.io, and Kind of Bloop. The 2026 refreshes of the blog, Supercut.org, and Playfic's retirement were part of the same quiet round of maintenance across those projects.