Editing Slash fiction (section)

===Slash vidding===
[[Vidding]] has existed in media fandom since the 1980s, and slash vidding is still a popular movement within vidding.<ref>{{cite journal
| last        = Coppa
| first       = Francesca
|author-link  = Francesca Coppa
| year        = 2008
| title       = Women, Star Trek, and the early development of fannish vidding
| journal     = Transformative Works and Cultures
| volume      = 1
| doi         = 10.3983/twc.2008.0044
| doi-access= free
}}</ref> Slash vidders take clips of characters (generally ones not written as gay, or in a relationship together), and through juxtaposition, song choice, and other techniques, portray a slash relationship on screen.<ref name="jenkins-howto">{{cite web
| first       = Henry
| last        = Jenkins
|author-link  = Henry Jenkins
| title       = How to Watch a Fan-Vid
| url         = http://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/09/how_to_watch_a_fanvid.html
| publisher   = Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Webblog of [[Henry Jenkins]]
| date        = 18 September 2006
| access-date  = 15 August 2009
}}</ref> Vidding used to be very guarded within the slash community, among other reasons, because the songs used in videos are copyrighted. When vidders started putting their videos online, their sites were routinely password protected, etc.

Today, there are thousands of vids, and vid-like projects, available on YouTube and other video sites.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf9oD_xl8mI TNG episode 15 – "That Jean-Luc Picard"]. YouTube (04 February 2009). Retrieved on 17 October 2011.</ref> Many of these vids are made by slash (and gen) fans, but enormous numbers of them are made by people who have never heard of media fandom. The previous secrecy of vidding fans has come to seem unnecessary, but there is still a community ethos of not freely giving out a vidder's URL.