Meta in Stop Motion: a case study of ‘Komaneko’s First Step’

Abstract

Meta in Stop Motion aims to study the self-referential meta in popular culture, determining the possible identifiers in which forms of meta each media can be aligned with, be it a partial one or a complete one. The article analyses the stop motion ‘Komaneko’s First Step’ released in dwarfstudio’s YouTube Channel, as it portrays the creation of a stop motion, where the medium itself is also a stop motion, author will try to determine whether it can be classified as a self-referential meta or just another meta piece by examining other meta media, pointing out key identifiers of what contribute as meta, then juxtapose outcomes as the deciding factors.