There's a bunch of early Doctor Who episodes that got lost in a fire. It ruins an attempt at actually watching the entire series from start to finish. Which is sad especially since the first doctor was the best one. They went on historical adventures with cavemen and Aztecs and stuff like a time travel show ought to and it wasn't always just made up aliens all the time.
yeah the BBC used to reuse/destroy masters from the 60s until the late 70s/early 80s. Doctor Who has been fortunate in that it had a pretty dedicated fanbase that were taping even back then and a lot were sold to foreign television stations for broadcasting, and many were recovered because those stations didn't destroy them. But other shows aren't as lucky. There was some police procedural that ran for \~20 years in the UK, and basically only 50 out of \~450 episodes that were aired survive.
All I want to find and view are the original Bill Cosby "Jello Tree" commercials.
The "Hey Kids! Get out of that Jello tree!"
ones. Not the Jello pudding or any of that.
There were several and one had a mail in advert for jello fruit molds.
Can't find em anywhere.
Probably a bunch of lost films from the silent era.
The problem is "lost media" is framed as some kind of creepypasta cursed video that's always "mysterious" or "haunting" and when its sold like that to endless youtubers obsessed with it, of course not.
This is the fate of everything. And there won't even be memories left because no one will be there to remember them. Every atom in this universe was at one point everything else and will be everything else again.
"WORLD'S MOST ANNOYING LAUGH" might be one. was a video of this incredibly obese guy sitting in his chair laughing and it sounded really funny. guy was barely moving his face muscles or anything. then at the end of it after it crescendos you hear a sound effect of a gun load and fire. can't find the video anymore.
I mean I kind of get what you're saying. The genre has grown into something different from how it started, I think lost media in some form has always been a thing just not very popular necessarily. Then one day Creepypastas crossed over into the genre and they became inseparably entangled. Sewer slide mouse, I feel fantastic, candle cove, polybius, the list goes on. The genre exploded and brought with it a lot of attention towards actual lost media. I think when people discovered that a lot of these projects were fake or very easy to find a lot of people wanted a real Challenge and started actually trying to find lost media. And now I feel like we're getting to a point where we're starting to get over saturated with this stuff. But on the flip side, a lot of really cool Mysteries that have been solved by the community. I even have one myself.
Moma kay (supposedly aka katherine marion) was a Canadian mom that fed her kid weird vegan health food. And that's about all I actually remember, even the name I had forgotten for a while. I had found her page when I was a kid in the early 2000s. I can't find a single article or anything talking about her at all at this point, but I did get some replies on a YouTube video where people actually remembered her and that's where I got the name from. Someone also said that some YouTubers used to cover her but I can't find any of those videos now. I literally can't find anything about her because her name is also the name of a pop star now? Maybe she is the pop star? I'm not sure, but I'm just happy that I'm not crazy and that someone else remembers her.
most early youtube videos, even outside of those that get removed from the platform entirely youtube is constantly re-encoding already compressed videos
If there's any normal media worth giving a shit about, then yes. If you are just being a dick and want to argue everything is shit, then this is dumb.
Lost media would have the additional benefit of only being seen by very few people.
Like one time I was driving and heard a funny radio ad (a father deer was talking to his son about how to safely cross the road at night, and he said 'now wait for the headlights', then you heard the car crash into a tree... i think it was for insurance.) - anyway, I used to joke about the commercial when we were driving at night. So, anyway, that stupid commercial has some value to me and it is certainly lost.
hh26@reddit
There's a bunch of early Doctor Who episodes that got lost in a fire. It ruins an attempt at actually watching the entire series from start to finish. Which is sad especially since the first doctor was the best one. They went on historical adventures with cavemen and Aztecs and stuff like a time travel show ought to and it wasn't always just made up aliens all the time.
It's not creepy, it's just kind of disappointing.
Inserteggpunshere@reddit
I thought they lost those old Doctor Who episodes because they deleted them to save costs?
hh26@reddit
You might be right. I might be confusing it with a different show that was lost to fire, and this one was deleted.
Superspookyghost@reddit
yeah the BBC used to reuse/destroy masters from the 60s until the late 70s/early 80s. Doctor Who has been fortunate in that it had a pretty dedicated fanbase that were taping even back then and a lot were sold to foreign television stations for broadcasting, and many were recovered because those stations didn't destroy them. But other shows aren't as lucky. There was some police procedural that ran for \~20 years in the UK, and basically only 50 out of \~450 episodes that were aired survive.
spanksthemonkey@reddit
All I want to find and view are the original Bill Cosby "Jello Tree" commercials.
The "Hey Kids! Get out of that Jello tree!"
ones. Not the Jello pudding or any of that.
There were several and one had a mail in advert for jello fruit molds.
Can't find em anywhere.
spanksthemonkey@reddit
Anyway, now that I mentioned it I'm open for solutions...
Superspookyghost@reddit
Probably a bunch of lost films from the silent era.
The problem is "lost media" is framed as some kind of creepypasta cursed video that's always "mysterious" or "haunting" and when its sold like that to endless youtubers obsessed with it, of course not.
MagiStarIL@reddit
Well, the fact that things can just disappear one day and all that will remain of them are people's memories is kinda haunting
jizzleaker@reddit
That will be all of our fates, accept it.
Dark_Pestilence@reddit
This is the fate of everything. And there won't even be memories left because no one will be there to remember them. Every atom in this universe was at one point everything else and will be everything else again.
edbods@reddit
"WORLD'S MOST ANNOYING LAUGH" might be one. was a video of this incredibly obese guy sitting in his chair laughing and it sounded really funny. guy was barely moving his face muscles or anything. then at the end of it after it crescendos you hear a sound effect of a gun load and fire. can't find the video anymore.
LoudRubbish@reddit
Erm this ACTUALLY gave me freaking chills dude... That's so twisted and creepy...
_Infinity_Girl_@reddit
I mean I kind of get what you're saying. The genre has grown into something different from how it started, I think lost media in some form has always been a thing just not very popular necessarily. Then one day Creepypastas crossed over into the genre and they became inseparably entangled. Sewer slide mouse, I feel fantastic, candle cove, polybius, the list goes on. The genre exploded and brought with it a lot of attention towards actual lost media. I think when people discovered that a lot of these projects were fake or very easy to find a lot of people wanted a real Challenge and started actually trying to find lost media. And now I feel like we're getting to a point where we're starting to get over saturated with this stuff. But on the flip side, a lot of really cool Mysteries that have been solved by the community. I even have one myself.
Moma kay (supposedly aka katherine marion) was a Canadian mom that fed her kid weird vegan health food. And that's about all I actually remember, even the name I had forgotten for a while. I had found her page when I was a kid in the early 2000s. I can't find a single article or anything talking about her at all at this point, but I did get some replies on a YouTube video where people actually remembered her and that's where I got the name from. Someone also said that some YouTubers used to cover her but I can't find any of those videos now. I literally can't find anything about her because her name is also the name of a pop star now? Maybe she is the pop star? I'm not sure, but I'm just happy that I'm not crazy and that someone else remembers her.
xx123gamerxx@reddit
most early youtube videos, even outside of those that get removed from the platform entirely youtube is constantly re-encoding already compressed videos
BarrelStrawberry@reddit
If there's any normal media worth giving a shit about, then yes. If you are just being a dick and want to argue everything is shit, then this is dumb.
Lost media would have the additional benefit of only being seen by very few people.
Like one time I was driving and heard a funny radio ad (a father deer was talking to his son about how to safely cross the road at night, and he said 'now wait for the headlights', then you heard the car crash into a tree... i think it was for insurance.) - anyway, I used to joke about the commercial when we were driving at night. So, anyway, that stupid commercial has some value to me and it is certainly lost.
HitIerWasWrong@reddit
Just some big booty latinas dancing in the early days of youtube.
Tenko-of-Mori@reddit
Yeah, Heraclitus' treaty on Nature, Empodocles' work, there's plenty of lost media that I wish we had
NotTooGoodBitch@reddit
NASA recorded over the moon landing.
Valuable-Chipmunk784@reddit
The original video where the guy goes "Oops my anarchy symbol".