I have way too many of these and have lost count over time. Porn/porn games, old flash games/animations from Newgrounds, classic memes that only I seem to remember, stuff I saw for sale once upon a time that are sold out and can't be found anywhere anymore, esoteric collectibles, comments I made on videos or posts literal decades ago, old websites long since defunct and so far lost that even wayback machine doesn't have them on record, underground/indie music recordings that I definitely had at one point and then lost when switching hard drives out. The list definitely goes on but those are the ones off the top of my head.
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Years after it was a meme, I had the Harlem shake voice line into music in my head, but no idea from where, and trying to remember or find the song. It took months, until I stumbled upon it eventually.
Due to this post I just found mine.
For the longest time I've been trying to find a video that featured someone copying a VHS recording over and over again, each time loosing a little bit of quality.
The specific video featured a catchy song, but I couldn't remember the song or any of the words. I've found a few different videos over the years but every time I found a video the song was wrong.
Every few years it's jumped into my head and I've gone off looking for it, but could never quite figure it out.
This time I either put in just the right terms or the magic algorithm has moved it around,
It's actually pretty cool, I remembered something very similar to this but it was from AVGN. It was uploaded, but taken down, of him showcasing the degrading video quality of a VHS, it was exactly something like this. It might've been a home video he did, where he or someone is punching another person while jogging down the street and everytime it played, the quality went down.
We all have that one porn video.
I don't because I did a siterip in like 2006-2007ish. I never lost that video.
Back around 1991 or so, I saw a promotional piece of art in a centerfold in a Nintendo Power magazine, which was a high-resolution and not-cropped version of the artwork that appears on the Secret of Mana title screen. I really liked the image, and wished that I could get a copy. I thought that someone must have scanned the art at some point, but couldn't find it anywhere online. Back around 2023
32 years later
after repeated, sporadic hunts
I finally found a high-quality scan, and uploaded it to !gameart@sopuli.xyz:
https://lemmy.world/post/18353742
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4f16e6c1-2174-45fa-b9e9-c8ae6e1a3f7d.png
I promptly ran into another Threadiverse user in that thread who had been saying that he had been looking for the same thing for ages.
EDIT: Based on this Reddit post of a lower-quality version, the artist is Hiro Isono.
I remember this image too it's so fucking badass.
In fact, like I did with the UNIX is Magic poster, I may take this image and get it printed up on a nice large, glossy poster and mount it because fuck I have missed this. Thank you for sharing.
There was a Tetris type game, with falling pieces you had to rotate and line up, but the pieces were men and women. When they fit together in sex positions, they moaned.
I was 14 and it was hilarious.
For years, mine was this gif I saw on UsVsTh3m in 2013. It had no context, and the only hint to its origin was the barely legible "29. 暑〜い!" overlay. I had a guess that this was from a Japanese TV talent show. I wanted to find the original video, but the trail went cold.
Years later, I don't know how, I heard of a series of Japanese TV specials called Kesou Taishou, known overseas as Masquerade. UsVsTh3m got bought by the Mirror and their post was taken down, but I still had the gif. My Google Translate research skills had improved, so I looked up Masquerade on Japanese Wikipedia and searched all the episode guides for 暑〜い!, and in the shows from 2007, I found it! It was entry 29 in the 78th special, and it won third place there.
I try not to post things that don't have a legal source, so I quietly updated my blog post and didn't mention it anywhere else. Until...
Three months ago, my partner started getting YouTube recommendations for this show. I checked, and the show's new official YouTube channel had just uploaded this performance a few days earlier. I made a better gif of it and posted it to !gifs@lemmy.world , and they liked it!
Mine is a youtube video where girl shares that she used to do extreme self deprecating humor like "oh, i dropped this thing, i should just kill myself" but tried flipping completely to "oh, i dropped this thing, guess it's the price of having such nice skin and grace." She noticed how it helped her improve her relation with her friends and weed out the bad ones. This video was profoundly influential to me but i didn't realize until later so i didn't save it at the time.
One time in the early 2000s, I saw a commercial during Adult Swim on Cartoons Network and I've wanted to see it again ever since. It was for Virgin Mobile and it featured Ode to Joy or 1812 Overture plating over quick cuts of mundane objects which turn out to be innuendo... for body parts. I know it wasn't delusion because I was at a friends house and also though it was epic.
When I was a young teen, I loved collecting MIDIs because I didn't have a good way of getting music in other formats--I still had dial up, and didn't know about other methods. Plus I mostly enjoyed songs from video games. There was one I found that had a very enchanting melody and I loved it to death. Kept it on its own special floppy disk. Inevitably, it got lost and I never could remember the name of the song or what game it came from. I did search but not knowing either of those things, and it being only a melody with no lyrics, made it difficult to find. Then, one day, while listening on Spotify, it just magically appeared.
Sora from Escaflowne :)
In the BBC news many years ago I remember Peter Sissons calling the reporter John Pienaar John Penis and then quickly correcting himself. None of my friends or family actually heard or acknowledged it. And for years i couldn't find anything on the internet until recently I found this one radio clip.
At long last I have proof that I'm more observant than everyone else, not crazy. Although that being said, I did spend an unhealthy amount of time looking.
Two things:
An article about a blockade of kayaks that were in an Eastern US port preventing warships from leaving the country to go to the war in Iraq. It was spearheaded by Quakers and was part of the impetus the Bush admin wanted to use to charge Quakers as terrorists. Quakers are one of the few religious groups that are by default conscientious objectors and cannot be drafted into the military due to the non-violence aspects of their religion. I have been able to find evidence that the Bush admin was toying with prosecuting Quakers, but not this specific event.
An article about musicians suing their record company for money made from suing individuals for file sharing. The record companies always argued that the people doing music piracy were stealing from the musicians, but the musicians had to sue their record company to see a penny of that money.
All together I have literally spent days and days over the years trying to find these. I have a fairly good memory and everything else I remember from that period of time I have been able to dig to find the source. These two elude me and it kills me.
Some late 90's or early 2000's time travel movie. If I describe the plot, you will tell me it is The Butterfly Effect. But it isn't. I was trying to figure out what it was several years ago, tried watching The Butterfly Effect, and it was not the movie I was remembering, but it was similar enough in enough ways that I can't find anything else. It feels kinda like how we had multiples sets of similar movies released in that time - Bug's Life and Ants. Mission to Mars and Red Planet. Deep Impact and Armageddon. Dante's Peak and Volcano. etc. (I sweat there was another tornado movie around the time of Twister but can't find it so maybe I just regularly hallucinate movies?)
Twin films I think that phenomena is called.
Here's a few movies it might be: Donnie Darko, Frequency, the final cut,
Sometime between 2005 and 2008, someone from explosm (the cyanide and happiness guys) did a thing in the forums where they'd draw a comic panel and the forum decided what happened next by voting in the thread. It'd go on for a few days, and by the end the stories were always wildly off the rails. They did it ~3 times. Sometime later, they lost all of their forums, which included these threads. I've always wondered if there's an archive of those things somewhere. They were absolutely legendary.
Anyone watched Dark, the Netflix Germany TV show? I swear the last scene had Lorde's song as the background. But the last time I rewatched it, the song wasn't there.
Edit:
Spoiler
It's the scene where Jonas and Martha ceased to exist
That actually happens kinda frequently with some TV shows. For instance, The House MD theme song is famously Teardrop by Massive Attack, but some streaming platforms didn't get the rights to that song, and they replace it with a very similar song. I was watching House with a friend a while back, on Netflix I believe, and remember thinking "Wait a sec, this isn't Teardrop", and sure enough the credits listed a completely different song for the opening.
Except that it's usually documented. I've looked all over the internet and I could not find a single trace, I'm starting to doubt my sanity.
There was a browser game I remember playing in ~2010 that was basically a zoo tycoon game where you unlocked new animals over time
Nostalgically, I wanted to play it a little while bac,k but I'm sure you can imagine why searching "browser zoo game" didn't exactly help me much
There used to be a parody of "The real Slim Shady" video about Mitt Romney. About 3 years ago I went searching for it to show my partner and it does not exist anymore. Copyright claimed into oblivion. Seems stupid, but I'd really like to watch it again.
There are various audio services that will identify music if you upload a clip. Sort of TinEye for audio. I can't name a specific service, but they are out there. If you haven't, you might give it a shot.
kagis
https://www.aha-music.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/
I can name a couple of apps that try to recognize songs from the microphone:
SoundHound - my favorite. For most songs I've used it for, it recognizes exactly where in the song it was and shows you the lyrics, highlighting the active line and updating live, so you can follow along.
Shazam - most popular and well-known (at least we're I'm from)
Google - you can use the microphone to search. Has the best chance of recognizing songs through humming or singing in my experience.
So I remember coming across this basic webpage that was just a song playing on loop with an animation in the center.
The song was this weird electronic loop with samples on top: baby coos, a few lines from some female rapper, various bloopy sounds. It changed a bunch.
The animation looked like old 90s 3d web animations, very pixelated. The object would rock back and forth, and periodically changed into a different object: an old CRT monitor, a dolphin, just random stuff.
The whole thing had a very Windows 98 sorta vibe, I think the name looked like a file name. That was the whole thing though, just this animation and music loop.
It was maybe 15 years ago. The song was pretty catchy, so every once in a while I try to find it, but I can't even begin to think of how to search this.
About 15 years ago I googled "free games download" and stumbled upon a 3rd person gladiator game where mouse movement translated to slashing direction. Playing it was already fun but when I looked through the install folder I found all the texture files and customized the hell out of all the equipment. Basically this game was my first attempt at modding which has been a hobby of mine ever since. No idea what its name was or where I could look for it though.
From my youth(I'm 39), I remember McDonalds having a pizza happy meal. I remember the commercial for it being a song with the lyrics "It's a pizza happy meal, a pepperoni and cheese!" The song was to the tune of a very stereotypical "Italian" sounding tune. Now, there's definitive evidence that a pizza happy meal existed but I cannot find that commercial or someone else who remembers that song.
Back in the early years of youtube there used to be an anituber that had super funny and cool content. He would review anime and had an anime avatar with a cape over his head. (The Avatar kinda looked like Cid "Shadow") he would make super funny and witty vids and he was also very popular but than deleted all vids and disappeared.
I don't remeber the name of the channel and many weebs I've talked to, don't have a clue who I'm talking about.
I have smaller white whales, every year or so I remember something cool from some 4-5 years ago, usually quite niche, and I am rarely able to find it.
Yesterday, I remembered a music video from the lockdowns. Poppy music with a catchy refrain, the two artists on screen, singer and electric piano player, jungle inspired decorations. A pineapple on the keyboard. I’m sure if I could remember even a couple of words of the refrain I would be set… but somehow i remember that the artists were set in NY.
I had one for years that ended up being a Harry Nile radio drama I heard on a work site years ago
Reading thru the comments and I've been reminded of a fan-made DnD 5e book that focused on a number of bdsm kinks, a lot of it relating to latex, so obviously NSFW, adding "races" like "headless body made of rubber", "torso with legs", "just the torso", plus several magical items that were effectively other bdsm stuff, though I remember one of the items was a "limb portal", which allowed you to attach to any one limb and separate it from the body. I don't remember a single unique or almost unique name from the supplement.
The art was very furry-oriented and had plenty of black and white images - I recall one of them was of fully latex-bound adventurers aiming a bow, using only the legs/feet. This was probably released around 2016 as a free pdf
There was one flash game on a website i dont remember the name of. You were a ghost and your goal was to scare everyone in a mansion by controlling objects
After successfully making the mansion empty, you were shown 2 buttons, one of them being reset. Since i played the game before knowing english well, i always pressed reset by accident
I posted my comment on the original post with my other Lemmy account but I'm going to put it here too, just in case this post gets more traction.
There are a few things but I don’t think I can really talk about them here. So, I’ll just mention that there was this old browser game on Cartoon Network’s website that I remember playing when I was younger. It was based on Xiaolin Showdown and, while I don’t remember exactly what the gameplay was like, it was a fully 3D game and I think I remember it being a platformer. I have never been able to find this game or even any information about it existing, anywhere. I’ve even checked Bluemaxima’s Flashpoint and it’s not archived there either.
At a certain point, I forgot the name of an online store that sold a lot of cool modding gear. It was impossible to find with searches without the name, but I found an old tour of the warehouse in my very old files one day and it was called Lik-Sang. It's so old, I probably don't even have access to the email I used for those purchases anymore.
Not internet, but I a certain scene in an anime on Scifi channel always stuck with me. Eventually, I figured out it was Zeiram the Animation, but the scene had a different dub. That was the era when shows would sometimes have more then one English dub for one reason or another.
I also remember seeing an episode of Max Steel in the hotel room while on a family trip to Canada which had a different opening with a different explanation to how the MC got his powers. Chalking it up to some BS&P issue.
There was some AMVs I saw at Otakon that never got released online. A really good Kino's Journey one, but I don't remember the song at the moment.
Now I'm digging up obscure media from my brain. Apparently, it's not lost media or even good, but I remember watching a prerelease of Game Over at a gaming con once. I guess one episode is lost media.
Shame Welcome to Eltingville never got a full series. CN sure got a lot of mileage out of playing the pilot for a show they opted not to continue.
edit: oh for fun. A friend of mine has been on the hunt for a version of Zorro he saw bits of as a kid. He's never been able to figure out what version of it it was, even though every time he brings it up, we tell him it was actually The Princess Bride. Seriously, he wont watch The Princess Bride, but is convinced that it's not what he saw.
Oh, and there's allegedly a Japanese show that's allegedly streaming on Japanese Amazon called Space Jobs. This is the trailer I found on a fansub torrent site.
Oh! I have one. And it's actually very white.
Back on ebaumsworld circa 2003 there was this flash interactive thing. It wasn't quite a game, it wasn't quite a video because it required interaction to progress. It involved men in suits doing strange things. Boxing, one would yell into a bullhorn if you clicked on him, had a drum beat behind it, black and I think red line art on a white background.
Exactly the kind of thing search engines are bad at finding, and I've even looked on the wayback machine and no dice.
A few years back I found a video of Seattle public access televangelist/cult leader Rev Bruce Howard in China singing a song in Chinese, apparently there on a TEFL programme or something. In line with his usual Bowie-like reinventions he now had a beret and moustache. I have a screen grab for avatar use but I’ve never found the video again!
There was... I think it was an archive of old forum threads from a forum I don't remember what it's called. I stumbled onto it googling for DS action replay codes waaay back on the late 2000s. I remember a thread with a bunch of animal cross wild world codes, including one that supposedly let you walk on water. And codes for sm64 DS. One of which I remember was supposed to set your star count to 255 but using it permanently crashed the game when launching the save file.
There were also different threads such as a general one on things in games that scared you. There were some obvious things like the piano from sm64 and I thiiiink someone mentioned the redead from ocarina of time.
It's oddly specific but I would love to go back and read through these again for nostalgia purposes. But I haven't been able to find it.
There was a website, I think flash, once where you could set some parameters; things like proportions, steps of the harmonic series, interval ratios, etc. Then you could start the animation, which was a series of dots around a circle that would chime their pitch as they passed a specific spot.
I went looking for it a few years back but could never find it again. It drove me batty for a while. I even shared some emails with smalin, an awesome music animator but he said he’d seen something like it I believe but didn’t have a link.
Anyway, now there are polyrhythm videos like this, which is similar. But it isn’t interactive and doesn’t show the interesting math actually taking place.
I am a programmer and could of course make something like it, but I really just want it back.
Mine is a video. In my memory it's a well-produced, fast-paced, choreographed fight scene featuring the Power Rangers battling a band of generic goons for possession of some MacGuffin: a crystal or orb or whatever. The twist is, the whole thing is set to the song Run by Ghostface Killah. Every few years I look for it, and always come up empty-handed.