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Like others, I actually managed to find it thanks to this thread by double-checking before posting.

It's a sketch/short film(?) called A Reasonable Request. It will stick with you, if you watch it, I promise.

There are several online tools that will try to name tracks based on sample audio.

Scottish comedian, TV/internet personality Limmy used to have a lot of Flash stuff on his website. I had it all saved but, for whatever reason, it went missing years ago. His website has been gone for a long time. Internet Archive has some of them but not a bunch of them. So much Flash stuff has been archived to no end but this stuff is just forgotten to the world.

This one porn where there was like three girls sitting next to each other with their legs spread over each other.

Think I saw it when I was like 14-16. I'm pretty sure it was little caprice too but honestly idk

2 psa's that ran on cable on the early 90's.

Both had some dumb tag ling like "would you risk your life to save them?" Dramatic music and snap cuts.

One had a little girl in a petal car on a road with an oncomming semi truck.

The second was a toddler walking away from it's mother into a busy city street with oncomming traffic, and the mother (who was trying to unlock her car) freaking out once she noticed the kid was missing.

These have to exist somewhere.

There's a a conspiracy theory involving a relatively popular celebrity from the early 2000s and some guy in Brazil takes full credit for the entire conspiracy theory and says he made it up just to prove how easy it would be to do. He's even credited in the wikipedia article for it.

I've seen proof that he's wrong, I've had bookmarks that would show he wasn't the originator of the theory, but all the forums and sources that would be able to prove him wrong are defunct and offline. The timeline doesn't even make sense for it to have originated when he said he came up with it, but I can't prove it. He was like 6 years late. Every once in awhile, I still go searching to see if I can find something old enough to prove it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Off the top of my head I'd say a poem called "an ode to what is now, effectively, stairs" about shutdown escalators in an abandoned mall. I've had a search around for it a couple of times, including on the forum that I'm pretty sure I saw it on - the Agora Road Macintosh Cafe (I think this has since become a right-wing cesspool, it was last time I was there, so not a recommendation), but no luck :/ This was only like 7 years ago, so I'm almost impressed at how quickly it's disappeared.

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.

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 :)

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

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!

At this point, with all the lost media focused youtube channels, everything that I once saw that would be perfect to add to this list has actually already been found. It's actually kind of... lame. Because now there is less mystery and whimsy in my life. 😞

A goth artist guy named Marcel. I had a tiny photo of him. I’ve never found him again.

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?)

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.

I found one of them thanks to this post reminding me to check to make sure I have the right name, but now I need English subtitles for it.

葫芦兄弟2葫芦小金刚 ( Deeply: Hulu Brothers 2 The Golden Gourd )

I don't remember how, but I stumbled upon the original Calabash Brothers online with ENG sub and really liked how crazy it felt, in a good way. Found part of the first episode of this sequel and I knew I needed to see the whole thing with ENG subs. Didn't know it was 6 episodes, but now I do.

I also hope to some day find the early( ? ) 2010s Calabash Brothers with ENG subs as well because I'm invested in the series, the cartoon/donghua anyways.

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.

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.

What is the show?

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,

https://youtu.be/mES3CHEnVyI

Okay so mine is so old i can't really put a finger on where i got it from..It's a piece of electronic music with a music video that included an Inuit fishing. It must have been from around '97 but could be anywhere in the nineties. In my recollection it was a single on cdrom from The Chemical Brothers. That never yielded any results for me. The second recollection was that it came from a cdrom that accompanied an exhibition on electronic art. Also never yielded any results for me. So, somewhere in my recollection is a couple of electronic notes and an Inuit in the music video. Ive given up searching for it, even though i tried many many times over the years.