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

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

We all have that one porn video.

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. 😞

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.

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.

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!

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?

I had one for years that ended up being a Harry Nile radio drama I heard on a work site years ago

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.

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.

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.

Relevant community: !tipofmytongue@lemmy.world

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.

For a number of years, it was Blood on your Hands by Killing Joke. Or, as I had known it back then, "Track 04", which was the wrong number of the track, no less. Took me some 7 years between losing "Track 04", remembering it existed and knowing it was by Killing Joke to take the plunge and 🏴‍☠️ their discography.

(For some reason, I have trouble figuring out what is being sung in several songs unless I read the lyrics together, even to this day. Once I've done that a couple of times, I can "hear" the words properly. So, I never had a good idea of what the song "talked about")

For whatever reason, I downloaded everything except the Killing Joke 2003 album. Around a month later, I decided to check those songs out, put them all on a playlist and left it playing. When "Blood on your Hands" started playing, the unmistakable starting guitar riff, oh my fucking god, I felt like I had unearthed a real fucking treasure!

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.

A comment on reddit that succinctly outlined the difference between private enterprise and government. So perfectly worded I was in awe.