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.

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 ![email protected]:

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.

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 ![email protected] , and they liked it!

Relevant community: ![email protected]

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.

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 :)

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.

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?)

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 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

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 Spoiler It's the scene where Jonas and Martha ceased to exist :::

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/

https://musikerkennung.com/en/

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Sexy Losers by clay is the origin of the word "fap"

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.

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

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 was an animated video, hand drawn, animated on the 1s and smooth as fuck. It was two orbs colliding and battling like they were atoms, and then at the end of the video it was a nuclear explosion. Or something like that. This would have been from like 20+ years ago back on Newgrounds or something, but I'll be damned if I can find it.

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.

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.

Not really internet. I remember a video I saw when I was a kid, like 6-7 years old. It must've run alongside Sesame Street or something, because that was the only stuff I was allowed to watch back then. It was some sort of PSA about wearing a seat belt. A father, who was also an actor on the German Sesame Street, was picking up his young daughter, she sat in the backseat. She wanted to show him what she learned playing the recorder and played a bit for him. He had to break, looked back and saw the flute sticking out his daughter's mouth. That fucking thing sticks with me to this day. Must've been early 80s on German TV. I have no hope of ever being able to traumatize others with that shit, but I wish I could just so I can talk about it.

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.

Waaaay back in the day, before YouTube and all that, we shared small videos.

There was one animated stop frame short film, where ken and barbie were having bdsm styled sex.

Barbie keeps asking Ken to hit her. Harder. Harder!

Eventually he really does, and it ends in a bad way for barbie.

Early 20s me thought it was hilarious.

Have never found it on the modern internet.

The other is the early work of the south Park creators. About a dog. I believe it was called Princess?

There's a very horrid sex seen where a wife begrudgingly masturbates her husband as the dog watches. Total marriage boredom. Getting the job done just to get it done. Horrid, and beautifully articulated through the animated format.

Again, have never been able to find it.

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 have a rather silly one.

Back in the old Youtube days, I think before Google took over. There was a fake parody trailer made for David Lynch's Dune. It basically reimagined the film with fart jokes. As immature as it was, it was still funny. But now it's long gone and I wish I could show it to my friends.

What is the show?

I remember this flash game I played as a kid that was a sci fi tower defense where each level you were trying to stave off a... Purple fog? Something like that.. Just long enough so your colony could launch off planet to escape the allconsuming purple atmosphere. I have no clue what it's called and have tried looking it up but to no avail. If anyone here knows what it's called I would be indebted

Edit: thanks for the suggestions folks it was neither outpost nor the creeper world games

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!

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

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.

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.

at least you have the songs.

https://www.shazam.com/

I did a similar thing with very, very, low quality DI shows I ripped with winamp over 56k.

An artsy short (Vimeo?) about some girl hanging out her very stylish, beige apartment while a voiceover talsk very intimimately to her. In the end the voiceover talks about being eaten up, and the girl kinda swallows some pudding thing?

It had a slightly french vibe I think, though not as overtly erotic as it sounds.

A YouTube mixtape found after searching “Madagascar Music” that had a smattering of wonderful folk music from, ostensibly, Madagascar. It must’ve been dmca’d years ago or something ‘cause I’ve not been able to find it since c. 2013.

I've posted this on reddit back in the day, both on r/tipofmytongue and r/tipofmyjoystick.

There was a free indie game that I installed on my Windows PC back in the 2000s. I don't know where I got it, but I don't think it was Steam. The game was a 2D platformer where the main character was I think a red cat. I remember it being kind of fast paced, and you had a sword, and at one point can shoot lasers or something which played into the platforming (I think charging it and shooting it downwards gave you like a double jump? I'm not 100% sure if this is accurate).

I've tried so hard to find this game again, but time and time again I've come up empty.

Some more details, though it's very foggy at this point:

• I think there was a level select screen, kinda similar to like Mario 3
• There is the typical friendly village level where you can talk to NPCs
• I think one level was on top of a train.
• It may not even be a cat, but I always thought it looked like one.
• The game was a digital download, pretty sure I got it from an indie game dev's website showcasing his games and projects, and I'm not 100% sure the game was finished.

Mine was a super-specific and overpowered Dungeons and Dragons custom class for elves, that basically got cool powers from all the other classes. I'm pretty sure the class was called "Knights of Rillifane" and I came across it originally in a Compuserve message board.

As I say, it's not a good bit of game design, and it's certainly not important. But given how big the d&d loving community has been in Internet history, and how 'collectory' they are, it really surprises me that it hasn't been compiled into a netbook or turn up on a geocities website somewhere.

I've got a couple.

One was a dark comedy sketch that a friend showed me in, I want to say '99(?). A couple appear to be in therapy, and the doctor asks how this started. They recount through flashbacks a series of more extreme requests under the guise of "if you loved me, you would do it". At one point one of them definitely made a piece of toast and put nail clipping on it, then told the other that "if you loved me, you would eat it". The sketch concludes >! showing that they were actually in a final surgical consult and the last scene is them being wheeled into surgery to be joined at the hip!<

The other is a comic strip where a couple people are working on their computers when either a song starts playing, or one person starts saying "shoop shoop shoop shoop-a-doop" and stylistically dancing while putting on their jacket. As they dance to the exit the other person says "shoop a doop?" and then the first dances their way off frame

I used to listen to this spooky paranormal radio show when I was young with my dad that was either hosted by or called Nacho Limón. I think it was either from the late 90s or early 00's. But I could never find any references to it online.

Mine is pretty dumb, but it was a joke website from 2000-ish called One Day I Will Walk Like Walt Disney. Years later I remembered it but couldn't find it; but I eventually did thanks to the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080421024049/http://members.shaw.ca/mcramer1/index.html

It has different sections including Brain Teasers (Aunt Fredererick's Sand was my favorite), and "Don't believe it or do" with such interesting facts as:

Contrary to popular belief, the Titanic never hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. Rather, it sailed successfully to New York City many times. It was finally decommissioned in 1978 and converted into a pinball arcade.

i forgot what it was, and now i dont even know what to search for but i knew i wanted to find a very specific thing online which i couldn't, oh well.

There's a "famous" gore video showing a Russian soldier being brutally murdered by Chechen rebels. Ya'll probably already know what I'm talking about, so I don't need to explain (and if you haven't seen it or don't know what it is, don't bother looking for it, it's not nice and does you no good to have it on your psychic hard drive). Since seeing that clip in ~2000, I've desperately wanted to know the man's identity and the circumstances in which he was killed. I've had people swear to me that they also saw the clip, but the version they saw was quite a bit longer than the ~20-second clip everyone is aware of, and they describe some details that could well be useful in identifying him, but alas this alleged longer version seems to have vanished entirely, if it ever existed. The version we have is obviously heavily-edited, lots of quick cuts and time-jumps, so there is at least a version without all of that, somewhere.

Trust me when I say that I've looked into this issue on and off for the last 25 years, and I have heard many bullshit claims about who he is: they're all wrong and provably so. I've watched hundreds (literally) of clips from that conflict that show barbarity of one degree or another, and in doing so I have identified the clips that specific reports and testimonies are alluding to when they claim to have identified the victim. None of them is our guy, it's always some other video clip where some other Russian is knifed by a Chechen (there're a lot of such clips).

There was a user on a gore forum who uploaded the Tukhchar massacre (safe click) video in full, and he claimed to have the full version of our mystery clip, but refused to post it and grew increasingly hostile the more people asked him for it, eventually taking his ball and going home by stating his intention to never post it because people were mean to him. He was obviously a bullshitter who had a few good uploads and decided to use that momentum to generate hype around this other 'holy grail' clip which he almost certainly did not have. Other than that one prick, nobody online has access to the full video or the identity of the man. At least, not on the English-speaking internet.

I've seen a lot of awful videos on the net, but there's something about that one in particular that really energised me to find out who he is. I guess it being the first video of that kind I ever saw would probably have something to do with it, but it's also just so fucking cold. You could sense the all-consuming hatred in the killers in the way they staged the scene and the matter-of-fact way they slaughtered him. Just pure inhumanity. There are "worse" videos, there are drug cartel videos that would make a Spanish Inquisitor lose his lunch, but man, that Russian dude is always lingering in my mind.

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

The full set of this image of Kate Beckinsale photographed by Firooz Zahedi on June 15th 2000.

I know I had the full set saved once in high resolution, but now it vanished from the face of the web. Even on the photographers Website there's only this one low res image. Reverse image search shows variations of the image, so there has to be a set of pictures, not only one.

Old(ish) pieces of fiction I don't seem to find anywhere or in a language I speak: An old Kdrama from the 90's that arguing against abortion (I promise the story is better than that). I found it subbed in indonesian and I might end up learning korean just to finish it. I've recently write to a publishing company trying to find if an out of print comic has being even published in hard cover past a certain tome. The magazine they were published in are relatively rare.

Of course, I could fixe my issues with a few card payement but where would be the game?

There was this animation of a cuckoo clock floating on a black background. The bird would pop out and start rocking to the song Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash.

The only context I have is that it was around the turn of the millenium, on an old Macintosh LC computer.

The 'guy from accounting' who has a Hitler-stache and talks like a machismo filled, unaware dingbat. (NB. It was satire)

Was on SA or Fark way back in 90s or so.

I always forget the name of the piece.

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.

Around 2010 I saw a YT video of a CGI mouse dancing in a circle to a Latin version of "Jump Around" that is a full on stoner lazy marble-mouth version where it's just "da-da-bA-da-da-da-da-ba, da-da-da...ja arun, ja aron..."

I loved it. I miss it, I need it. I can't find it.

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.

I remember a cartoon where one character was a recently desexed dog whose only word was baaalls.

one of mine is an old flash video that i think i remember was on newgrounds, that had a black guy and a white guy talking to each other.

the only things i can remember is the black guy saying, "i feel ashamed and neglected," and white guy saying "I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL I GET THE ANSWERS THAT I CRAVE"

There's an electronic drum and bass song called "Ford Fiesta" don't remember the artist.

It's a bit of a loaded search term

Mine is a shock factor video so read at your own discretion

! A few years ago there was a comment under a reddit post also about internet white whales that described one of the most incredible shock factor videos ive ever read about. Its set to the tone of foreigner "I wanna know what love is" and shows a man going out to buy a cucumber, coming home, lubing it up, and well doing unspeakable things to it. That's pretty disgusting, but then you see that it's synced to the music. "I WANNA KNOW WHAT LOVE IIIISS" cucumber goes in "I KNOW YOU CAN SHOW MEEE" cucumber comes out As you can imagine it seems vividly gruesome and the whole reason i want to find it is to send it to my friend. !<

Mine is pre-internet, but given þe amount of content which has been uploaded, I'm disappointed I can't find it.

Martin Zuhr used to have þis show on German broadcast TV called "Donnor's Tag bei Kanal 4". It was surreal and funny, and I've been looking for episodes online for years. While I can find references to þe show (such as þe link), I can't find any digital episodes.