#partially found media

[cyan-stargaze002]

MERLOT SUNS AU

WARNING: The following contains creepy imagery and Season 3 spoilers. Viewers discretion is advised. ⚠️

So, you guys must’ve seen the famous “obj_maxscreencap” on Twitter I reckon? Well, I will show you all an AU just created based on it!

In a discord server, I wrote something based on a phrase this Max says that is “Am I worth saving?” And well, it might have S3 spoilers!

Also below this is the art followed with the original source image so, be warned!

The image was originally posted by @/Kittles_XP on Twitter.

[karastears]

TPoM fandom, lost media peeps, can we possibly come together and try to find this?

[bringbackbunnymaloney]

SOME FOUND THINGS PUT INTO A SHORT VID!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslighter? I hardly know her!

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[peachierainbows]

in my alternate universe lost media era 😍😍😍

[corngobblerthe2817th]

she was so real for this

《are there girls in the world like me - tangled》

[creatively-cosmic]

girlies be so ":D i am so niceys" in the pokemon canon and in missing numbers theyre insane (this is about lyra heartgolf)

[extradimensional-catboy]

Well, well!

Look who’s finally back in town! Hello again, world! What did I miss?

[bunnymaloney-ooc]

[craniozito]

Fun fact of the day no one asked for

The Brazillian dub of Jetter Mars is lost media, this video is the only existing proof of it.

EDIT:

I didn't knew that but @jetmars has the full episode DUB on their Youtube channel, thank you for archiving it.

Apparently the studio that owned the dub of Jetter Mars caught fire, not sure but it's a possibility. Maybe someone recorded it on a VHS and didn't know they had it or don't want to share it.

The brazillian lost media community is weird with sharing stuff for some odd reason.

Along with this another fun fact, the 80s Astro Boy was never dubbed into Brazilian Portuguese, but apparently the 60s was but is also lost media. Some sources say it was dubbed, others say no, so I take it as a rumor because there is no actual proof of it.

[tankycinna]

Does Izaya have reading glasses or is that just a headcanon my brain latched onto so hard that I’ve convinced myself it had to be canon somewhere?

[steakout-05]

since my recent fixation on Sweet ANN and Big AL, i've looked through a lot of sources of information for obscure media pertaining to these voicebanks, particularly Sweet ANN as there is just more information available about her. i spent a few hours tonight compiling all that info into an iceberg and i think i'm ready to share it here!! it's not finished yet and a couple of levels are empty (mainly because idk if i can delete levels i don't need adfafds) but it has a majority of the information i was able to find by looking through the big Vocaloid wikis, vocadb and plugging dead links into the Wayback Machine. here is the berg :3

secondary sources that were super helpful for finding more obscure information:

[dogmaz]

Thinking about Station X again and its kinda driving me insane.

Station X is a Canadian adult animated series from 2005, from what I've gathered only 7 episodes are available. It ran for one season, definitely had more episodes seeing as the ones i can find are all out of order, along with the full episode list being up on Wikipedia.

It has a unique blend of live action clips and animation, and the style is very Downtown mixed with Undergrads. A very visually interesting show even if the characters are all pretty one note. I'd love to know if anyone has any info on this show, why there are so many missing episodes. Probably because Teletoon sucks and hates all of us.

Actually multiple Teletoon cartoons are just lost to time, station x in a way is kinda lucky having 7 episodes survive.

[peachierainbows]

we love us some lost media girlies

[sanstropfremir]

I might just go on a huge tangent on here so I sincerely apologize, but I think this is something you've slightly touched on before, so maybe it's interesting to you? About the fact that literally Nobody on the staff/people who work behind the scenes of everything in the kpop industry are credited, mentioned or acknowledged for their work (other than, for example, the surface level “the designer deserves a raise!!!” that i so often see in mv comments :/). What I wanted to talk about specifically though is the company’s complete lack of crediting of these people?? I wanted to look into who directed this new mv that just dropped that I really liked the artistry, editing, and general composition of, but I found absolutely nothing across the group’s yt videos or their pages of who the director is, perhaps the set designer, editor, etc. Utterly taken aback, I checked the descriptions of other kpop music videos, from the most popular to more unknown groups (Twice, Dongkiz, to name a few), and again, nothing. I thought I was going insane, so I looked at mvs for like Amercian bands, and their video details are completely filled with the information of the producer, the recording studio, mixer, master, etc. etc, my point is: so much more than just the group’s twitter or merch page??? I’m like what is going on?? I noticed the kpop mv's only list licensing info at least, but so did the american ones? Idk. It’s either me not knowing where to look, or maybe I’m late to the fact that that is just how things work with kpop group companies or the industry as whole, just giving you no details as to who the hell else worked on this mv or song. I love my biases and appreciate their contributions, but I do not buy for a second that, more often than not, they wrote or produced or mixed absolutely nothing. I think it’s a huge shame that this is done because it reinforces the false idea that the idols are the ones responsible for everything we’re seeing and listening to. Maybe that’s the point, and that’s exactly what the industry wants you to believe, which that just makes it really sad. (Wait also maybe it all gets hidden because its work for hire or the companies buy ownership copyright...)

so i want to clarify some things for you, from the perspective of someone who works in the arts industry. firstly, and most importantly: visible credits exist in western filmic media because of unions. and there are still a LOT of fields that are not unionized. for thousands of years it was fundamentally understood that no performance based art form was done singularly by an individual, so there was often not a reason for there to be 'credits' in the first place. the whole assuming the face of the project is the person who did the most work thing? that's a very new phenomenon in the history of art, and it's capitalism's fault.

secondly: um. you are definitely not looking in the right places bc people are ABSOLUTELY credited? especially music production staff? i guess if you only look at a music video then sure yea there's not always credits there, but companies literally release tracklists and highlight medleys on their main social medias AS PROMOTION that have LISTS of their arrangers and composers. hell, tan's most recent tracklist has their fucking midi programmer on it????

also..............the fucking ALBUMS HAVE CREDITS IN THEM. i can't believe i have to say this but THE ALBUMS ARE THE MAIN PRODUCT AND THEY HAVE PAGES OF CREDITS IN THEM. i...????

like???

i got addy (@hoforwonho) to send these to me, these are from a lucy album and nayeon's album, and they literally have pages of credits???

lastly, and most importantly: the only people who are being 'fooled' into thinking that idols are 'producing' most of the content are western fans. because that is the stereotype promoted BY THE WESTERN MUSIC INDUSTRY. so that is the lens through which you view the korean music industry. koreans and korean fans are well aware that idols do not produce their own artistic content, there is quite literally a stigma around idols in sk about how they are not viewed as artists SPECIFICALLY because of this. gdragon and jonghyun were HUGE deals for being some of the first idol producers + songwriters. music is a huge part of the korean entertainment industry and people who make music are very much a visible part of it. kim eana is a very famous lyricist and she has a popular radio show. kbs just did a whole competition show featuring producers as the contestants. companies are not required to put credits in music videos because music videos are only one part of a kpop cb, and they are also not obligated to put those credits in english. just because you can't find something doesn't mean that it doesn't exist and the whole industry is at fault for it.