I think this is 100% true. Dunno why so many people think this Orange guy was real lmao- Lorenzo is the "real creator" of the listing. He just wanted us off his ass- XD
I think we should stop obsessing over this spongebob film we still don't have a straight answer as to it existing, and focus more on the movies Regal Film actually released.
I agree. At the end of the day, it never existed in the first place. The story is over, and it isn't really going anywhere else. I was just stating my two cents on the matter. I can't deny that it is fun to look back on how wild and anticlimactic the search was at the end of the day.
As far as I can tell, the only time somebody successfully managed to convince this forum's community that their ARG was actually real happened in the RPGMakerFan12 search. So I'd call that a pretty big plot twist.
Everything to do with Pink Morning Cartoon would also count - that was like an endless plot twist generator.
_alexpine_ on discord. 2018 was HOW many years ago?!?! 2 correct unidentified/lost media solves out of my probably hundreds of bad guesses isn't THAT bad of a track record, right?
I'd say that any lost media that were thought to be not real (clockman, cracks, pink morning cartoon) turning out to be the exact opposite. With the most baffling being Pink Morning. This is why I am not too skeptical about any lost media claim, cause you never know what bizarre media is out there.
For me personally it would be Cinder's long-unreleased 2001 debut album "Break Your Silence" randomly getting uploaded to official music streaming platforms in late 2020 with no announcement whatsoever.
I'd say that any lost media that were thought to be not real (clockman, cracks, pink morning cartoon) turning out to be the exact opposite. With the most baffling being Pink Morning. This is why I am not too skeptical about any lost media claim, cause you never know what bizarre media is out there.
Agreed. I mean, for crying out loud, Battle Team exists! Not to mention the rabbit hole known as RSD Game-Maker which contains such classics as the Badman trilogy(a series of action-platformers starring a Belgian Batman parody that seems to take itself seriously like the Tim Burton movies & B:TAS, but has goofy scenarios similar to Batman '66 & the Filmation cartoons), Explorer Jacko(a game Azurelore Korrigan made to satisfy a Deep Space Nine fan, even though she had never seen that show), Flying Guts(a platformer by Marty Valenti inspired by Doom, Bill And Ted & possibly some anime like AKIRA. It also seemingly only saw the demo version released with nobody knowing of when the full version came out, if it ever DID), the Mister Spiff series(Adam Tyner's fever dream-esque series of games, including 2 spinoffs called CGA Hell & Power Flux), Popa(a surprisingly amazing single-screen game filled with abstract coloring & experimental puzzles), Mortal Harvey(where Earth must be saved by a freakin' hamster & its inspired by a Weird Al song) & last but most absurd of all, the Gary Acord games, which are just... something else.
For me, probably the Pokemon Gold and Silver Spaceworld 1997 prototypes. Before those dropped, we knew practically NOTHING about the state of the game at the time. We had like five minutes of blurry footage, some screenshots, and half-remebered sketches of a Girafarig with two heads and some kinda fire Pikachu. There was very little public knowledge suggesting that almost the entire game was redone during development, we knew it took a long time to come out but the available footage honestly showed very little. For all we knew it could have just been two or three mockup towns created for the sake of a demo and hyping a game Nintendo knew wouldn't really come out for years anyway. We've learned a lot since too, especially with more leaks, but in 2018 getting the SW97 beta was hugely eye-opening. Even in the earliest days when the ROM was just a rumored leak sometime on the horizon, it's not like people widely expected we would get more than a simple demo, much less basically the entire game frozen at a certain point in development.
Post by lostmedia1975 on Oct 23, 2023 15:54:26 GMT
For me, it would probably me the cancelled popeyemovie animatic getting leaked online back in July 2022. I believe the King features second attempts cancellation is what resulted in the film getting leaked online, and it was a pleasant surprise. I hope it happens again in the future with more cancelled films, but it also feels like a fluke.
We don't often think of it as lost media as it was found long before there was much of an active scene but Cheetahmen 2 is a pretty interesting story especially with the twist of a random warehouse being discovered along with all known copies as if they had been awaiting distribution for all those years.
If I remember correctly, the Kingdom Hearts TV show animatic couldn't legally be released by the main animator until it suddenly just...could be released? (Youtuber Rebeltaxi referenced the short and the legal situation all the way back in 2016) Granted, in October 2022, Disney DID request it be taken down from Youtube again, but by then, anyone who cared already had downloaded and saved it for preservation anyway.
I'd say that any lost media that were thought to be not real (clockman, cracks, pink morning cartoon) turning out to be the exact opposite. With the most baffling being Pink Morning. This is why I am not too skeptical about any lost media claim, cause you never know what bizarre media is out there.
Yeah, sort of like that haunting lost media story of the girl/guy who claims to have been in a religious cult that made children's puppet/animation videos. Like, it seems insane, but plenty of uncanny valley religious entertainment existed in the past and is still made in some quantity today so it's not an impossibility at all.
If I remember correctly, the Kingdom Hearts TV show animatic couldn't legally be released by the main animator until it suddenly just...could be released? (Youtuber Rebeltaxi referenced the short and the legal situation all the way back in 2016) Granted, in October 2022, Disney DID request it be taken down from Youtube again, but by then, anyone who cared already had downloaded and saved it for preservation anyway.
If only this happened more often.
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Probably not a crazy event, but Dycaite getting anonymously emailed a copy of the Cracks Sesame Street short, and it being a completely different version than the one Jon Armond was shown. This one still bothers me lol
This is a bit late, but it's not entirely accurate to say it was on YouTube "the whole time." It was uploaded to YouTube only a month prior to when NitrateNerd identified the real title as Sally, in a pure coincidence of timing.
The YouTube upload was itself a mirror of a file on Ulozto, a Czech based filelocker, and it had been on there since 2014. But in 2012, at the point in time when the search began, the video was not online anywhere yet (as far as we know.)
Also goes without saying, but the YouTube video did not have "Clockman" in its title at first, otherwise it would've been found immediately. It was renamed to include the word Clockman in the title after the fact, when AAA Studio became aware of it's lost media status.
The way this story is presented sometimes makes it sound like they forgot to run a basic YouTube search. Trust me, they were very thorough and definitely competent enough to have searched YouTube for videos of Pinwheel before. If the video had been there the whole time with an obvious title, it would not have become a long drawn out thing.
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