How did you discover the Lost Media Wiki?

Little bit of both.

I'd been vaguely aware of LMW because I'd heard of the "Cracks" search on TV Tropes, but what actually initially got me invested in this place was when I heard a search was starting for the Roly-Polys games.

(I'm a huge Osamu Sato fan, and his once-missing Chu-Teng was probably the thing that introduced me to the exciting nature of lost media.)

Funny thing is, that's an "actual" rumor about a cry baby bridge around where I live in Illinois. It's all bs but every one talks about it.

It was a combination of factors for me. I remember checking out the lost films subreddit a couple of times but I really got interested once Cry Baby Lane resurfaced - that piece of lost media was so legendary there were creepy pastas written about why Nick never aired it again (all BS of course). It really amazes me to think that we can have tv/movies/music/games/etc that just completely vanish without a trace in the past 25 years. And it wasn't just the lost media that caught my attention, but the fact that there were people dedicated to finding this stuff. I didn't think that many people cared beforehand.

My curiosity never waned. I don't really remember how, could have been google, could have been a link in someone's wikia profile, but I stumbled across the LMW back in like early 2014. Read the articles obsessively and realized there was some media I was aware of that wasn't on the wiki, so I contributed, including my personal holy grail, Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa. I haven't contributed as much as I've wanted to in the past few months but now that Dycaite has sacrificed however many virgins it took to get Believe in Santa, I think there's some more stuff I can add that hasn't been covered yet.

I found out about it today from this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=owWtVVOSW0c

I found the LMW through searching up stuff about Armen Meiwes due to morbid curiosity after hearing about him in a class and my deep interest in the history of dark and strange crime. I also tend to go to wikis first when beginning research, and thus I found the original LMW as one of my results and headed right for it. I quickly got through the article on Meiwes and kept on searching into the wiki, my interest ever increasing. I was already into sites like Unseen64, so LMW was such a joy to discover and I still love just going to random pages all over the site. I've lurked since I first found the site, and recently decided to join the community and help find lost media myself!~ So yeah, that's my story. :3

Was looking for the Christine Chubbuck video.. found this site instead, and it told me that there was no trace of it anywhere. Looked around a little more and now I visit almost daily lol