Post by Princess Viola on Sept 12, 2022 1:17:48 GMT
I honestly don't even remember how I discovered the wiki, all I remember is joining back when it was still on wikia back in early-ish 2014 and the whole big kerfuffle when it moved to its own domain. I don't think I started watching any lost media YouTubers until a few years after that, so it was probably my general interest in the topic that led me to find the wiki.
Lost movies were already interesting to me, when I lurked on Wikipedia... seeing that some movies are gone forever, shrouded in mystery.
I discovered in the late 2000s the Angry Video Game Nerd, got addicted... I found out more about James Rolfe the creator... James Rolfe has a great culture and passion for cinema, especially old horror movies. When he reviews movies as himself, he can be interesting too.
His Top 10 Lost Horror Films was fascinating to me, and I began to search for more info about these movies...
"Life Without Soul" stood out, for some reason... I guess I thought the title looked quite dramatic.
And I found the movie's article on the Lost Media Wiki (on Wikia). I came back later for more... got interested, wanted to contribute... and the rest's history.
This video motivated me into creating articles for some of the movies Rolfe's mentioned.
And added my own favorites about Lost Media.
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How about you? How did you discover the Lost Media Wiki?
BlameitonJorges Top 40 Lost/Banned kids shows from 2014 or so. When he mentioned the Lost Billy and Mandy short Maxwell Atoms created in college (long since found) that was enough to make start searching around, which lead me here.
Last Edit: Sept 13, 2022 1:07:54 GMT by lostdaisy77
The point I became aware of it was roughly 2015-2016 when I first picked up the channels Blameitonjorge and LSuperSonicQ. Before this I have always been interested with mystery so it was only a matter of time.
I think it was when I was in middle school, I was super into the show Jimmy Two Shoes and was looking upon more info on the show at the time, when I stumbled upon the article. I knew about lost media beforehand through video game betas and tvtrope's trivia page, but had no idea about the wider lost media movement before then. It was definitely before the move to the current domain, back when it was on wikia.
One time, I decided to look up Igdoof (a comic Jeff Kinney made before DOAWK) , and I found the article on the LMW. Around the time I looked it up, only a handful of comics have surfaced, and it was unknown how many were made.
Post by lostmedia1975 on Oct 16, 2023 15:22:51 GMT
This is a long one. It happened back in Late June-Mid July 2020. It was evening, and I was scrolling through the awful movies wiki (back when it still existed), the “corruption in test screening” page to be specific, and that’s where I heard of the black cauldron deleted scenes.
After hearing about the deleted scenes having been fully animated, I then, in the moment, remembered having looked at the page for sharptooth on the land before time wiki, I recalled the trivia section of the page mentioning multiple fully animated scenes having been cut for being “too scary”. I naturally became very intrigued with this, as I already knew about lost/cancelled/unreleased film (I still didn’t know about the wiki or the community at the time), but the fact deleted scenes, let alone fully animated ones, being lost also intrigued me.
The rest is history, and although the search isn’t that popular, I’m still holding out hope that someone does still exist (I even made a thread for it if you guys who haven’t seen it yet want to check it out, any attention at all is much appreciated).
Was this too much detail?
Last Edit: Oct 16, 2023 15:27:46 GMT by lostmedia1975
Around 2017/18, I came across a lost cartoon pilot video by some animation YouTuber. The video wasn't very good, but the concept of Lost Media fascinated me, and soon I fell down the rabbit hole of Blameitonjorge and similar creators' videos, and soon after I was browsing the Wiki very frequently (Though I have only started contributing to it this year).