I'm very tired and irrtated with this community

While I agree this is an entirely subjective topic I will disagree and say that there are definitely pieces of lost media more important than others. You cannot tell me the lost works of Shakespeare are just as important as a YouTube Poop that garnered 300 views. And I know I'm probably not gonna change anything with this post, but I wanted to speak my peace anyway. I always have supported people looking for the little things and I commend their passion for it, but at this point it seems the little things have overtaken searching for the big things. I know I am not alone in feeling this way. I have seen people actively pressure others to help search for things. If you participate in the Discord server, the On The Hunt channels were created exactly for this reason. My problem is not just people searching for things that I find to be less important than others (which I know is a matter of opinion), but I also have a problem with many member's entitlement. I have seen many people whine about not being helped in their topic, begging leads, or complaining that the moderators don't want to be affiliated with leaked content.

I have created multiple threads, I have created multiple articles, and I have found multiple pieces of lost media. Nearly every example of lost media that I've found or helped find hardly anyone cares about, and I'm content with that because that's extremely common in this community. This is not the first time I've had someone tell me "why not contribute instead of complain?" when I have definitely been contributing. I have even gone as far as calling crew members, archivists, and artists that are connected to various examples of lost media. I even wrote an entire handbook to help people search for lost media, which includes examples from my own searches, and it's been pinned to the top of this very forum. At this point sometimes I ask myself if I contribute to much. I've even helped people in searches that I myself am not that passionate about and sometimes were years old and nobody had paid attention to before me. I don't mean to sound pompous or arrogant, but please do not accuse me of not contributing. I wrote my first article when I was 13 years old and I start my second year of college next month.

This I agree with entirely. I myself have looked for media in languages I don't even speak and have even had a hand in restoring them. My main problem was not just searching for these dubs, my problem was that often these dubs are searched by people who either don't speak the language yet the language they do speak is found or don't watch the show. I fully support the search for media in other languages.

I knew this post would stir up some argument, but I really wanted to get this off my chest and I knew I wasn't the only one that felt this way. I don't mean to sound old, but it felt far different back around 2017. Clockman was far more interesting than most of the things I see searched for today. Turn On, Toon Maker's Sailor Moon and Cracks were far more enticing (and also had way better chances of being found).