How did you become interested in lost media?

It's hard to say specifically, but I remember getting really into it a few years before I knew there an online community for it. If I had to guess, probably 2012 or 2013 maybe when I would do film scouting for a horror forum I was on for titles that the community could talk about. I had no idea there was so much out there and that door just opened more after finding my way here.

I think all people who were teenagers in the mid-2010s had some interest in the "horror" side of the internet, and lost media had a natural overlap with that - the most famous searches at the time were those known for being kinda creepy, like Clock Man and Cracks. So, probably a YouTube video about one of those things was recommended to me, and it went from there.

I think I also got interested in Lost Media because of blameitonjorge back around the same time frame.  There was a video about Lost Disney media he published and I got interested because the thumbnail showed an image of "Nightmare Ned" among the character collage. I remembered that cartoon very well when it first aired in 1997.  All episodes have since been located.

I don't remember, tbh. It's been so long. It might've been one of blameitonjorge's old videos, or at least, that's how I probably first learned about lost media. I got into lost media around 2016 or 2017 thanks to LSuperSonicQ. I didn't start getting involved with the community directly until the past year or two, though. Sorry for rambling.

Tbh, I think I was always kinda interested in lost media. I remember back in 2011-2013 searching for rarities and gems from various sorts of media - whether it was abandonware games, old sporting events, or episodes of shows that I vaguely remembered but couldn't put the nail on. I remember back in 2012-2014 I was obsessed with finding early 2000s MLB content, in particular the 2000-2001 time period (especially full games) as I was feeling very nostalgic for that era in baseball.

But blameitonjorge's 2016 video really cemented it for me and it was an "ah ha!" moment. I love the way that video is presented - not necessarily creepy but slightly uncanny and lucid. The music remix in that video goes hard too. Introduced me to HUVA Network.