Whats a piece of lost media that will never get found
Apr 21, 2020 20:41:43 GMT
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Post by thatgamingasshole on Apr 21, 2020 20:41:43 GMT
My best guess, from what I have heard of "Him", is one of two possibilities.
The first and perhaps most obvious is that it never existed, it was some kind of a hoax or urban legend, but this is unlikely due to the fact some genuine evidence exists that "Him" is real.
The other possibility--and forgive me if this offends someone--is that this was mainly held up as "important" or whatever by the Atheist community, akin to some sort of a second coming (ironically) and thus was less influenced by the Gay community, and more by Atheists, as a symbol of their growing "power" or importance. Or their desire to have some growing importance anyway. As such other groups, and that includes the actual Gay community (most of which would be religiously minded as Christianity is highly common in the West regardless of gender or sexual orientation) would view "Him" as being offensive and dispose of it. So it may have existed, assuming it existed at all, as some minor attempt at humor or religious parody among a smaller-than-average minority of Atheist Gays. Thus whatever it was, it's lost to history as it may have always just been a running gag in Gay clubs by a handful of people who think Bill Maher is a funny too...
Just a thought.
Probably the numerous master recordings that were lost in the Universal Studios fire. That means a lot of cuts, outtakes, unreleased songs, etc. may never see the light of day.
I had to pull up the Wikipedia page on it since I wasn't sure which fire you were referring to. It turns out Universal Studios had one in 2008, and I was thinking about the Fox vault fire in 1937 and the MGM vault fire in 1965. I'm looking over it now and the losses are absolutely devastating, and I thought the MGM fire was bad because we lost tons of movies (including London After Midnight and The Blind Bargain) and Tom and Jerry cartoons. It's horrible to know we've lost hundreds of thousands of pieces of master tapes and recordings in general.
On a similar note, everything lost after the 2019 Myspace screw up too. Over 50 million songs from 2005 to 2015 were permanently lost due to a server migration error. However, Internet Archive was able to salvage close to 500,000 mp3 files, which is amazing - but it still barely puts a dent in recovering everything that we've lost.