Post by LSuperSonicQ on Dec 14, 2021 7:57:41 GMT
I hear this topic get brought up pretty often in the community and it's something I've been hearing ever since A Day with SpongeBob ended. Though it raises a good point that there hasn't really been a big search since then and that was 6 years ago at this point.
I'm probably going to be repeating some of the points others have made in this thread but for one I agree that it has to happen on it's own and cannot be crafted. I think in a lot of cases people bring forward a topic or try and rally a search group around it but really the interest has to come from people that are interested in the topic itself. This relates to the second point which is nostalgia and wide appeal as most of the big searches so far have involved content that was known to be from a childhood TV show or something relating to a well known character. This kind of thing makes it easy for people to identify with and will make them want to uncover.
The spooky element is definitely a bit of a factor too but not necessarily the whole package and in a lot of cases the big lost media searches were big or getting big before YouTubers made videos about them so that doesn't even have to be a big part of it either. It's also interesting to think about the searches that never reached the highest tier of popularity despite having most of the right factors- Slamfest '99, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Phantom Blood and I'll even throw Pink Morning Cartoon in there. These searches did get reasonably popular and there were great communities that helped find them but they never got quite as big.
This goes back to what I mentioned before about relatability and the nostalgia people have that would drive them to find something. Yeah Smash Bros. and JoJo are popular but it's not quite the same as a segment from Sesame Street- a show that we all watched growing up or an early Nickelodeon short that might not even exist. I'm sure at some point we will have another big search but it's gonna be unpredictable and might not even start on the Wiki depending on what the topic is.
I'm probably going to be repeating some of the points others have made in this thread but for one I agree that it has to happen on it's own and cannot be crafted. I think in a lot of cases people bring forward a topic or try and rally a search group around it but really the interest has to come from people that are interested in the topic itself. This relates to the second point which is nostalgia and wide appeal as most of the big searches so far have involved content that was known to be from a childhood TV show or something relating to a well known character. This kind of thing makes it easy for people to identify with and will make them want to uncover.
The spooky element is definitely a bit of a factor too but not necessarily the whole package and in a lot of cases the big lost media searches were big or getting big before YouTubers made videos about them so that doesn't even have to be a big part of it either. It's also interesting to think about the searches that never reached the highest tier of popularity despite having most of the right factors- Slamfest '99, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Phantom Blood and I'll even throw Pink Morning Cartoon in there. These searches did get reasonably popular and there were great communities that helped find them but they never got quite as big.
This goes back to what I mentioned before about relatability and the nostalgia people have that would drive them to find something. Yeah Smash Bros. and JoJo are popular but it's not quite the same as a segment from Sesame Street- a show that we all watched growing up or an early Nickelodeon short that might not even exist. I'm sure at some point we will have another big search but it's gonna be unpredictable and might not even start on the Wiki depending on what the topic is.
