How did you get into lost/obscure media?

I stumbled upon the original wikia one day though I don't remember how. What I do know was back then they were hunting down the McDonaldland Loch VHS tape. It was interesting watching everything that happened with that.

I’m a sucker for old media in general. Also I’m a sucker for mysteries. I always wonder to myself “what could have happened to this piece of lost media??” whenever I read about a certain piece. It’s so interesting!

I like the cutting room floor a lot (even met rick fox one time at a furry con cool guy.)

And me and my girlfriend were talking about the cutting room floor and games that never came to be, she then bought up the lost media wiki and explained to me what it was, I started browsing it actively and reading through mostly the NSFL Articles because mysterious deaths are interesting.

I blame it on getting into horror movies and finding the VHS collector scene on YouTube in the mid-2000s. I didn't know there was so much stuff out there, let alone how valuable and sought-after some tapes were.

That made finding so much as clips of ultra-rare, unreleased, or previously lost films such a joy back then or even as "recent" as five or so years ago when you would be lucky if you could find an IMDb page for it. When I started getting into the gorehound scene a few years later (like 2008 or 2010), that only amplified and while the gorehound community on Youtube has died down heavily over the past decade, there's still a lot of great people talking about and discussing stuff like that, such as Cinemas Underbelly. The same can be said for bands with hard-to-find albums, EPs, demos, or splits, especially if even huge and well-documented fan sites don't even acknowledge them.

It honestly just fascinated me knowing that there are some things that have been missing for years or were never available to the public. It kinda makes me realize how important archival is because if something isn't archived properly, it will end up being lost to the sands of time.

I became interested when I was about 10, reading about the Marx Brothers first film, "Humor Risk". It all snowballed from there!