Personal Lost Media

Nah, I didn't have anything special either. I had a Sony Handicam (that I couldn't figure out if it was possible to edit the discs) and a smaller camera about the size of an old iPhone and thick as a brick that you could only do so much with. The battery would die fairly quick and I had to have it repaired since things got misaligned after a bad fall. Outside that, I was using WMM and Audacity like anyone else in the mid-late 2000s. I had a bootlegged editing program on the side, but I forgot the name and I mostly used it for school projects since I had more stuff to work with.

Most of my drawings pre 2018 are completely lost to time

Yeah, sucks. Any artists reading here, if you got traditional drawings, keep them a container and put them in a storage space, just so you can see your art progression. With digital artists, save them to the cloud. I post my digital art on twitter and discord, but you could never know when a MySpace could happen where they could explode and everything posted there gets lost.

I used to make AMVs that I uploaded to YouTube, most of them made with Windows Movie Maker, where I'd take Super Sentai theme songs (and sometimes Power Rangers) and mix them with Digimon clips (most of the time). I have most of them backed up, but a few of them are completely lost. While most of the lost ones I'm not too unhappy about losing because I thought they were cringe, there was one last one that I'm not happy about losing. The vid was a mix between the theme song from Magiranger with clips from Yes Pretty Cure 5 GoGo. It got deleted by YouTube because of copyright infringement (thanks TOEI) and the computer I made the vid on had a power surge and now can't be turned on.

This is probably a good time to tell I've only seen a few episodes of Pretty Cure at all: the first episode of Futari wa, dubbed into English (when it got shown at a convention in London about 10 years ago), the one where Nagisa, Honoka and their classmates sew a blanket as a wedding gift for their teacher, dubbed in Malay (when the Malay dub was shown on NTV7 years ago) and the first few episodes of Yes Pretty Cure 5. It didn't help progress on the subs were sluggish back in 2007, so I ended up following the series through synopses on the PreCure Livejournal. Futari wa has a nice theme song and I was interested in Yes Pretty Cure 5 because it was a five girl team, so reminded me of Power Rangers. I haven't seen any of the other series outside of clips and I can't tell what Cure belongs to what series after Heartcatch.

I know Glitter Force was shown on the tv station London Live in the UK a few years ago, but I couldn't be bothered to get up early enough to watch it. I would be interested in watching it, given it's also a five person team.

That AMV getting taken down killed my YouTube Channel if anything, since I'd already earnt a couple of strikes, one from uploading a full episode of Kamen Rider Den-O and the other for uploading the music video of "Climax Jump Den Liner Form" from Kamen Rider Den-O. Guess I painted a target on myself for the TOEI company to shoot at.

*Deviantart *YouTube

Without a doubt, the Neopets fanfiction I wrote as a young kid. Unfortunately it’s almost certainly inaccessible (I wrote it directly into the Neopian Times submission box, and the email attached to my account at the time was an ancient family email that I don’t think anyone in my family still has the password to), but I look back on how goofy it was quite fondly.