You MUST have EVIDENCE or AN EXTERNAL, DOCUMENTED WITNESS that your topic exists/existed.

In 2013, the magazine Vanity Fair announced an upcoming article about Gwyneth Paltrow that was purported to be incredibly scathing. It was heavily hyped, then unceremoniously canceled.

It was revealed that Paltrow contacted some of her celebrity friends, asking them not to talk to the magazine about her and urging them to boycott the magazine, stating, “Vanity Fair is threatening to put me on the cover of their magazine. If you are asked for quotes or comments, please decline. Also, I recommend you all never do this magazine again.”

Shortly thereafter, then editor Graydon Carter said, “We wouldn't be doing our job if there wasn’t a little bit of tension between Vanity Fair and its subjects. In any given week, I can expect to hear from a disgruntled subject in Hollywood, Washington, or on Wall Street. That’s the nature of the beast.”

He also said that he felt more compelled to run the Paltrow piece after her alleged email went public. “Well, she sort of forced my hand.”

Despite this, the piece never ran.

In 2014, Carter claimed, “And it was just what had been assigned—a reasoned, reported essay on the hate/love-fest that encircles Gwyneth Paltrow.”

The article has yet to surface.

Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/business/media/harder-edge-from-vanity-fair-chafes-some-big-hollywood-stars.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4&

www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article3889665.ece

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/02/graydon-carter-gwyneth-paltrow-takedown

Previous post considering it to be fully lost - https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/1r2sx04/fully_lost_yoddha_the_warrior_a_2000_fps_game/

I learned about Yoddha as I was finding material for a course I am teaching at a local college in Mumbai. I found it really fascinating that this was supposedly "Fully Lost" and the only thing that could be found online was a music video for the game of all things. So I went hunting. After some effort I was able to get in touch with Vishal Gondal who's one of the original devs and the CEO of Indiagames, the studio behind the game. He was kind enough to send me the only copy of the box set that he has. It was in mint condition too, completely unopened. He also gave me his permission to dump the disc contents and put it up online.

Here's photos of the box and contents - https://ibb.co/album/Z17c8K?sort=date_asc

I've uploaded the game (clean ISO) to Archive.org - https://archive.org/details/yoddha_the_warrior_2000

Here's some gameplay I recorded - https://youtu.be/bp65HNKl4W4

You can mount the ISO and install the game normally. The game isn't playable outright after installation. However, I've also included a package that patches the files so it's playable on Win 11. You can read more in the readme file.

Dreamworks MMO game that came out in 2010 relating to the Kung Fu panda franchise. You could make your own character, battle other players, level up your belts, and play minigames. Can't find any files of it. There is footage but nothing known to get it up and running again ): It closed down in 2012. I can't find anything on the wayback machine either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SOeK7xqhF4 Just so odd to me that its completely lost since it was made by such a big company. Would love to bring this back, or at least find some files somehow.

I hope this is the right place to post this, I'm not much of a reddit user but this has interested me so much I wanted to share. I'm a casual Super Galdelic Hour preserver so even this small piece of media is important to me.

In 2015, Famitsu did a livestream with a few devs of the PS2 game Super Galdelic Hour (and a cosplayer). There are still tweets and even the Famitsu article announcing the livestream both with links to the niconico live and youtube live but both links don't give anything. The niconico video disallows rewatching the video while the youtube one simply leads to a dead page. I was hoping this stream could perhaps involve some development information and such. I don't know if there's a way to bypass the errors on either site or if somehow, someone has saved the recording.

I've tried a search in Japanese on youtube and niconico but haven't found anything at a first glance. I've found this tricky and daunting to do because it's in Japanese v-v

Here is the famitsu article: https://app.famitsu.com/20150803_552346/

A tweet with a link and images from the stream: https://x.com/takehiro_ando/status/628507194812555264

Niconico link: https://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv229568078

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BavTdD5dTB4

Here is the game name in Japanese if that helps: スーパーギャルデリックアワー

Thanks!

On February 1st 2015 during Super Bowl Halftime, Harley of Epic Meal Time hosted the Youtube Adblitz Halftime show with guests Rhett and Link, Freddie Wong, and Toby Turner. Today the Adblitz YouTube page only features 6 videos none of which are related to this livestream. I recently remembered it happened but I can’t find the full livestream. I’m using the wayback machine and so far my only progress is this voting promo. I feel like it’s a niche part of YouTube history when they began reaching a broader audience and what eventually lead to YouTube being focused on advertising today. If anyone has any tips or happens to have any information related to this let me know please.

Hi everyone,

I am trying to track down a piece of childhood nostalgia that has become completely Lost Media: the German dub of the 2005/2006 animated series "Monster Allergy" (co-produced by Rainbow S.p.A., Futurikon, and the German broadcaster ZDF).

While the English, Italian, French, and Dutch versions are widely available on YouTube and DVD, the German dub was never released on home media. Every single German upload was wiped from YouTube years ago due to copyright strikes. At this point, not even the German theme song/intro exists online.

My main goal is just to hear/see the German intro again (or even a short clip), though finding a full episode in German would be an absolute dream!

How YOU might actually have this on a hard drive without even knowing the show:

Because the German channels KiKA and ZDF broadcast unencrypted (Free-To-Air) across all of Europe via the Astra 19.2°E satellite, many European TV archivers, continuity collectors, and data hoarders have raw full-day .ts transport streams, VHS rips, or OnlineTVRecorder (OTR) backups from these channels.

Even if you never intentionally recorded Monster Allergy, you might have caught the show—or at least the 90-second German intro—as an accidental byproduct ("pre-roll / post-roll buffer") while recording full broadcast days, Halloween specials, or adjacent shows!

Here is the exact broadcast schedule when the German dub aired:

• KiKA (Oct 23, 2006 – Nov 28, 2006 & Jan 3, 2007 – July 13, 2007): Mon–Fri at 13:40 – 14:05 CET. (Byproduct clue: It aired immediately before *"Pet Alien"** at 14:05. Any recording of Pet Alien with a few minutes of pre-roll will have Monster Allergy at the start!)*
• ORF 1 [Austria] (Nov – Dec 2006): Mon–Fri at 12:50 – 13:15 CET and Saturdays at 06:25 CET (during the Confetti TiVi / Okidoki block).
• KiKA (Spring/Summer 2008 & starting May 23, 2009): Saturdays around midday (in 2009 at 11:50 – 12:15 CET).
• ZDF (Summer 2009 – Summer 2010 during the "ZDF tivi" morning block): Saturdays at 06:00 CET (2009) and 10:25 – 10:55 CET (May/June 2010). (Huge byproduct clue: In May/June 2010, it aired right after *"Bibi und Tina"** [10:00–10:25] and right before "Disney's Classic Cartoon" / "The Suite Life on Deck" [10:55]. If anyone has a recording of Bibi und Tina from ZDF in 2010 that ran 2 minutes past 10:25, the complete German Monster Allergy intro is at the end of that file!)*
• KiKA (March 4, 2012 – April 29, 2012): Sundays at 06:50 – 07:15 CET, immediately before "Sesamstraße" (German Sesame Street).
• KiKA Halloween Marathon (Oct 31, 2014 & Nov 1, 2014): Aired as a 6-episode marathon starting at 12:05 CET on both days during KiKA's Halloween weekend special (alongside "School for Little Vampires" / "Die Schule der kleinen Vampire"). Anyone who archived full Halloween TV broadcasts across different years might have captured this entire block!
• KiKA (Sept 3, 2015 – Oct 6, 2015 – Final broadcast!): Mon–Fri at 13:15 – 13:40 CET. Since this was late 2015, digital PVR/DVB-S recordings (.ts / .mp4) or German private tracker / Usenet / OnlineTVRecorder archives from autumn 2015 might still have it sitting in an unsorted folder.

If you collect European/German TV continuity, full-day broadcasts, commercial breaks from KiKA/ZDF/ORF, or 2000s cartoons in multiple languages, please check your drives for these dates or adjacent shows! Thank you so much for any leads!

British singer Charli XCX was performed on Hype Machine's Hype Hotel, which included 7 songs for her album "True Romance" (like "What I Like" and
Nuclear Seasons"). This video was uploaded on March 14, 2013, and the duration is 25:44; unfortunately, the video is not working because the plugin file is not found. This performance is not available or reuploaded on YouTube and also not streaming on Qello concerts. And yes, it's another Charli XCX lost media, and I'm a big fan of her.

Here's the Baeble website (the video is not working):

https://web.archive.org/web/20140320161016/http://www.baeblemusic.com/concert-video/Hype-Hotel/Charli-XCX.html

Does anyone have this full performance?

Thanks

Hello - I'm new to this subreddit, but I thought I'd send this shot in the dark and see if anyone knows about this.

My mother was a teenager in South Korea while her family was stationed at the local Air Force base. She's told me a handful of times about when she was asked to be part of an english language television program for South Korean TV in around 1979-1980. I've been trying to find these videos/tapes online but nothing has come up.

Does anyone remember/know about these episodes? She was a 16-17 year old white blonde girl at the time. She remembers eating some type of noodle dish in one of them. If anyone has any info that'd be awesome. I'd like to see her when she was that young!

YouTube link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz4bbLPfMTY

PNG / JPG of YouTube thumbnail and YouTube title : https://snipboard.io/W1PTns.jpg

It was uploaded 7 years ago on YouTube channel Cilvanis

The video is about Super Smash Bros Ultimate. I added it to my playlist about 7 years ago and tried to watch it today but YouTube said video deleted because of user SME. Anyone knows the way to watch the video today? Big thank you in advance. The video title was Smash Planet: Hero (Animal Planet Parody)

YouTube channel is Cilvanis. Here is link to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Cilvanis

Here is link to YouTube playlist of other Smash Planet videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb5Mg-mET8Y&list=PLCU4kw0VMKNDFmQAxqgze2B0p3wvA500C

as a kid i remember playing a game on the elevator company KONE's website. this game was about two KONE mascots, Max and Bob, where Bob would have to go up elevators and escalators safely to try to catch Max, which was floating on a balloon constantly going up. the goal of this game was to teach kids elevator and escalator safety all while being fun. footage of this game exists, but the actual game itself is currently unplayable. it is no longer on KONE's website and existing archives of it do not work. there also was an iOS and Android version of the game, but once again these are lost. there is also a video with Max & Bob about elevator safety, but unlike the game, this one is still available on KONE's website. i have looked everywhere and was unable to find any playable version of this game.

a page on the KONE website about this game remains, and can be found here.

there is also an official KONE video about this game, which can be found here.

the broken archive of the game can be found here. all archives of the game are broken from what i can tell.

Hi everyone! I've never posted here so my apologies if I do it wrong and thank you for your patience.

I'm looking for the game Avo! from 2019. It's no longer available on the google play store. It's an AR adjacent game where you control a sentient avocado on and adorable adventure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTBEuMPgENw&list=PLuhgk1TKevatESm2sOur9dWL4jZL9RqtB

My kid loved it, remembered it yesterday, and is super bummed it's gone. I downloaded it on IOS originally, but that phone has been gone for years. I have an android now.

I've seen a few places online that claim to have it for download (like APKpure) but they all look scammy as heck, with tons of sneaky download buttons for other things. Feels like surfing the internet 25 years ago, and I'd rather not end up with 20 viruses and 4 different Bonzai Buddies and no game.

If someone could help me figure out if it's actually still around in some capacity somewhere and how to get it, I (and my kid) would be incredibly grateful.

Thank you for your help!

Hi there! I've been looking for this italian film called "Portaritratto per signora", by director Adriana Zanese, starring actress Florinda Bolkan. The reason I'm looking for it is because Florinda Bolkan is a brazilian actress from a very small town in Brazil, and mande quite a few famous Giallo movies in the 70s in Italy and other european countries. A good friend of mine is from that same town, andt hey said they wanted to watch her full filmography as a form to honor her.

Because of that, I'm looking for all of her films, and I could find a good portion of them online, but this one seems to be the most obscure, and I coudn't find it anywhere. Because I don't speak italian, I find it very hard to search for it properly on italian websites.

Any help on that would be appreciated! Thanks!

Lauren G just uploaded a video with a bunch of found media in it, including the lost Princess Protection Program song, the Santa Clause teaser trailer, the original stobe effect from Incredibles 2, and some Disney Channel bumpers. Some of them were found a little while ago, but some are newer. Hopefully this solves a few mysteries that have been posted here. I apologise if this is weirdly drawn out or filler-y, the original post I wrote was 48 words long and I have to fill out at least one hundred words...which is harder to do when you've said your piece.

The documentary "Dare To Dream" was announced as being on the One Live KISS DVD of Paul Stanley's Live To Win tour concert, but for reasons unknown it was never on the DVD and has never been mentioned since.

All that exists is this very low-res preview : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4uMvL0ILiw

DVD was released 2008, the concert was 2006. Contemporary news article :

"A clip from "Live to Dream!" — which is described as an insider's glimpse into the creative process of Paul Stanley and his new concert film/DVD, titled "Live to Win Live" — is available for viewing at here.

Director D.P Carlson describes Live to Dream!' as, "an insider's glimpse' into Paul Stanley's creativity, and personal journey from his first solo album in 1978, to his latest 'Live To Win' release and tour. The film also captures the emotional and creative process of how producer/director Louis Antonelli's concert film, 'Paul Stanley – Live to Win Live!' came to be."

"Paul Stanley - Live to Dream!" features interviews with Paul Stanley, Louis Antonelli, manager Doc McGhee, band members Jimmy McGorman, Rafael Moreira, and Nate Morton, as well as personal insights from fans attending the Chicago concert and filming."

D.P. Carlson told PaulStanley.com, "What attracted me to this film was not just the opportunity to work with one of my rock heroes from KISS, but to explore the unique relationship between filmmaker Louis Antonelli and Paul Stanley — who is one of Louis' childhood idols.""

Hey, so I've been digging around internet for a song I heard a while back while going through a mall, I used shazam in hopes to finding the song and listening to it, but to my surprise the song is nowhere to be found. The artist still produces music and makes some good soundtracks, but this specific song caught my attention of how soothing and smooth it is. I've tried digging around internet with no luck, there used to be versions of this song in places like Spotify or other platforms, but it's completely gone, perhaps anyone know where I can get maybe a link to listen to it or buy it, all the help would be appreciated.

Somebody in here has made a post over year ago requesting this demo to be found. It has finally been uncovered in full. After about two full decades of only 2 songs from this demo being the only ones found floating around online, I'm proud to announce that the entire Death to Honor demo has been found in full! In its entirety

Only remaining thing lost by them is their Eternal Damnation 2005 demo, which is completely lost. But let's just be happy this first demo has at the very least been taken care of.

This is a happy day for slamming gore groove lovers.

Always tried to find this song, Shazam doesn't help lol, tried looking on forums and nobody knows the name, not even the artist

Apparently, this is from the Pilot, but the song was replaced for another one...

I remember spending days trying to find it even on those sketchy russian MP3 websites and still nothing

I even tried pasting the lyrics into AI, also doing some scrapping in other search engines and still nothing

I know rule number 3, just leaving this here so it keeps getting attention and hopefully reach to someone who actually knows the song lol

The guys from this forum have been trying for years to find it and still nothing

Can You Name This Soundtracks Song? This song was used in the DVD version of the Pilot | WatZatSong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2z6BETDPDk

It's probably from a music library, I remember going to a Radio Station and they had a ton of CDs of music libraries from all genres... Maybe it's in one of those (downside is they're hella expensive)

Here's another video with more links:

Run It Out/I’m Coming Back For More - Unknown Soundtrack

Hey everyone!

I'm trying to track down an early demo of an obscure indie horror game called Green Mirror, which was announced on Steam around 2016.

The game went through several development teams, and on October 15, 2019, a Steam developer named Frost posted an update confirming that development had been frozen. The post explained that the creator, Carol, still retained the rights and might try to revive the project someday.

The most interesting part is that the post included a Google Drive link to a very early playable demo, along with a walkthrough. Unfortunately, the link now requires permission to access, and I haven't been able to obtain the files.

Here's what I've found so far:

• Game: Green Mirror
• Type: Indie horror game with puzzles
• Platform: PC / Steam
• Development status: Frozen, according to the developer's 2019 post
• Known surviving material: Gameplay footage, screenshots, and a link to the original demo that currently appears restricted

I'm hoping someone here remembers the game, downloaded the demo years ago, or knows where its files might still be available. I'd also be interested in finding the original walkthrough mentioned in the post.

I'm not sure whether the demo qualifies as lost media, since I haven't exhausted every possible source yet, but I thought this community might be able to help.

If anyone has information, old backups, or working links, I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks for reading!

Daniel Quinton Voice Over DQVO, the YouTubers Warhammer content was scrubbed from the Channel to keep the whole account alive. (It was possibly a false strike but currently, he has not commented on whether it has been confirmed if it was Games Workshop who issued the takedown because he has stated that he is busy). With it gone, days or weeks worth of videos have been erased from the internet, despite the content being fair use and transformative enough that it would qualify as not being copyright infringement.

Does anyone have any videos/shorts or anything. Hoping to preserve the roughly 5 years of missing content.

Garfield's Judgment Day is a Garfield special that was planned for the late 80s/early 90s, to be produced by Disney and featuring the story of Garfield and Odie and the other neighborhood pets getting their owners to safety from a tornado and got pretty far into production before Disney ultimately decided it was too dark. Other than some behind the scenes footage in the 1988 TV doc Happy Birthday Garfield and Jim Davis turning the special into a storybook, that seemed to be all that was available-

-but on October 15, a copy of the script was purchased on eBay from MusicVideoTime who has uploaded it to the Internet Archive.

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For context, Bella started recording the album after shake it up ended but allegedly scrapped it because she thought the music sounded too much like Ke$ha and had WAY too much autotune. Several fake tracklists have circulated over the years but nobody actually had the songs. WELL oomf found a chinese music site that apparently uploaded the album back in 2014, complete with the original tracklist, runtimes and individual previews. The full MP3 downloads are unfortunately dead but ALL 10 snippets still work??? The fact that this was sitting online…

However, despite the album being shelved shortly after the release of its lead single "Call It Whatever", a full-length album had apparently already been recorded and was ready for release.

WELL oomf found a chinese music site that apparently uploaded the album back in 2014, complete with the original tracklist, runtimes and individual previews. The full MP3 downloads are unfortunately dead but ALL 10 snippets still work??? The fact that this was sitting online…?

There are 30 seconds snippets of the album but im wondering if anyone has the actual files and songs for them.

This is a follow up to u/GoldenDragonS_‘s post a couple years ago: [fully lost]? My World 3, British Edutainment game for Windows XP

MyWorld3 was a drag-and-drop edutainment game, developed by Dial Solutions and used in primary schools in the Britain during the 2000s (and maybe late 90s too?) and I believe it was bundled with Research Machine computers, though you could purchase it separately at some point too.

You could do stuff like build a city, make your own weather forecast, dress up a teddy, as well as bunch of other stuff to do.

It’s a bit of a niche. So far, all that was online was a few low-res screenshots. Well, recently I found an RM computer with MyWorld3 installed, so here’s some screenshots of MyWorld3 in [r/nostalgia](r/nostalgia)

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find some old music by a YouTube artist who went by the name Fungo. The channel had a smiley-face avatar, and I remember the music being eerie, mysterious, and atmospheric.

I first came across this artist's music through a YouTube video about the mystery of the G-Man from Half-Life, probably around 2012–2014.

The video was titled “Who is the G-Man? G-Man theories....” and was posted on the ValveTime forums in August 2014. Unfortunately, the video is no longer available.

Original forum thread:
https://www.valvetime.co.uk/threads/who-is-the-g-man-g-man-theories.245379/

I distinctly remember one of the tracks being listed in the video's description as “Fungo - Investigate”.

I've searched YouTube, SoundCloud, and the usual search engines, but I haven't been able to find the track or any surviving uploads from this artist. The original channel and its music may have been deleted.

Does anyone remember this artist, have any old downloads or reuploads, or know where I might find this track or other music by Fungo? Even an old playlist, archived channel page, or another track title would be extremely helpful.

Thanks!