Due to this post I just found mine.

For the longest time I’ve been trying to find a video that featured someone copying a VHS recording over and over again, each time loosing a little bit of quality.

The specific video featured a catchy song, but I couldn’t remember the song or any of the words. I’ve found a few different videos over the years but every time I found a video the song was wrong.

Every few years it’s jumped into my head and I’ve gone off looking for it, but could never quite figure it out.

This time I either put in just the right terms or the magic algorithm has moved it around,

https://youtu.be/mES3CHEnVyI

We all have that one porn video.

There was a Tetris type game, with falling pieces you had to rotate and line up, but the pieces were men and women. When they fit together in sex positions, they moaned.

I was 14 and it was hilarious.

Sometime between 2005 and 2008, someone from explosm (the cyanide and happiness guys) did a thing in the forums where they’d draw a comic panel and the forum decided what happened next by voting in the thread. It’d go on for a few days, and by the end the stories were always wildly off the rails. They did it ~3 times. Sometime later, they lost all of their forums, which included these threads. I’ve always wondered if there’s an archive of those things somewhere. They were absolutely legendary.

One time in the early 2000s, I saw a commercial during Adult Swim on Cartoons Network and I’ve wanted to see it again ever since. It was for Virgin Mobile and it featured Ode to Joy or 1812 Overture plating over quick cuts of mundane objects which turn out to be innuendo… for body parts. I know it wasn’t delusion because I was at a friends house and also though it was epic.

Oh! I have one. And it’s actually very white.

Back on ebaumsworld circa 2003 there was this flash interactive thing. It wasn’t quite a game, it wasn’t quite a video because it required interaction to progress. It involved men in suits doing strange things. Boxing, one would yell into a bullhorn if you clicked on him, had a drum beat behind it, black and I think red line art on a white background.

Exactly the kind of thing search engines are bad at finding, and I’ve even looked on the wayback machine and no dice.

In the BBC news many years ago I remember Peter Sissons calling the reporter John Pienaar John Penis and then quickly correcting himself. None of my friends or family actually heard or acknowledged it. And for years i couldn’t find anything on the internet until recently I found this one radio clip.

At long last I have proof that I’m more observant than everyone else, not crazy. Although that being said, I did spend an unhealthy amount of time looking.

Anyone watched Dark, the Netflix Germany TV show? I swear the last scene had Lorde’s song as the background. But the last time I rewatched it, the song wasn’t there.

Edit:

So I remember coming across this basic webpage that was just a song playing on loop with an animation in the center.

The song was this weird electronic loop with samples on top: baby coos, a few lines from some female rapper, various bloopy sounds. It changed a bunch.

The animation looked like old 90s 3d web animations, very pixelated. The object would rock back and forth, and periodically changed into a different object: an old CRT monitor, a dolphin, just random stuff.

The whole thing had a very Windows 98 sorta vibe, I think the name looked like a file name. That was the whole thing though, just this animation and music loop.

It was maybe 15 years ago. The song was pretty catchy, so every once in a while I try to find it, but I can’t even begin to think of how to search this.

I had one for years that ended up being a Harry Nile radio drama I heard on a work site years ago

Like others, I actually managed to find it thanks to this thread by double-checking before posting.

It’s a sketch/short film(?) called A Reasonable Request. It will stick with you, if you watch it, I promise.

There used to be a parody of “The real Slim Shady” video about Mitt Romney. About 3 years ago I went searching for it to show my partner and it does not exist anymore. Copyright claimed into oblivion. Seems stupid, but I’d really like to watch it again.

I posted my comment on the original post with my other Lemmy account but I’m going to put it here too, just in case this post gets more traction.

There are a few things but I don’t think I can really talk about them here. So, I’ll just mention that there was this old browser game on Cartoon Network’s website that I remember playing when I was younger. It was based on Xiaolin Showdown and, while I don’t remember exactly what the gameplay was like, it was a fully 3D game and I think I remember it being a platformer. I have never been able to find this game or even any information about it existing, anywhere. I’ve even checked Bluemaxima’s Flashpoint and it’s not archived there either.

There’s a a conspiracy theory involving a relatively popular celebrity from the early 2000s and some guy in Brazil takes full credit for the entire conspiracy theory and says he made it up just to prove how easy it would be to do. He’s even credited in the wikipedia article for it.

I’ve seen proof that he’s wrong, I’ve had bookmarks that would show he wasn’t the originator of the theory, but all the forums and sources that would be able to prove him wrong are defunct and offline. The timeline doesn’t even make sense for it to have originated when he said he came up with it, but I can’t prove it. He was like 6 years late. Every once in awhile, I still go searching to see if I can find something old enough to prove it.

2 psa’s that ran on cable on the early 90’s.

Both had some dumb tag ling like “would you risk your life to save them?” Dramatic music and snap cuts.

One had a little girl in a petal car on a road with an oncomming semi truck.

The second was a toddler walking away from it’s mother into a busy city street with oncomming traffic, and the mother (who was trying to unlock her car) freaking out once she noticed the kid was missing.

These have to exist somewhere.