Lost media has always captured many people's attention online, either from the fascinating origins of an old media forgotten by time or the weird circumstances that led to it being rediscovered.
Several of this year's top contenders are by no means an exception.
Many of these "found" lost media have since been archived on YouTube, Reddit's r/lostmedia, and the Internet Archive for safekeeping.
Everyone Knows That/Ulterior Motives
The search for the origins of the song "Everyone Knows That," more commonly known as "Ulterior Motives," first began when user carl92 uploaded a 17-second audio clip to WatZatSong to ask for help to identify the song.
With a track reminiscent of 80s pop music, the song quickly gained wide attention on social media, primarily on TikTok and YouTube, as people searched and speculated the origins of the song.
Three years later, after much rigorous search and discussions, the origin of the song was found in a most unexpected place.
Reddit user u/One-Truth-5867 of the r/everyoneknowsthat has officially found the source of the audio clip: a 1986 adult film titled, "Angel of Passion."
The internet sleuths have even found the original composers of the song, Christopher Saint Booth and Philip Adrian Booth, and are currently contacting them to see if they still have a full copy of the song.
It would be no surprise if a completely clean version of "Everyone Knows That" is released somewhere soon.
Unproduced Seinfeld Episode
The 1989 American comedy series "Seinfeld" has been notorious among lost media communities for the difficulty in finding its unreleased and unproduced episodes.
Among those was an episode simply titled "The Bet," an unproduced episode in 1991, labeled by many lost media seekers to be fully unhinged and "edgy."
There is no question that the episode was real as evidenced by several articles talking about the controversial content in the script that made many actors of the series refuse to film it.
The script of the episode was already available on eBay since October 2023 but recently became available online after user u/hbo_got bought a copy last March and uploaded a copy to the Internet Archive.
Unreleased Disney TV Pilots
Disney and many other children's TV studios have been known for airing pilot episodes of their new shows to test out how well-received it is by the audience before making it a full-fledged TV series.
Despite the importance of these episodes, many have been sadly lost in time as their creators lost their copies of the pilot, or the studio holding them has already deleted the archive.
However, just last week, user u/SpaceFluttershy of r/lostmedia posted a directory of multiple pilot episodes of many well-known Disney shows, including "Kick Buttowski," "Fish Hooks," and "Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja Pilot."
Many of these episodes are currently available on YouTube.
The Boondocks Unaired 2004 Fox Pilot Episode
Before it became a classic Adult Swim cartoon, "The Boondocks" was among the list of pilot episodes supposedly set to release on Fox TV in 2004.
Unfortunately, the pilot was never aired due to the controversial content of the episode that even producers from Fox thought would be unsuitable for many adult viewers.
Fast forward 20 years, YouTuber The Storyteller uploaded the unaired pilot episode on Internet Archive out of nowhere, allowing people to finally get a glimpse of the series' humble beginnings.
Coyote Vs. Acme
The plot of the supposed battle between John Cena and "Looney Tunes'" Wile E. Coyote in the live-action/animated hybrid film "Coyote vs. Acme" was originally thought to never grace the public.
Despite being already completed, Warner Bros Discovery moved the release date of the film to "unscheduled" last year and later suspended the project indefinitely last November, causing speculations that the film might have been supposedly scrapped as a "tax write-off."
Many fans of the film have thought it would be a lost media until a Pastebin link suddenly spread online last March leaking all the major plot points of the film.
The link did not reveal the identity of the leaker but certain points noted in the leak coincide with earlier previews and insider talks about the film, proving to many that it is the actual plot of the supposed lost media.
A recent report from The New York Times, however, lights a little hope for the film. A Warner Bros. spokesperson claimed that the company currently has no intentions of locking the film in the vault.
It remains uncertain if the film will get released in theaters or on streaming platforms but people now have something to look forward to if an announcement regarding the film is made soon.
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