The 5 Biggest Searches in Lost Media

Oh hi there!
Here are the 5 five searches in Lost Media that I think are the biggest the community have ever seen. Let me know if you think there are any other searches even bigger than my top 5.
Twitter: lo...
Team Saki:
Instagram: www.instagram....
KZbin: • Saki Sanobashi TEAM SA...
Videos by Blameitonjorge and Whang! that take deep dives into these searches:
Clock Man: • The Search For Clockma...
Crack Master: • The Bizarre Search For...
A Day With SpongeBob SquarePants: • The Search For A Day W...
Saki Sanobashi: • The Lost Deep Web Anim...

[@tomysshadow]

"I found it on the dark web" is the new "my uncle works at Nintendo"

[@TheFernandinho]

My uncle works at the dark web

[@mikec.8604]

@@TheFernandinho my father works for nintendo into the dark web ... lol jk

[@ISPwarrior]

A Day With SpongeBob Squarepants is surely just a money laundering scheme

[@heneedsloveoooh]

i feel the need to make it real. shall animate it maybe

[@roxassora2706]

It was a way to make money. Not laundering

[@ISPwarrior]

@@roxassora2706 I mean it could be. But I highly doubt the people surrounding it would be so hostile and secretive if it wasn't shady. And laundering would explain why they got so much money from so few donators

[@roxassora2706]

@@ISPwarrior Dude, it was. The creator said in an interview with another person, that it was just something to make a quick buck

[@ISPwarrior]

@@roxassora2706 that's assuming they're not lying ¯\_(ツ)_/ But I don't know. I'm just saying the impression I got

[@warriorseamonkey1693]

i love how clockman was thought to be scary but the actual short is just wholesome and fun.

[@njww13]

True! Kids get scared by random stuff I think and by the time their older they probably remember things as way more creepy than they really were

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

Same with Cracks.

[@warriorseamonkey1693]

@@YuukiTakemoto1996 i actually found cracks pretty unsettling :/

[@Account_Not_Applicable]

@@8Kazuja8 that's what Attack of the Giant Vulture was to me. I remember it being so dark and frightening as a kid, and I think I only saw it a few times. Funny enough, that too was lost media for the longest time until I think 2013

[@TheHeartofland]

Kids usually get scared from normal things and then memories betray you. From several lost media commercials in my country, once found, they’re nowhere as “creepy” as explained

[@ice-choco-Icecream]

I swear Go For A Punch is the one that bothers me the most because it actually sounds interesting, and its the most likely to be made-up

[@AllThingsLost]

I know, it sounds so cool. I'm really hoping Team Saki can make it happen.

[@randomhistorian2417]

It is

[@NolanCrossing]

Maybe the real “Go For a Punch” was the friends we made along the way

[@user-mj6zg8hh9h]

The biggest reason for Go For a Punch being fake is that there isn’t a single piece of evidence coming straight from Japan.

[@randomhistorian2417]

@@NolanCrossing it was bro😭😭

[@HarveyMidnight]

I distinctly recall that 'Cracks" video, from Sesame Street, when I was a kid. I never thought it was scary--- in fact, I loved the idea of the cracks forming into imaginary animals... so much so, that I even asked my Mom if I could put cracks on my bedroom walls if I hit them with a hammer.

[@MxCheefah]

@@ginxxxxx Oddly conspiratorial.

[@CreativeCreatorCreates]

I remember it too. I liked it as well. There’s a lot of creepy stuff in older kids shows.

[@lljw7151]

@@ginxxxxx lol who cares

[@ProfessorYaoiI]

@@ginxxxxx lol fuck the law, there's no real reason to keep it secret. also, the middle east has laws they're just shit ones and also a huge chunk of the mid east's problems are because of the US. what.

[@ScoliosisKing1]

@@ProfessorYaoiI what did they say in the first place

[@PeterGriffin11]

The funny thing about some lost or rare media is the fact that if it wasn’t lost or rare to begin with most people probably wouldn’t care about it in the first place for example The Mean Girls DS game or A Day With Spongebob SquarePants.

[@PeterGriffin11]

@Prayingmantis 211 I doubted anyone in that movie would care about that game.

[@purrinpawz]

Well yeah but I think that's also what makes it interesting in a odd way

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

I know if Toonami: Trapped in Hyperspace wasn't lost, I would still care about it. It's how I got my kink for New Zealander accents (Swayzak) and endo (you going inside TOM in the final stage.)

[@Lux_Aeterna04]

Yoooo it’s Stan Smith from 20th century era btw the CIA has been disbanded after the Creation of humanity’s government the UNDF in the year 2097 right now it is the year 2437 humanity’s under a galactic civil war against the Insurgency of Confederate Systems

[@Fractorification]

We humans are curious creature, and whenever a mystery is presented, as innocuous as the source may be, we crave to find out everything about it. Sometime it gives you a glimpse of some alternate reality of what could've been, a possibility that might not affect the world in the long run, but different enough to garner your attention to think "what if?"

[@Trillyana]

I really hate that feeling of being the only person who remembers something when you remember it so vividly that there's no way it wasn't real. I had that happen with a board game I remembered from my childhood where I could distinctly remember the art style, some of the art, the green button you pressed to roll an electronic die, etc. Thankfully for the sake of my sanity I managed to find it one day in my house. But none of my 3 siblings remembered it existing, and it made me feel crazy.

[@cauapereira1019]

Whats It called???

[@Trillyana]

@Something Studios It was something called "Giant Game Board Book" that contained 6 games within

[@Trillyana]

@@cauapereira1019 It was something called "Giant Game Board Book" that contained 6 games within

[@mrcritical6751]

Yeah I hate remembering something just vividly enough that you can recall certain stuff but can’t remember the name or anything, it’s made worse when you’re the only one that remembers it. I have that with this weird TV movie that aired on CBBC once around Christmas during my childhood that I frequently trail off trying to recall. It was about a family consisting of a kinda stupid and impulsive mother and her two daughters one being around 5 and the other being older and done with her mothers shit having to secretly live in a shop after their house burns down. I don’t remember the title except that I’m certain it began with an S and was the name of a security guard character in the movie who never smiled and the family were always trying to avoid, I remember there was a scene where the daughter had to do a nativity play at school and because her mother forgot to get her a costume for playing an Angel she ended up giving her a bee costume and she had to bullshit her way out of why she was a bee in the middle of the play and I remember it ended up ripping off Bad Santa as the movies climax was the family finding out the guys the shop hired to play Santa and his elf were thieves and they had to stop them from robbing the place on Christmas Eve

[@dekudude8888]

I remembered an old Wii game called Boom Blox and neither of my sisters believed me until I found old let's plays of it on KZbin

[@ViviDotArchive]

“Until 4Chan got involved” is a sentence that can break universes

[@Thunderchicken69]

Oh hey I saw the crack master at the gas station earlier, he was trying to fight the store clerk for stopping him from attempting to steal a propane gas bottle.

[@kleck3846]

Lmao

[@KentuckyFriedChildren]

Cocaine is a Helluva drug

[@ShortFuseFighting]

Hank Hill : laser eyes

[@Anestheticcritera]

PLEASE-

[@feetuber9162]

Oh did you see your uncle

[@mightyfilm]

The thing I love about the Clockman and Crackmaster searches is that they were remembered by those who were little kids at the time they saw them and were clearly spooked by those cartoons, so we wound up getting descriptions of the shorts warped by memories of being freaked out by them when they were kids. That way, when we finally found them, they turned out to be so much more mild than our imaginations filled in. Though, the Sally cartoon does look pretty damn freaky, but for different reasons. Hell, some of us found the "Evil Wizard" to be pretty chill and Sally to be a spoiled freaking brat that deserved what she got.

[@abdelali9279]

For some reason I feel that one day with spongebob is scarier than go for a punch, shit feels like some kind of money laundering scheme or other kind of scam and that people can get injured or worse for getting their nose stuck into it, or something.

[@mistertagomago7974]

Definitely agree. Something about it at least makes me uncomfortable. Go for a punch really doesnt sound that out of the norm compared to a lot of older hyper violent anime.

[@goalhorncrazy9779]

I always liked the smaller searches, like ones with only a few people. It shows a small group dedication to a search. Also, I think an interesting video would be on wrestling lost media, since there's a bunch of interesting (and tragic) lost media involved with wrestling.

[@misseselise3864]

what’s the massive difference between a small group dedication and a larger group dedication?

[@RC--ji2ov]

@@misseselise3864 im guessing a tighter knit community, more dedicated people, etc

[@joshhale9355]

Oh man, wrestling lost media is crazy. It’s rabbit holes leading to rabbit holes and so on.

[@joshhale9355]

@@misseselise3864 you get a lot more niche topics, stuff you wouldn’t have even thought about being lost.

[@goalhorncrazy9779]

@@joshhale9355 there’s a ton of stuff no one talks about either. Like in 1998, during Halloween Havoc the live feed cut off before the last match, the footage of the last match is found but footage of the live cut off is lost

[@Goobenvy]

I can’t describe how much I love the all the detail in the thumbnail.

[@AllThingsLost]

That's funny you say that. Molly, my wife, usually makes the thumbnails and she adds a ton of detail. I always tell her no one is going to notice, but after reading your comment, I guess I'm wrong.

[@Goobenvy]

@@AllThingsLost Yeah, seeing the new thumbnails along with the new videos is always nice.

[@Weeze24]

A Day With Spongebob was and still is one of my favorite searches in all of lost media.

[@skeeballz]

yeah it's definitely one of my faves too, especially considering it's part of what made me gravitate towards lost media research.

[@ИванБирюк-о9ж]

Out of all of them, it is probably THE search.

[@De19thKingJulion]

I like to think we'll find pink morning cartoon one day too.

[@lollotheguy]

@@De19thKingJulion no man, not that, that shit's fucking scary man

[@Worldomafe]

@@De19thKingJulionFun fact about me : I was somewhat in the search of the pink morning cartoon but I gave up when I heard the clock master because The story of Clock master was more mysterious to me so I gave up on the pink morning cartoon but here the pink morning cartoon kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6TTdnxuhrRlfK8

[@conduite6721]

The lost media community always makes me impressed

[@iswearimnotafurry4953]

Unfortunately I pretty firmly believe Saki Sanobashi is fake. It’s literally a 4-Chan creepypasta

[@alexiskuwata]

But the OP was proven to be a troll.

[@karina_martinez420]

@@HeyJinx supposedly he went on reddit and said he was a troll but no idea if that was actually him or not

[@TheWoostergirl]

It's still a great story and even if it is fake people had fun while looking for it.

[@andrewflor8002]

I agree.

[@RoBEEFnik]

"We do a little trolling"

[@spectrumdrift7005]

This guy could literally be talking about the most disturbing things on the internet and still say “Oh hi there!” in the happiest way possible

[@ducknotfound]

Day 1: Of Asking All Things Lost to do a Video About 10 Pieces of Lost Art

[@AllThingsLost]

Lost art is something I've wanted to do for a long time. It will definitely happen.

[@ducknotfound]

@@AllThingsLost Glad to know that :D

[@societyofcriminals]

@@AllThingsLost can you do 10 pieces of lost LEGO media and lost Nintendo media

[@StarBoyMyio]

@@societyofcriminals that would be a good idea for a lost LEGO sets video.

[@MonochromeTrouble]

Man, Reddit will give awards to anything.

[@jacobcrozier]

yep

[@travistreadway3180]

Literally will go on a subreddit for fights and find comments with awards clowning people being beat up while down reddit is scummy

[@lamebright]

On the r/sakisanobashi someone posted “saki sanobashi deez nuts” and they got a lot of awards

[@MonochromeTrouble]

@@lamebright That doesn't even make sense!

[@iswearimnotafurry4953]

I don’t use Reddit, but sometimes I’ll just scroll through Subreddits on my favorite games or shows, like Sims or Pokémon, then an add will come up with like 15 awards. Why tf would you waste awards on ADS??

[@ryanleatigaga7596]

Even though the OP said he made Saki Sanobashi up, I still respect them for leading 4Chan to search for and eventually recreate something that might not even exist.

[@TheDigitalApple]

4chan is easily one of the best places to solve mysteries IMO.

[@alexiskuwata]

He was proven to be a troll. So he's not really the OP.

[@San-li9ml]

@@alexiskuwata Proof?

[@redmage5251]

@@alexiskuwata there's just as much evidence that it was the op

[@LLAWLIETkiracatcher]

@@San-li9ml you could get a lot of videos as a proof just search it on yt

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

I have a theory for Go For a Punch; While there is still speculation on whether or not it is real, a lot of clues from both the original post and the 'confession' post has made me think that the original poster was playing around BUT their inspo was based on real series. The title 'Go for a Punch' calls to the original title of Gunbuster which original Japanese title is translated to 'Aim for the Top!'. The over the top gore, old animation style also brings to mind 'The Curse of Kazuo Umezu' (which you showed in the video) which had a story about several girls ending up trapped in a haunted house only to be dismembered by the spirit inside as well as their own friend. It's POSSIBLE that Saki Sanobashi was a creation based on a combination of many old school and influential anime series but to seem more 'deep web' the creator pulled out the most familiar aspects of them and used them where they felt it sounded the best.

[@thatgamingcapybara]

Cuz their whose clues lost clues

[@cereal9267]

This might seem like an odd concept, but could you do a video on lost media prevention, or the ways people preserve media?

[@AllThingsLost]

I really love that idea. It would give me an excuse to talk to Dycaite, and other Lost Media veterans.

[@SDChargers93]

@@AllThingsLost can you do tutorials on how to back up CDs or Preserve Games ?

[@almightybree2779]

Download them shits

[@sharot28]

Man that thumbnail is a piece of art

[@AllThingsLost]

Thanks. Molly, my wife, makes the thumbnails and I always tell her no one is going to notice all the little details she puts in them. Sounds like I was totally wrong.

[@MacrossSD]

One thing to remember re: Doctor Who is that the destruction of old episodes was not just the BBC being shortsighted jerks. Per older agreements with the actors' and other talent and behind-the-scenes technician unions, they were limited to a specific number of re-runs of a recorded broadcast, after which they had to get everybody back in to redo the show from scratch. That meant that after the allowed number of reruns was used up, the Beeb really did have a useless brick taking up space from their viewpoint. Fortunately, those agreements were revised and the junking policy was able to be stopped.

[@specter1586]

It genuinely warmed my heart to hear that your wife helps with your videos, providing narration and creating thumbnails (the last point being something I read in another comment).

[@alexandercolefield9523]

I am really glad you included Dr. Who in here, its not obscure at all, but it is a massive loss of immensely popular media.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

The Clockman and Cracks were so satisfying to finally see again. I grew up watching Pinwheel in the 80s and I always half remembered it, and it's great to see people working to find and archive things like this.

[@toongamer2810]

Did clockman scare you?

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

@@toongamer2810 not that I can recall. I had a big storybook with pictures done in a very similar art style (I think the artist was Czech) and I loved that. I wish I knew where that book was actually.

[@toongamer2810]

@@CinnamonGrrlErin1 I just found out about this around a year ago. Clockman is terrifying to me. The way he comes up the stairs and steals the girl, how uncanny the girl looks, and how he comes out of the clock. It made me fear clocks for awhile, not to mention his scary appearance. Also nice Jane profile picture

[@danim8893]

A Day with Spongebob Squarepants is what got me into lost media! I now frequently research lost media as a hobby!

[@studogable]

Surprised this did not include London After Midnight. That movie is the great white whale for a LOT of horror fans.

[@cpaliulis]

I find it absolutely fascinating to hear that pinwheel is such a massively lost show. When I was a kid, pinwheel was broadcast a lot. I mean A LOT. It was always on whenever I was home sick from school. and since my living room TV was constantly tuned to Nickelodeon whenever I was home, I saw a shit ton of pinwheel. I even recorded a whole tape of it once in slp, but I unfortunately later recorded over it for a TV broadcast of back to the Future in sp. So sadly that recording is gone.

[@jorymo4964]

I'm not sure if it exactly counts as lost media, but I'm really interested in The Most Mysterious Song On the Internet. The full song is apparently found, but nobody knows who made it. Whang has a good series of videos describing the search so far.

[@tomysshadow]

It's what the Lost Media Wiki would classify as unidentified media - not lost media, although they're often conflated.

[@jesseblack5812]

we've gotten to the fact it was someone involved witg Statues in Motion :)

[@TheOverachiever7]

I love the search behind the Doctor Who episodes. It’s fascinating seeing the different ways they’re getting their content back. I also feel Saki Sanobashi will lead to nothing. At this point, it made a very fun internet mystery to follow but that’s about it. I’d LOVE to be proven wrong, however.

[@CaioMribeiro95]

There is a mexican tv show called 'El chavo del ocho' (Roughly translate to 'the boy from the 8th'). It's a show about the shennaningans of a 8 year old (played by a man in his 70's) homeless boy who lives in a village. It EXPLODED here in Brazil, wich was still on air until last year, making it stay 49 years on air, non-stop. It's loved by everyone of all ages here, and it's incredibly funny. It's notorious for it's remakes (They had maybe 4, 5 versions of some episodes, sometimes with different characters) and it's lost episodes. It's worth checking it out.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Chavo also has an animated tv series as well. Its first season was dubbed into English by 4Kids Actors.

[@DaYoda191]

I always am skeptical of lost media that no one else seems to remember. So Saki Sanobashi is probably fake, and the explanation of why it's fake seems perfectly reasonable. My day with Spongebob also seems fishy to me. Why would anyone allegedly involved be so hostile or unwilling to talk about it? Seems like an unlikely response to such an inquiry. The doctor who episodes intrigue me the most as they were destroyed by the BBC themselves for a show they still make and has a huge cult following. I really hope most of those tapes are one day found!

[@DirtyNeuronXIII]

I remember that "Cracks" short. I'm pretty sure I saw it being played on Sesame Street in Mexico around 1993 - 1995. I completely forgot about it but now I remember having watched it when I was around 4yo.

[@carmacharmella27]

You sound a lot like LSuperSonic Q, and that’s a compliment because he’s one of my favorite lost media youtubers.

[@AllThingsLost]

Thanks, I love his videos. He was one of the reasons I got into Lost Media.

[@carmacharmella27]

@@AllThingsLost you’re very welcome.

[@nostalgicumbry3279]

you sound so hype in this, really shows ur passion

[@mayabradley4950]

Right, I can’t stand when the narrators of these videos sound uninterested.

[@jemmytaveras]

Its funny but, I remember seeing the "Cracks" short in the late 90s early 00 when I was growing up in "Plaza Sesamo" which is the Spanish version of "Sesame Street" heck when I fist saw it in one of your videos I was like "Wait a minute, I know this short" and it brought back a lot of fun memories of me watching it when I was a kid. Also, about the missing 93 Doctor Who Episodes, I have a theory that they might be copies here in the Dominican Republic of some of those Doctor Who episodes, probably rotting away in a library of the few channels we had back in the 60s

[@x.owls_4182]

I have never done or participated in one of this researches, but i bet it feels just like when you loose a small eraser in school in a classroom with white dirty floor... You just stand there... Looking... And hoping you can see it... I miss my eraser...

[@ImSquiggs]

Do we know the name of the BBC employee that intentionally destroyed all that media? I've been making myself custom t-shirts lately and I'd really like to get one that says SUCKS

[@thebestmedic1616]

Same I just wanna talk to his knee caps for a second

[@Bacony_Cakes]

I'm stealing a time machine and saving some lost media.

[@ImSquiggs]

@@Bacony_Cakes That makes me hope the guy that invents the time machine was inspired by Doctor Who and uses his inaugural mission to go save those tapes, haha. And get me that employees name for my shirt.

[@mrcritical6751]

But what if it’s a bootstrap paradox and by going back in time to save the tapes it ends up freaking that guy out and he decides to start wiping them so no more time travellers can come back to steal the tapes?

[@NepetasShippingWall1642]

@@mrcritical6751 fuck. i don't think any of us thought about that

[@Zach-td7jm]

Just wanted to say it’s so cool how new KZbinrs like you can still blow up

[@NoClueHonestly]

Mike, I love your lost media videos, and I'd love to have more videos like this where you tell a more detailed story of a hunt. I especially love those where the media is either found or there's some kind of conclusion to the story, I find them very satisfying!

[@CherylsProductions]

Lovely video as always! also, idea: 10 Pieces of Lost Media that Never Existed

[@ian2057]

"the crack master" made me laugh way too hard

[@outshinethemorningsun]

I spent so long with the search team for Clockman. I remember late nights translating shorts from French into English the week before we found the thing on KZbin. I definitely think that’s what blew the wiki up. It’s definitely creepy.

[@Dycaite]

Thank you for the kind words ^__^ Great video!

[@nostalgiamostalgia0319]

Can you help us find brainsurge episodes?

[@igniteaflame4336]

You're a legend

[@willbunnell889]

My Personal List: 6: Super Smash Bros Slamfest 99 5: Hitogata 4: Go For A Punch 3: Cracks 2: A Day With Spongebob Squarepants 1: Clockman

[@jewjewsbizarreadventure]

Hey man! I've been a long time viewer and an interesting idea I've been stewing on for a few days could be a series where viewers submit various lost media that may not be well known enough to warrant a full video. I can think of many things that would be considered lost media but can't seem to get a good search going. Having a series where viewers can submit lost media they're aware of but haven't been given the spotlight seems like a fun way to both bring more attention to lost media as a while and even help the search of said submitted lost media

[@LuxxyOfficial]

15:23 the picture on the left bottom right corner, under the spongebob with his hands in the air looks like a good watch lmao.

[@jess648]

No joke I remember watching a episode of Sesame Street with Cracks in it when I was little. I remember thinking the short was really cool

[@jess648]

@@raftyfins I dunno it probably aired as a short separate from Sesame Street on PBS or something

[@Littlebitofeverything-l2z]

Cool!

[@AndrewGarland]

I think it would be cool if you talked about old Roblox clients sometime. The oldest one we have is from March 2007, and it was literally discovered a few days ago when I’m writing this. Anything from the earlier days is pretty much lost.

[@darkjapan]

Hito Gata 人 形 means human shape. It's a supposed commercial about the dangers of railway crossings. The text on screen at 0:38 reads "On earth, every two seconds somebody dies". If you search 踏み切りヒトガタ you will find information in Japanese. This is in my wheel house and I can read Japanese so I suppose I should make a video about it.

[@CreativeCreatorCreates]

I’ve subscribed. It seems a lot of lost media is from other countries which makes it that much harder to locate.

[@totoro5874]

Without watching I shall predict all 5 1. Clockman 2. Cracks 3. A Day with Spongebob Squarepants 4. Doctor Who Lost Episodes 5. Cry Baby Lane

[@ImSquiggs]

4. The rest of Mcu Fanboy2008's comment EDIT: It was only finished up to line 3 when I wrote this :P

[@totoro5874]

@@ImSquiggsYeah I accidently uploaded the comment so I had to go back and do number 4 and 5

[@ducknotfound]

@@totoro5874 Looks like You got Number 5 Wrong >:D

[@totoro5874]

@@ducknotfound Sadly yes, but I got the rest correct, hooray 🥳

[@specter1586]

What’s Cry Baby Lane? I’ve heard of the other 4, but not that.

[@electrocast]

what is it with people that find lost media sending it to collectors anonymously. it's like they think they're a mysterious anime loner badass guy.

[@tigerlillystar6143]

The day with Spongebob one always trips me up because I remember watching a commercial for it on nick.

[@user-jl7cz2pe6d]

I don't even get the point of destroying master tapes. Like what do you even get from doing that??

[@user-jl7cz2pe6d]

@@killiankeane7259 Okay. That actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks.

[@StrykerMagnum]

A very big part of me wants to create things like these and then bury them, so to speak. Upload screenshots to be found, partial clips, download links... Just for there to be more fun to be had for future sleuths. I suppose that would just be an ARG-lite then, haha.

[@mgrdigimarketing3035]

I remember watching the clockman as a smaller person, freaky as hell at the time.

[@jozajab6849]

I’m surprised that the “farming game where you kill your wife” isn’t on here

[@LyricNear]

Thank you for getting me interested in lost media along with all the other channels who made me aware of the community! I've been involved in finding and archiving obscure musicals even before I really knew how many people were invested in lost media, and now I've joined the effort to revive the partially-found cancelled Broadway musical Rag Dolly!

[@darkdoubloontv8906]

I'm really glad Go for a Punch doesn't exist. Based on only the description, it really disturbed me and made me super anxious and depressed man.

[@granddad19921]

You should do "Lost Chuck E. Cheese's/Pizza Time Theatre Showtapes and Showtape Segments"

[@anyone4789]

anyone else get really happy when this channel uploads?

[@Link24a]

saki sanobashi is certainly fake. whether the redditor is the actual op or not, they say exactly whats sus about the original post what people tend to neglect, however, is that 2d animation is almost impossible to do on such a small scale such as that, and that this was made in japan. tradtional 2d animation is probably the most expensive/time consuming projects and even a small ova is hard to make as an independent studio, it's not like a game, live action film, or even a comic where indie groups make them all the time the fact that this is japanese makes it even more sus. why would the only presence of it being seen be in subbed form? why is there 0 record of it from japanese sources? the "go for a punch" name makes no sense on all fronts, especially because the op seemed to have no issue understanding the content of the subs. why would the title have a wack translation but fine subs? the title being weird also wouldve implied, like the reddit post, the op was going for that botched over-adaptive dubbing style that early anime often had. considering that, why wouldnt it have been a dub, then? effectively: HOW would an indie studio make something of this quality WHY did it not show up anywhere in japan WHO would sub this with inconsistent adaptation ideas. if it were a company, they wouldve dubbed it. if it were just a random person, i honestly dont think any regular person had that technology in the 80s. "oh they couldve done in later" then WHY the dated title WHY is on the dark web in an english speaking area and nowhere else either way, i wish the best for the recreation projects (though their slowing down is likely a result of the same reason the original doesnt exist: 2d animation is extremely rough) i really wish saki were real, but it just makes no sense for it to exist

[@sorcerersapprentice]

While I agree that it's totally fake, there are some logical explanations for the things you brought up. Back in the 80s, when the poster claimed it was made, Japan had an economic boom, so plenty of smaller OVAs that were never broadcast were just put on VHS. (So think direct to video DVDs.) Many of these were lost to time. Due to them not needing to adhere to TV broadcast standards, they can also be quite dark and bloody. Think along the lines of Devilman: Crybaby, if you ever heard of that anime. Like I said, I think this one is fake, because why would it have a an official subbed version and show up on the dark web instead of the surface web? But at the same time, the idea of something like this isn't super far fetched. Many similar lost OVAs from that time period could be floating around out there. I wish for the best for the recreation projects, because it would be cool to see what that idea would be like.

[@Link24a]

@@sorcerersapprentice i guess what i meant is that back then small OVAs could be pumped out by a studio BUT they would have been actually had some sort of record, like small advertisements/inventory/ANY kind of promo op seemed to act like it was a TINY project that went under the radar like most creepypastas where someone encounters a one-of-a-kind piece of media, which while is possible for other mediums, would never be possible for traditional 2d animation where something of that quality would have had to have been advertised somewhere. could one random guy hack a pokemon cartridge and throw it up on ebay? theoretically absolutely either youd have tiny project that was 5 minutes AND looked like shit or big project that looked like good AND would be easily verifiable at least somewhere. not a mix

[@sorcerersapprentice]

@@Link24a Okay, I can see your point at more. I agree. That does sound rather sus.

[@frankd8339]

I think the Cracks secrecy was all a ploy for someone's own entertainment. I definitely believe the anonymous figure who sent the tape and made the contract up was laughing it up, and he probably found the VHS in his basement because his mom recorded hours of Sesame Street or something. Being able to tease the guy who sought after it and start an internet firestorm was probably the best kind of fun, and basically immortalized the lost media search. As for the production mysteries, there have been so many lost episodes of different variety shows (like Sesame Street) at this point that I'm not surprised production was weird and rushed. It could have very well been made by a bunch of nobodies, or the people who have been contacted are just playing it up for some extra hype. All in all, amazing video and awesome searches.

[@doitallYT]

First time viewer, immediate subscriber. I absolutely love what you're doing with this video, I'm a bit of a lost media addict. I'll be keeping an eye out for any lost video game videos! ✌️😎

[@thrillshun480]

I'm glad you liked my Saki Sanobashi intro to use in your video! Keep up the good work!

[@zoroarkissueregion]

Idea: Lost media that may not exist

[@placeholder7410]

Jorge did that.

[@uhmuh7484]

Saki

[@JZJ7777]

That’s certainly an interesting concept. One that’s definitely been covered, no doubt.

[@shoresean1237]

One time on a forum, we were discussing the once-plethora of cartoons based on live-action shows. They used to be legion, and some of them were fairly out there from the premise of the shows they were based on. So as a joke, I made one up called 'Mary's Major Mysteries', a cartoon based on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' since the MTM family of shows seemed like the only ones not to get an adaptation or some sort of parody. My premise was, Mary and the cast were teen journalism students being driven around in Lou Grant's journalism school-bus-school, searching for 'Scoops', which at least once Lou denounced on the actual show, feeling that 'scoops' was something the Daily Planet got on the old George Reeves show. I even told a story of how Mary's divorce from Grant Tinker tied up the rights as to why it was never rerun or seen again. I think people caught on in three to five days. I now wonder if my details either weren't thorough enough or vague enough so that people filled in the gaps. If 'Go For A Punch' was real, I could see it existing. Thanks for posting this.

[@Pataganja]

Finally a new video from you bruh you gotta upload more you the only good lost media channel. Please do lost movie scenes.

[@AllThingsLost]

Thanks, I've been trying to release a video every other Tuesday. Lost deleted scenes is in the works!

[@Bulldoxide]

The master tapes for Megadeth's album "Countdown To Extinction" ("The Symphony of Destruction" album) were lost for a couple of decades because when they were recorded Lead Guitarist Marty Friedman labeled all the tape cases in Japanese and everyone forgot. They were only found because Bassist David Ellefson remembered it about 20 years later after Dave Mustaine called him to see if he knew where they were.

[@alecopedia5744]

Damn, Cracks went from Lost Media to reverse Lost Media. We HAVE the footage, but we have no idea how or who made it besides knowing it was a sesame street cartoon.

[@nyashacarter7065]

Love your videos Mike!

[@AllThingsLost]

Thank You!

[@Trekapedia]

The Doctor Who lost footage story still makes me mad. I can’t believe some jerk intentionally destroyed the footage. I’m glad they’re finding some but still, what a horrible thing for someone to do.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

"Go away, there ain't no 'A Day With Spongebob Squarepants' and there never was!"

[@k-berry8771]

Another incredibly high profile and bizarre search is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood We have artwork, commercials, merch, leaked clips, a teaser the public was never meant to see, everything BUT the movie itself

[@sacramentocheesehog9195]

The only lost media that's a true shame that is truly lost is a video I made for KZbin in 2007 when I was 13 and I deleted it in 08 it was called babushka, man what great content it was such a shame

[@izzatsufian2796]

Fun fact pinwheel is prototype version of nickelodeon.

[@greyofpta5305]

I'm stunned how many lost shows people are losing their minds to find, I saw repeatedly as a kid.

[@PartnershipsForYou]

Makes you appreciate the fact that you had an experience that some could only dream for.

[@gwgwgwgwgwgwgwgwgw]

I'm sorry, but I can't stop laughing at the term "crack master" One could even say that it cracks me up

[@Crownie50]

you forgot one thing The Lost Macdonalds DS Game

[@alanmonteros6432]

I am pretty sure the church being a former BBC building was debunked ,which makes the mystery even more interesting because how the hell did the tapes end in that basement in the first place.

[@gtalalo09]

IDK if it is because I am playing Umineko and I have the whole WTC series on my mind RN but that "Go for a punch" stuff sounds like a Gore anime spoof just like the person claiming to be the OP said but the "Original" japanese name even sounds like something that could be the name of a Higurashi arc. Most if not all arcs in that end with "-ashi" (Onikakushi-hen, minagoroshi-hen, watanagashi-hen, etc) Sakisanobashi-hen might be the lost 9th episode that Ryukishi made some notes of but couldn't finish since he couldn't connect it to any other one like he likes to do and wasn't indeph enough to be made into a Console exclusive arc (Also Kai already had all the answers at the time before Gou and Sotsu). I'm just playing with an idea that popped into my head. Probably the person who made the post using the name "Go for a punch" just had an idea that there was a lot of fucked up shit in japanese media (Mostly OVAs) in the 80s and the other person gave it a WTC sounding title by accident.

[@Biotic1]

love your vids man, keep'em coming!

[@ClicClikBang]

13:36 nothing is beyond the hacker 4chan’s reach.

[@Mags_thatsme]

I love the cracks detail in telescope. Great job.

[@AllThingsLost]

Thanks. My wife, Molly, did the thumbnail. I told her no one would notice the cracks. I was definitely wrong.

[@Mags_thatsme]

@@AllThingsLost her work did not go unnoticed, you better tell her she did a very lovely job!

[@redlinrangerstudio5331]

#OhHiThere 0:00

[@gunraptor]

Some thoughts on Cracks: There's obviously some kind of need for secrecy beyond anything legal. Further, we have additional unsettling information such as the woman in all white with a name like "Sky." This, especially given the era it was made in, indicates the possibility of the creators being part of either (a) a cult or (b) a commune, with my money favoring the former. P. Imagination was likely just their front for the sake of interfacing with Children's Television Workshop, and the actual people behind the short are part of some other larger group. Hell....I could be wrong on the cult/commune part, and it could be that the artists were actually part of a government in some form, be it the US government (the "Jimi Hendrix is Morgan Freeman" theory comes to mind, with the CIA's supposed interest in entertainment) or a foreign government (some kind of KGB influence op to gain access to children's programming, and the cell members just stayed in the US post USSR-fall, hence the need for a low profile, and the use of a non-courier dead drop that was undetected on a rural farm?)....huh....that second theory isn't so bad, actually. Regardless of the creators being a cult, an alternative commune, a CIA psy-op or cultural op, or a KGB influence op, or something entirely different, I think one conclusion is clear: someone wanted us to have "Cracks" because they were proud of their work being appreciated even after so many years, but at the same time they are having to make pains to avoid too much getting out about it or its creators. This may be a time when it's best to just let sleeping dogs lie, because people might actually get hurt by digging too deep on this one. The Cold War was a very different time, and the survivors of the Cultural Revolution (or whatever you call the hippy drug craze with LSD etc) and the Cold War probably deserve to be left in peace, regardless of their side or what parts they played....they surely have families by now, and have left all of that life behind them. An additional thought: We *did* more or less have it confirmed that drugs had a part in this short falling into obscurity, I just noticed, so to me, that might be a little extra pointing towards it being made by a drug-friendly psychedelic-using commune. So...that's my two cents. Leave the creators be on this one, as they already did some minor cloak and dagger shit to get the short out to the public...it's wrong to ask more of them.

[@Kabra2012]

Lol, I remember seeing Cracks on TV3 in NZ when I was in my late-teens (sometime prior to 2012)

[@TheFakeJiddlerExperienceYT]

The devil shivers when a nice guy gets mad

[@ItsCosmoTewulf]

Objection, relevance?

[@AllThingsLost]

Petition: Put this line in Team Saki's Go For a Punch.

[@nicksullivan4994]

I’m still trying to find Nickelodeon’s “Nick-Bot Takes Over” Promo!❤️📺🎶

[@jamplays9596]

I feel like I saw a video with clock man clips in a video from 2015 or 2016 but I don’t remember the video name you never know seen it was on KZbin before it was fond

[@boxtenplush]

The fact the wizard pops up right when you say “Oh, hi there!”

[@owck3527]

I'm looking for eras of lost music. UK music especially from early to mid 00s. MSN, AIM song transfers of local bands, mcs, artists etc.. MySpace era and pirate radio sort of timelines. Pirate radio stations in UK are something you'd may enjoy reading about. They're still somewhat in use to this day, but nothing like the 60s and then again in 90s/00s. Rinse FM, Kiss FM, XFM all started as illegal broadcasting systems and were only broadcasted, rarely ever archived because it ended being classed as evidence if caught. Endless amount of hours of music that 95% of which will never be heard again in it's raw original form.

[@rileyswedelius-smith6360]

Been really enjoying your channel. I’m sure you’ve thought about covering the many, many lost films from the silent era, which is a daunting task, but if you’re ever interested, I think 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera would be a really interesting one. Much of it is missing, much of it isn’t, and the regularly seen version today is a mysterious frankenstein version that we still don’t know where it came from.

[@PromoCactus]

10/10 thumbnail 👌

[@the-NightStar]

"Clock Man" has what I think are two other stables of lost media that turns out to be found: People with poor memory of their own childhood and people who don't even understand what's scary and what isn't. Since "Clock Man" wasn't even any kind of clock man, and the short wasn't even remotely scary.

[@farpointgamingdirect]

Who made you the arbiter who determines exactly what is scary? Children can be easily frightened by things they dont understand. You need to get over yourself

[@Brianna-eo8nu]

You should do a video on lost puppetry/puppet shows next!

[@thepastcomesalive2082]

Oh my God! That Sesame Street film about the cracks in the wall aired just five days before I was born, I was born that same year 1977 on Valentine’s Day.