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.

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.

Two things:

An article about a blockade of kayaks that were in an Eastern US port preventing warships from leaving the country to go to the war in Iraq. It was spearheaded by Quakers and was part of the impetus the Bush admin wanted to use to charge Quakers as terrorists. Quakers are one of the few religious groups that are by default conscientious objectors and cannot be drafted into the military due to the non-violence aspects of their religion. I have been able to find evidence that the Bush admin was toying with prosecuting Quakers, but not this specific event.

An article about musicians suing their record company for money made from suing individuals for file sharing. The record companies always argued that the people doing music piracy were stealing from the musicians, but the musicians had to sue their record company to see a penny of that money.

All together I have literally spent days and days over the years trying to find these. I have a fairly good memory and everything else I remember from that period of time I have been able to dig to find the source. These two elude me and it kills me.

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.

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:

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.

There was a browser game I remember playing in ~2010 that was basically a zoo tycoon game where you unlocked new animals over time

Nostalgically, I wanted to play it a little while bac,k but I’m sure you can imagine why searching “browser zoo game” didn’t exactly help me much

Reading thru the comments and I’ve been reminded of a fan-made DnD 5e book that focused on a number of bdsm kinks, a lot of it relating to latex, so obviously NSFW, adding “races” like “headless body made of rubber”, “torso with legs”, “just the torso”, plus several magical items that were effectively other bdsm stuff, though I remember one of the items was a “limb portal”, which allowed you to attach to any one limb and separate it from the body. I don’t remember a single unique or almost unique name from the supplement.

The art was very furry-oriented and had plenty of black and white images - I recall one of them was of fully latex-bound adventurers aiming a bow, using only the legs/feet. This was probably released around 2016 as a free pdf

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.

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.

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’ve posted this on reddit back in the day, both on r/tipofmytongue and r/tipofmyjoystick.

There was a free indie game that I installed on my Windows PC back in the 2000s. I don’t know where I got it, but I don’t think it was Steam. The game was a 2D platformer where the main character was I think a red cat. I remember it being kind of fast paced, and you had a sword, and at one point can shoot lasers or something which played into the platforming (I think charging it and shooting it downwards gave you like a double jump? I’m not 100% sure if this is accurate).

I’ve tried so hard to find this game again, but time and time again I’ve come up empty.

Some more details, though it’s very foggy at this point:

• I think there was a level select screen, kinda similar to like Mario 3
• There is the typical friendly village level where you can talk to NPCs
• I think one level was on top of a train.
• It may not even be a cat, but I always thought it looked like one.
• The game was a digital download, pretty sure I got it from an indie game dev’s website showcasing his games and projects, and I’m not 100% sure the game was finished.

I’ve got a couple.

One was a dark comedy sketch that a friend showed me in, I want to say '99(?). A couple appear to be in therapy, and the doctor asks how this started. They recount through flashbacks a series of more extreme requests under the guise of “if you loved me, you would do it”. At one point one of them definitely made a piece of toast and put nail clipping on it, then told the other that “if you loved me, you would eat it”. The sketch concludes >! showing that they were actually in a final surgical consult and the last scene is them being wheeled into surgery to be joined at the hip!<

The other is a comic strip where a couple people are working on their computers when either a song starts playing, or one person starts saying “shoop shoop shoop shoop-a-doop” and stylistically dancing while putting on their jacket. As they dance to the exit the other person says “shoop a doop?” and then the first dances their way off frame