Line #31 KeepCirculatingTheTapes/FanWorks


1	Any fanwork in a fandom under a FanworkBan usually becomes this. As most sites are pulled for fear of invoking legal wrath, some fanworks are made available through shady underground communities.
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3	* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fanfic [[http://fanlore.org/wiki/A_Fragment_Out_of_Time "A Fragment out of Time" by Diane Marchant]] — the first [[HoYay Kirk]] / [[SlashFic Spock]] fic ever written, and the story that spawned SlashFic as a genre — exists today only in its original zine, ''Grup'' 3, which is extremely rare. Except in the form of [[https://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm303/Lord_Chamberlains_Men/Nothing%20to%20see%20here/Grup3p2.jpg page]] [[https://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm303/Lord_Chamberlains_Men/Nothing%20to%20see%20here/Grup3p3.jpg images]], the story was never posted online.[[note]]"Online" as such didn't exist in 1974, other than the PLATO computer system which networked to colleges and universities. It had Reddit-like forums ("notesfiles") and IRC-like chats, including places where stories could be posted, but "A Fragment Out Of Time" wasn't one of them.[[/note]] The only way to read it is to hunt down the zine in used bins at conventions or keep checking to see if an online zine merchant has a copy for sale (might be expensive). The University of Iowa Library, however, hosts a special collection of early fanzines, including ''Grup'' 3 and the zine that contained Marchant's defense of K/S — ''Grup'' 4. You may also find text transcripts on Tumblr or other blogging sites.
4	** This is actually true of many of the early fic written in zines, as many authors never made the switch to the Internet. There are websites where text transcripts of these early stories are archived, and a surprising number of [[https://archive.org/search.php?query=star+trek+fanzine%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts fanzines have been digitized and added to the Internet Archive]].[[note]]Pay particular attention to ''Spockanalia'', the first ''Star Trek'' fanzine, ''Masiform D'', another high quality early production, and ''Contact'', which featured stories of devoted but platonic friendship between Kirk and Spock.[[/note]]
5	* [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388850/ Computer Boy]], an Australian parody of Film/TheMatrix. No DVD release and only [[http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/3544 available]] as a low-resolution Quicktime download, due to (apparent) legal issues with a scene filmed inside a [=McDonald's=] store.
6	** Luckily, another mirror has been added to the [[http://archive.org/details/ComputerBoy Internet Archive]].
7	* It has been known for fanfic authors who turn pro to pull their fanfic from the internet, either because they [[CreatorBacklash regret ever writing it]], because their publishers don't approve, or because they're strip-mining their fic for ideas for original works and don't want people to make comparisons.
8	** It's not just ones from authors that turn pro. Any fanfic can just disappear from the internet due to some reason from the fanfic author. Sure, most of those aren't worth reading, but there are some good ones that disappear too.
9	** ''Fanfic/SnowAngels'' is only notable because it has a works page, but the author has long since pulled it from Website/FanFictionDotNet. A DramaticReading of the first few chapters does exist on [=YouTube=], but the videos have been made private (so only the dramatic reader's friends can see them) after somebody the dramatic reader knows in real life mistook him for the actual creator. Since ''Snow Angels'' is SoBadItsGood...
10	* When an Internet domain goes under, works by inattentive authors using that domain will disappear. The end of Geocities killed quite a few fanfics on unmaintained sites which had been popular enough to stay up by reader visits alone. Ones on Tripod and [=FortuneCity=] have also disappeared.
11	* Anything that was on Soupfiction and is not in the Wayback Archive.
12	* Website/FanFictionDotNet allowed RealPersonFic until about 2001, and then removed it all. Some of it is still missing.
13	** In general, stories uploaded to the site have a nasty habit of disappearing without warning after a while. This is because FFN likes to periodically purge inactive/long completed fics for the sake of saving space on the site.
14	* Any of Racewing's fanfics appear almost completely lost. AndThatsTerrible.
15	** Some of them and others on Racewing's site can be found [[http://web.archive.org/web/20090124051421/http://racewing.net/LRU/ here]]
16	* VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl mod Project M was taken down in December 2015, leaving behind [[http://projectmgame.com/en one last blog post]]. However, players of the game have been circulating mirrors of it so that it can still thrive.
17	* ''VideoGame/AnotherMetroid2Remake'', developed over a decade, was out for little more than a day before Creator/{{Nintendo}} [[ScrewedByTheLawyers sent DMCA takedowns towards all sites hosting the game]], and later forced the developer to stop updating the game altogether. Despite (or rather [[StreisandEffect because of]]) this, fans who downloaded the game before then have set up mirrors all over the internet.
18	* Kelly Green seems to consider her earliest, adulated ''[[Fanfic/HauntedMansionAndTheHatboxGhost Haunted Mansion]]'' comics terrible and deleted them for Website/DeviantArt. Emma Mosier also deleted some of her early Phantom Manor doodles after being harassed by shippers who shamed her for her "Phantom/Melanie" AU. Fortunately, through a combination of fans having made personal copies on their hard drives and the ever-useful Internet Archive, most of those comics have been relocated and copies [[http://haunted-mansion-fandom.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Deleted can be seen on the wiki]].
19	* There used to be ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fan comic by pixiv user Wimifu, the which has a child Ran being raised by Yukari but, for some reason, the artist took their pixiv page down (or hid it, as the Wayback Machine says it's still around), thus the only way to view a good much of the comic and the artist's other artwork is through imageboard sites.
20	* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' fanartist "Herokick" hid her Website/{{Tumblr}} page and left her [=AU=] comic uncompleted, thus the only way to view much of said comic (along with other fanart) was on her twitter page (which you'd have to already be following, as it was made private) but, apparently, the Twitter account has been deactivated, so the only way see the comic (and her fanart) are imageboard sites, the Wayback Machine, or to search for it online. According to some background on Reddit, she deleted much of her ''Kill la Kill'' fanart (and fanart on an alt account) because of harassment and that she was afraid that her ships would hurt her reputation as an artist.
21	* Fan-videos of any kind ([[{{Fanvid}} AMVs]], AbridgedSeries, "crack" videos, etc) when the user account is either A), taken down, B), terminated by the site, and or C), the videos are muted/blocked from viewing (more often than not in the case of Website/YouTube). Fortunately, if fans are diligent enough, there are usually mirrors.
22	* The well-known ''Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy'' fan-artist Yami-Shin deleted almost all of the Edd/Eddy fanart off of her Deviantart page. Thanks to her popularity, however, most if not all of it still exists online.
23	* Many ''Blog/AskAPony'' blogs close and as a result their artwork dies with them. Even highly popular ones like ''Blog/AskPinkaminaDianePie'' and ''Blog/AskPrincessMolestia'' have had this. It's up to fans to keep the askings circulating.
24	* ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheClockworkStallions'', a fully developed platform game by [[http://darkerastudios.weebly.com/ Darkera Studios]], was removed from their site once they started to advertise their first original game. Thankfully, the original download link still exists, but it requires some Wayback Machine action in order to properly access. As the files are intact, some fans have gone so far as to store it on their personal cloud drives, allowing others to easily access the game if asked for.
25	* ''Fanfic/{{Paradise}}'' was a lengthy OriginsEpisode fanfic for Celestia and Luna detailing how they went from unassuming Earth pony foals to godlike alicorn princesses. In 2014 it was removed offline so that the writer could rewrite it. That has yet to occur due to personal reasons, but fans have archived the original story.
26	* Some while back, there was a Walfas artist by the name of "Cirno is a Genius" who vanished from [=YouTube=], Twitter, and Tumblr, taking all of their videos with them. Unfortunately, besides two vids, there doesn't seem to be any trace/mirrors of their videos anywhere.
27	* ''Fanfic/UnstableEquilibrium'' is a Korra/Asami fanfic where Asami is an equalist. The writer deleted it, meaning the only way to read it is through reposts.
28	* The ''Steven Universe'' fic ''Fanfic/NoOneSaidLifeWasGonnaBeFair'' was deleted by its writer. Others have reuploaded it.
29	* When Machinima closed its [=YouTube=] channel, all of the videos were lost. However, some videos and series have been uploaded by fans who managed to have them saved, including ''Arby 'n The Chief'', as well as ''Pre-Game Lobby.'' Unfortunately, there were a lot of early machinima made that were uploaded to Machinima.com that are still lost to this day.
30	* ''Kaijunited: Japanese Monsters & Us'', Fabien Mauro's fan documentary about the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fandom in Japan, the US and France was originally screened at a fan convention in 2012 and became available online for a few years before being removed, presumably for legal reasons. However, other Godzilla-related French video reports and interviews that were likewise deleted have been re-uploaded to the [=TokuScope=] Website/YouTube channel.
31	* ''Zeldanime'' was a ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda]]'' fan webcomic that was made to remake the [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989 animated series from 1989]]. Originally hosted on its own website, it would later move to Website/DeviantArt after the domain expired, but later down the line, [=OniChild=], one of the artists who worked on the comic, would delete all of his deviations, including the comic's pages, from the website save for one image to protest AI artwork on the platform. While a number of the webcomic's later pages are still available on the official Tumblr account, reading the rest of the comic requires use of the [=WayBack=] Machine, but even then, some pages of the comic on the former official site do not appear to have been archived before its closure.
32	* ''Luigi Sucks At Super Smash Bros.'' (''Melee'' and then ''Brawl''), a Nintendo-themed parody of ''Arby 'n the Chief'', was a [=YouTube=] series that revolved around the ''Smash''-playing misadventures of toy figures of Luigi and Wario, and later a plush of Pikachu. It ran from 2008 to 2010, and there were also extra videos titled ''Luigi Sucks At (X)'', which involved the toys getting into other shenanigans. The author, Ryan Flint (AKA [=DekuScrubby=]), eventually made all the videos private and terminated his whole channel circa 2012. None of the original videos can be found anywhere anymore, though [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cHo3fX_kyg one episode]] has been miraculously salvaged. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV-gRtH6pEg few]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtjJN7tHEQs fan-made]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZE3TT5o23Y videos]] of the series are still up too.
33	* ''As Simple and as Complicated as All That'', a beloved and [[{{Doorstopper}} extremely long]] ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' fanfic that paired Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker before they were made an OfficialCouple, vanished off of the Internet when the website fanfix.com went down. Since the fics on the site were zipped files that had to be downloaded, the Internet Archive could not archive it. Author Licia Nishino's website only had a few chapters of an attempted rewrite that has long since been abandoned. Luckily, one fan who had loved the original story actually had it ''physically printed out and put in a notebook'' as a teenager, the contents of which were digitized and turned into a PDF file.
34	* Infamous ''WebVideo/SMPLive'' and ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' {{Crossover}} fanfiction ''Fanfic/SMPRonpa'' was believed to be lost forever for several years due to [=CallMeCarson=] (and only Carson) singling it out as inappropriate and uncomfortable on a stream, leading to the author [[BuryYourArt deleting it]]. Fans circulated snippets of the work until it was finally found in full in 2024.
35	* As of 2020, both games in the ''VideoGame/MarioInAnimatronicHorror'' have been deleted from Gamejolt, the website which they were originally hosted, and [=GalacticStar=] Studios has no intention of bringing them back due to both games being ScrewedByTheLawyers.

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