Sandbox / Bury Your Art Wick Check

Here a wick check will be performed for Bury Your Art.

Why?: Bury Your Art is supposed to be about when a creator buries their work due to Creator Backlash. However, it is being misused for cases where creators bury their work for reasons other than Creator Backlash, as well as cases where a corporation or estate, not the creator, bury the art.

Wicks checked: 50/50

Wick totals:

• 19/50 wicks were correctly used (with the creator burying art due to Creator Backlash), or 38%
• 9/50 wicks concerned a creator burying art for reasons other than Creator Backlash, or 18%
• 6/50 wicks didn't say why a creator buried the art, or 12%,
• 9/50 wicks were of a corporation or a creator's estate burying the art, or 18%,
• 1/50 wicks were of other use, or 2%,
• 5/50 wicks were zero-context examples or unclear, or 10%, and
• 1/50 wicks were unclassifialble, or 2%

Totaling correct and incorrect use together, that's

• 19/50 wicks correct, or 38%, and
• 30/50 wicks incorrect, or 60%

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Correct use (creator buries art due to Creator Backlash) (19/50)

1. Trivia.Doctor Who (1): Douglas Adams attempted to do this with "Shada", a serial he wrote that was abandoned mid-production following a workers' strike in 1979. Adams disliked the story, refused to license it for novelization (it eventually got one in 2012, over a decade after his death), and nearly would've had the serial buried completely (barring some clips being recycled for "The Five Doctors") had he not absentmindedly signed an agreement in 1992 that allowed the BBC to release a reconstruction of it.^note A version of the Shada story was re-used by Adams in his novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, recycling the main characters and aspects of the plot. The Tom Baker role was re-written as eccentric private detective Dirk Gently. Creator buries art due to backlash.
2. Trivia.Squeeze 1973: The album has never been reissued on a physical format and didn't appear on streaming services until 2014, owed to it being a de-facto Doug Yule solo album that Polydor Records rushed out the door to capitalize on the success of former frontman Lou Reed's Transformer the year prior and the band's growing cult following. Yule dismissed the album in 1995 as "the blind leading the blind," and the other band members have refused to discuss it to this day. Creators bury art due to backlash.
3. Trivia.Channel Awesome: This fate has seemingly befallen all the Anniversary Specials. Whether one visits the Channel Awesome website or Youtube channel, one will not find these specials anywhere. Since the store page was never repaired, that also means dvds remain impossible to purchase. The only acknowledgement of their existence from CA are former DVD exclusive Nostalgic Critic reviews; had it not been for unofficial reuploads, there would be no way to watch them. A reason has never been given, but many speculate this is due to a combination of Old Shame and lingering fallout from Change The Channel. Close enough. Creator Backlash (incorrectly listed as Old Shame) is listed as one reason.
4. Trivia.Japan:
   • According to Mick Karn in a 1996 interview, the band were "really ashamed" of, and "would absolutely hate anyone to hear", their early demos for the German Hansa record label (at the time "basically a disco-oriented label with Boney M. and people like that"), which Karn describes as the result of "spend[ing] quite a long time in the studio to convince [the label] that we were not a disco band—that we weren't very good at disco music". The demos have never been released as a result.
   • "Some Kind of Fool" was recorded and intended for release on Gentlemen Take Polaroids, only to be abruptly replaced with "Burning Bridges" at the last minute due to David Sylvian believing that it wasn't fit for release. Sylvian eventually re-recorded the vocal part and released the results on his 2000 rarities collection Everything and Nothing, but the original version remains unreleased, with Sylvian personally vetoing every attempt to get it out to the public. Art buried due to Creator Backlash.
5. Trivia.Leonard Part 6: Rumors have persisted that Bill Cosby bought the television rights to make sure this movie would never appear on television, it made its network television debut on CBS on April 24, 1990. He was unable to get the home video rights, so the movie did receive a DVD release. Creator attempts to bury art due to backlash.
6. Trivia.Hiimdaisy: Thanks to longstanding Creator Backlash, Gigi DG took down the LiveJournal and Photobucket accounts for the comic after starting work on Cucumber Quest. Creator buries art due to backlash.
7. Trivia.Proton Jon: Jon's first LP was of Kirby Super Star, and like his other early content, it was uploaded to Google Videos rather than YouTube. Jon ended up disliking the playthrough so much that when Google Videos was shut down, he only reuploaded the first part, refusing to put the rest up as well. Consequently, the other videos only survive through fan reuploads. Creator buries art due to backlash.
8. Funny.Todd In The Shadows Trainwreckords 2020 Todd pointing out that this album has become such an Old Shame for the band that not only has it never been reissued, it's not even on their Spotify page, despite the fact that you can find every little studio outtake of theirs from 1963 on the streaming site. Creator buries art due to backlash.
9. TooBleakStoppedCaring.Comic Books: The Unfunnies— Funny Animals get raped and abused as their world is transformed by their Karma Houdini serial killer/child molester creator. While some read it in horror and disgust, most who read it in the years after its publication find the comic to be a painfully dull example of the Subverted Kids' Show, with most of its humor derived from pure shock comedy that quickly bores more than surprises due to how constant and unrelenting its dark jokes are. It's telling that Millar himself would go on to disown the comic and refuse to even talk about it when asked. Implied Creator Backlash being the reason the comic was buried.
10. Trivia.The Residents: For decades, the band refused to officially release their pre-Santa Dog demo tapes out of embarrassment towards them, with only snippets and select songs getting released. By the 2010s, they softened their stance enough to give The Warner Bros. Album and Baby Sex official releases as part of their pREServed rerelease campaign. However, they remain steadfast in refusing to release Rusty Coathangers for the Doctor and The Ballad of Stuffed Trigger, with the former only receiving a truncated release and the latter explicitly ruled out from being released. Creators bury art due to backlash.
11. Trivia.The Adventures Of Ook And Gluk Kung Fu Cavemen From The Future: In the wake of an increase in hate crimes against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in 2021, Pilkey expressed regret towards The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen From the Future for having "harmful racial stereotypes and passively racist imagery" against Asians and had the book pulled from print. Creator buries art due to backlash.
12. Trivia.The Needle Drop: thatistheplan was shut down in 2017 to protest YouTube's monetization policies. Fantano hasn't reuploaded any of the channel's videos, stating in a 2020 interview that he was uncomfortable with its association with "toxic and problematic" internet humor. Creator buries art due to backlash.
13. Trivia.Weird Al Yankovic: While Al hates most of his material recorded before his first album and hasn't re-released most of it out of personal shame, he has gone extra lengths to make sure his uncharacteristically blue song "Orgy on My Own" remains suppressed. It was deemed lost for decades and was almost treated as an urban legend until a version of the song was leaked online in 2012. It has since been exchanged hands many times, but the caveat was that the version of the song leaked was sung by co-writer Joe Earley and not Al himself. However, in 2018, a Weird Al podcast got hold of a version from a concert in which Al sang the entire song. They played around a third of the song on the podcast, but they will never share the full song without Al's blessing, which they have made clear will never happen. Creator buries art due to backlash.
14. DarthWiki.Consequences: Creator Backlash: it became too much of a Cliché Storm and everyone was running out of ideas... and with The Lyniezian going through a phase of being The Fundamentalist, stories of grenade-wielding lesbian mass murderers and the Earth getting blown up seemed less like a good idea, so he threw out many of the old stories. Most of the examples on this page are based entirely on memory. Creator buries art due to backlash.
15. Trivia.Having Fun With Elvis On Stage: Presley loathed the album and personally had it withdrawn shortly after its release. RCA Records would briefly reissue it after Presley's death, but after that, the album would never officially sit on store shelves again. Creator buries art due to backlash.
16. Trivia.The Nostalgia Chick:
    • The review of the 1984 film adaptation of Dune was taken down shortly after its release, as Lindsay Ellis felt that most of the plot holes she brought up were actually addressed within the film itself, as unclear as they were.
    • Lindsay Ellis privated almost all of the series' videos thanks to her Creator Backlash towards them, believing that they helped foster an overreliance on the Caustic Critic reviewing style among content creators. The only videos still publicly available are the reviews for Freddy Got Fingered and The Lord of the Rings, which were reuploaded to Ellis' main channel. Creator buries art due to backlash in both entries—I'll consider the first "backlash" too as disagreeing with your own points IMO is a form of backlash.
17. Trivia.Tame Impala: The band withdrew the original single version of "Borderline" from circulation after the release of its parent album, The Slow Rush, due to frontman Kevin Parker's dissatisfaction with its mixing (specifically describing the bassline as not being prominent enough). As a result, the reworked album version of the song is the only one officially available. Art buried due to backlash.
18. Trivia.Changesonebowie: After regaining the rights to his RCA Records backlog, Bowie withdrew all of the label's compilations of his material, this one included, out of disdain towards what he felt was them "milking" his catalog over the years. Both this album and Changestwobowie wouldn't return to print until after Bowie's death in 2016. Art buried due to backlash.
19. Trivia.Shiness The Lightning Kingdom: When Samir Rebib started working on the game, his original manga The Shiness no longer satisfied him, so he shut its website down. While part of the website was archived by the Wayback Machine, the manga's pages weren't (except page 38 of volume 2◊, of all things) and no backups are known to exist, though a few other pages were preserved on some other websites. The first few chapters of the manga were also published in the fanzine Fantaizine, but copies of it are extremely rare nowadays, some issues might be entirely lost. Creator buries art due to backlash.

Creator buries art for reasons other than Creator Backlash (9/50)

1. Trivia.John Waters: Waters refuses to release his first three films in any format, and they have not appeared since their original showings. This may be in part due to their presentation; Roman Candles, for example, consists of three separate reels of footage shown on three screens simultaneously, without sound, as a separate audio recording plays. This isn't something you can replicate on a DVD player (he did have Roman Candles transferred to videotape in the 1980s, using a 4-panel split screen, with one screen left blank, which he has shown at festival and academic screenings). Creator buries art due to bizarre presentation.
2. Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: Godspeed You! Black Emperor's demo tape All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling was the holy grail of indie fans for years. It was limited to 33 cassettes, and the band refused to reissue it for ages due to how different it was from their usual work, making the chances of it resurfacing very unlikely. Despite this, in 2013, a Reddit user revealed that they had one of the tapes and that they were ready to rip and distribute it, uploading two tracks to confirm its authenticity. However, harassment from fans led them to shut down their account and disappear from the internet, causing the rest of the songs to remain in limbo until they got leaked on 4chan in 2022; the band finally reissued the album on Bandcamp after that. Creator buries art because music sounds different from other music.
3. KeepCirculatingTheTapes.Rescued: Pink Floyd's cancelled non-album single "Scream Thy Last Scream"/"Vegetable Man" went unreleased for decades after being junked. They were among the last songs completed with Syd Barrett, who was already so far off the deep end at that time that the surviving members of the band chose to withhold them from release due to the songs being too voyeuristically illustrative of his mental state. The tracks would become popular bootlegs over the years before eventually seeing an official release on the 2016 Boxed Set The Early Years 1965—1972. Creators bury art due to discomfort with themes and their relation to a former singer, rather than outright backlash.
4. Trivia.Living With Wario: The series was pulled from the Games and Wario channel in 2019 in response to YouTube tightening its regulations on mature content after the site was caught violating the Child Online Privacy Protection Act. The videos were eventually reuploaded on a separate channel the following year. Art buried due to content issues, not backlash.
5. YMMV.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredders Revenge: Ninjara, Chien Khan, and Al'Falqa can be seen in the Edo area. While the former are respectively an Ensemble Dark Horse and related to her story arc, the latter is very obscure, as he hails from a story arc that was considered too controversial to reprint. Art buried due to controversy, not backlash.
6. Memes.Super Mario Bros: This game doesn't exist. ^Explanation The exclusion of this game from Super Mario 3D All-Stars, a Compilation Re-release of 3D Mario games for the Switch, as well as its exclusion from the ending montage of the Nintendo Direct meant to celebrate the series' 35th anniversary, all despite it being one of the series' most beloved entries, has led to jokes about how Nintendo is bent on denying the game's existence and systematically removing all mentions of it. Art buried due to the game explicitly being part of a celebration.
7. Trivia.The Dom Reviews: Dom unlisted his videos on the Harry Potter series in light of various transphobic statements made by J. K. Rowling, additionally excising them from main series playlists so as to not promote her works in any way. Art buried as a protest against comments made by a creator.
8. Trivia.Analog Archives: Aidan Chick privated the entirety of both this series and Eventide Media Center following backlash he faced for "Crimson Creek", an episode of the latter series, in which an alien attack is covered up as a school shooting at Crimson Creek Community College. Creator buries art due to backlash from others, not the creator themself.
9. Trivia.Dave Grohl: Grohl's 1992 album Pocketwatch, recorded under the pseudonym Late!, was released via an obscure indie label that manufactured cassette copies on demand. According to Grohl, the label repeatedly asked him to put out a CD release of the album, but he refused to do so because "it was never intended to be a big thing;" Grohl would never reissue the album after the label went under. This and the dubious fate of the master tapes^note the album was recorded directly onto cassette, resulting in the master tapes already deteriorating by the time the label requested a CD reissue resulted in original copies and bootleg CDs becoming highly sought after; Grohl would joke that one of his goals with the album was to deliberately drive up secondhand prices to ludicrous levels. Creator buries art to avoid it becoming big.

Reason not given for burying art (6/50)

1. Trivia.Ride To Hell Retribution: The game's developer, Eutechnyx, pulled the game's listing from its own website mere months after it came out, it was also pulled from Steam a year after its release. And its publisher, Deep Silver, doesn't list the game on its own website either. Example doesn't say why the art was buried. Not listed under corporation burying art as in this case, the corporation is the creator.
2. Trivia.Foo Fighters: The band seemed to take this approach with "The One", a non-album track that was done for the Orange County soundtrack. Even though it received a lot of radio airplay and its video was often played on music channels, they cancelled its full release as a single (except in Australia) and did not include it on "One By One" (despite the similar title), burying it on the b-side to "All My Life" in the UK and Europe. Also, they passed it up for both their compilations Greatest Hits and The Essential Foo Fighters, and don't play it live. It was a very popular song at the time, and so this is particularly odd to fans. Example doesn't explain why song was buried.
3. Trivia.Franz Kafka: Kafka burned a lot of his manuscripts and, before dying, he asked his best friend, Max Brod, to burn other works, including The Trial, The Castle and "America", which he considered of lower quality. Max went against his wishes. However, it is not true that Kafka asked that ALL of his works were burned: he published many books when he was alive, including The Metamorphosis. The primary reason Brod gave for not following Kafka's wishes was that he didn't think Kafka was serious, since if he wanted those works destroyed, he would have done it himself, something he told Kafka to his face in response to the request. Example doesn't explain why manuscripts were buried.
4. Trivia.A Certain Sacrifice: Madonna attempted, unsuccessfully, to have the film withdrawn and banned from circulation via a lawsuit in 1985. No reason given for burying art.
5. Trivia.Lingua Ignota: The version of her "Wicked Game" cover featuring Alexis Marshall was removed from streaming and a solo version was released instead, for obvious reasons. What "obvious reasons"? The example doesn't elaborate.
6. Scare 'Em Straight: His goal of scaring you into believing in God occasionally veers in a creepy direction. In one tract, a father sexually abuses his daughter and gives her gonorrhea. He then accepts Jesus and all is forgiven. His daughter magically isn't traumatized, and he suffers no legal consequences for the abuse. There's a reason that tract is no longer in circulation. Which reason? No specific elaboration.

Corporation or estate of creator buries art (9/50)

1. HarsherInHindsight.Live Action TV: The entire premise of "iMeet Fred", in which Freddie becomes a worldwide pariah for saying that Fred isn't funny, becomes this because it was supposed to herald Nickelodeon's new partnership with Lucas Cruikshank. All the projects that would come out of that deal (a trilogy of Fred TV movies, Fred: The Show and Marvin Marvin), would became massive failures that the network now likes to pretend doesn't exist. Corporation, not creator, buries art.
2. ScrewedByTheLawyers.Video Games: The King of Fighters 2001 featured a new character named K9999, an unusually blatant (even by fighting game standards) Captain Ersatz of Tetsuo Shima from AKIRA. Fearing legal threats over plagiarism, SNK did everything they could to erase him from company history, including retconning the storyline of the NESTS Chronicles Saga, outright replacing him with the newly-designed Nameless in The King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match, and, as a 2019 report indicated, making it company policy that even so much as talking about him was forbidden. Once they finally decided to bring him back properly in The King of Fighters XV, he was redesigned and renamed to "Krohnen" to distance him from Tetsuo. Corporation, not creator, buries character.
3. Trivia.Censored Eleven: Warner Bros. has made sure to bury the existence of the shorts as much as possible, with the cartoons not having aired on television since 1968 and never receiving any official home video release. As of now, Warner Bros have only rereleased the cartoons once, which was during the first annual TCM Classic Film Festival in 2010. There were plans to release them on DVD roughly around that same time, but Warner Bros ultimately decided to scrap those plans, preferring to keep them buried for the time being. Corporation, not creator, buries art.
4. SoBadItsGood.Music: Infogrames spent $50,000 making a song called "Infogrames Rocks My World" that was to be used at events such as E3 2002. However, it appears they weren't pleased with it, as they ended up firing everyone involved in the production of the song and tried to suppress its existence until a developer snuck it into the code of Driver 3 and got fired for it. The song itself has some rather hackneyed lyrics - especially in the chorus - but what keeps it from being outright awful is the gospel-style sound that makes the song genuinely catchy. Corporation, not creators, bury art.
5. Dying to Be Replaced: A rather complicated example in The King of Fighters: originally, there was K9999, but SNK felt dissatisfied with him due to being a brazen knockoff of AKIRAs Tetsuo Shima and decided, from The King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match onward, to erase all traces of him in favor of propping up the more sympathetically portrayed Nameless. Then K9999 got rebranded and returned to canon in The King of Fighters XV as Krohnen, but there was still the problem of what to do with Nameless. SNK's answer? Kill him off in The King of Fighters All Star! Corporation, not creator, buries art.'
6. ReferencedBy.Akira: The King of Fighters 2001: Newcomer K9999 is Tetsuo in all but name and color scheme. Same powers, same clothes, same voice actor... it's probably easier to list what K9999 doesn't borrow from Tetsuo. The sheer blatant Tetsuo-ness of K9999 was widely presumed to be the reason why SNK went out of their way to make it look like he never existed until eventually revamping him in The King of Fighters XV. Corporation, not creator, buries art.
7. Trivia.Hotel Mario: The game has never been reissued in any way since it first came out, thanks to its negative reputation among not only fans and critics, but also Nintendo themselves, who refuse to acknowledge its existence. Corporation, not creator, buries art.
8. YMMV.True Life Adventures: Overshadowed by Controversy: While White Wilderness was acclaimed in its day, nowadays it is known more for two controversies that overlap with each other: perpetuating the Suicidal Lemmings myth^note Some lemmings do throw themselves off of cliffs, but it is done for the sake of migration, and even worse, the filmmakers deliberately throwing the lemmings off of the cliff shown in the documentary, drowning them and then editing footage to make it look like natural suicide. As a result, White Wilderness has become Condemned by History and considered unreleasable by Disney. Corporation buries art, not a creator.
9. Unfortunate Implications: English Fairy Tales (previously known as My Pingu TV), a channel from India featuring animated fairy tales, came under fire thanks to a video called Dina and the Prince, in which an angel named Dina is forbidden from speaking with the prince that she loves, but does so anyway and is punished by being turned into a black woman with a scarred face and curly hair, which is explicitly said to be "ugly", while her previous pale-skinned and straight-haired appearance is said to be "beautiful". As covered on the article, hundreds on the video itself and on social media criticized both the message and its execution, as it was not something you'd want impressionable kids to take to heart. The channel eventually released an apology and removed the video. Corporation buries art, not a specific creator.

Other use (1/50)

1. Trivia.Doctor Who (2): After "The Dark Dimension" was scrapped, the Eastenders crossover "Dimensions in Time" was made in its place as the new 30th anniversary special. However, it was made under the agreement that it would never be re-released, and the BBC have adhered to this request to this day. Unclear as to why art was buried.

ZCEs and unclear (5/50)

1. PutOnABus.Video Games: Both Ángel and K9999 cut their losses and abandon NESTS at the end of 2001. The former reappears in XIV, and the latter in turn in XV, although under the contrived identity of Krohnen to escape any chance of a repeat of what happened to him for 20 years. No context pothole.
2. Film.The Day The Clown Cried: Pop-Cultural Osmosis: This is one of the most infamous and talked-about movies ever made... that practically nobody has ever seen, not because they simply haven't seen it, but because they can't. It has gotten to the point that it is treated as a joke rather than an actual existing movie. Pothole lacks context.
3. Trivia.Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind: The 1985 English dub, Warriors of the Wind, has never been re-released since New World Media's rights to the film expired in 1995. The dub was loathed by director Hayao Miyazaki for its heavy edits, leading Studio Ghibli (formed by Nausicaä alums in the wake of its Japanese success) to institute their famous "no cuts" policy for later English dubs of their works. Fittingly, Disney would put out a more faithful English dub of Nausicaä in 2005. Unclear if a creator burying a dub counts as the creator burying the art.
4. PutOnABus.Video Games: Both Ángel and K9999 cut their losses and abandon NESTS at the end of 2001. The former reappears in XIV, and the latter in turn in XV, although under the contrived identity of Krohnen to escape any chance of a repeat of what happened to him for 20 years. No context pothole.
5. Trivia.OK Computer: An Animated Music Video for "Let Down" was created by Simon Hilton, only to be rejected by the band because they didn't like how it turned out, with Thom Yorke outright calling it "shite." Hilton eventually made the video available on his website, but eventually took it down for unspecified reasons; despite this, fan reuploads can be found online. Unclear as to why the video is unavailable—while the band didn't like the video, the creator of the video didn't explain why it was taken down.

Unclassifiable (1/50)

1. Image Source.Webcomics Index.