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** This is actually true of many of the early fic written in zines, as many authors never made the switch to the Internet.
* Any fanwork in a fandom under a [[Fanwork Ban]] usually becomes this. As most sites are pulled for fear of invoking legal wrath, some fanworks are made available through shady underground communities.
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388850/ Computer Boy], an Australian parody of ''[[The Matrix]]''. 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.
* It has been known for fanfic authors who turn pro to pull their fanfic from the internet, either because they consider it [[Old Shame]], 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. The most emblematic cases are Cassandra Clare and her ''[[The Draco Trilogy|Draco Trilogy]]'', and E. L. James with "''Masters of the Universe''", the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' fanfic that eventually became ''[[Fifty Shades of Grey]]''.
** 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. Deleting all their content after [[Rage Quit]]ting a fandom isn't an unusual occurrence. Sure, [[Sturgeon's Law|most of those fics aren't worth reading]], but there are some good ones that disappear too.
** Sometimes, authors tired of their fics being plagiarized or reuploaded without permission pull them from theirs accounts, paradoxically making their plagiarists and reuploaders the only way to read said fics again. One such particular case was ''Overgrowth'', a very popular ''[[Undertale]]'' fanfic that codified the [[Alternate Universe|"Flowerfell" AU]], that was retired from the author's [[Archive of Our Own|AO3 account]] due to being extensively plagiarized (an author-approved
* 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. While the Geocities ones could theoretically be rescued if they managed to get into the many surviving dump mirrors for the site, the ones on Tripod and FortuneCity, due to being in less "emblematic" web hosts, had not met the same fortune.
* Anything that was on [https://fanlore.org/wiki/SoupFiction.net Soupfiction] and is not in the [[Wayback Machine]].
* [[Fanfiction.net]] had [[Real Person Fic]] until about 2001, and then removed it all. Some of it is still missing.
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* Any of Racewing's fanfics appear almost completely lost. And that's terrible.
** Some of them and others on racewing's site can be found [http://wayback.archive.org/web/*http://www.racewing.net/LRU/files/* here]
* The ''[[Ranma ½]]/[[Sailor Moon]]'' [[Crossover]] fic ''[[Relatively Absent]]'', by Mark "Togashi Gaijin" Shurtleff: an inventive and very well-written example ''and'' subversion of the classic [[Fuku Fic]] concept. Unfortunately, Shurtleff left the fanfiction scene in 2009 and succeeded in very thoroughly purging this and his other fics from the Net (even from the [[Wayback Machine]]). A decade later he was still
* Despite her thorough scrubbing of her former websites, many of the ''[[Pokémon]]'' fics by [[Cori Falls]] survive intact if you know where to ask, to the delight of [[MST|sporkers]] and fandom historians. Unfortunately, [[Missing Episode|the same cannot be said]] of her ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' fics, who apparently are [[Lost Forever]].
* This trope is the reason why [[Archive of Our Own]] implemented their "orphaning" feature, so authors can disengage from their former works without making them lost to the ether. For the same reason, AO3 also goes onto archiving old and defunct fanfic archives whenever possible; many of their earliest hosted works were re-uploads of fics from several archives that were in the verge of closing at the time.
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