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* [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. |
* [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. |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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** 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, [[Sturgeon's Law|most of those aren't worth reading]], but there are some good ones that disappear too. |
** 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. |
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** 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 podcast reading of the fic still survives in the site, through). |
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* 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 |
* 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 the same fortune. |
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* Anything that was on Soupfiction and is not in the Wayback Archive. |
* Anything that was on [https://fanlore.org/wiki/SoupFiction.net Soupfiction] and is not in the Wayback Archive. |
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* [[Fanfiction.net]] had [[Real Person Fic]] until about 2001, and then removed it all. Some of it is still missing. |
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** Most of the R-and-up rated fics that existed in the site before the 2003 purges of mature content are still missing too. |
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* Any of Racewing's fanfics appear almost completely lost. And that's terrible. |
* Any of Racewing's fanfics appear almost completely lost. And that's terrible. |
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** Some of them and others on racewing's site can be found [http://wayback.archive.org/web/*http://www.racewing.net/LRU/files/* here] |
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* 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 [[Beyond the Impossible|from the Wayback Machine]]). Almost a decade later he still monitors the web for reappearances of his work and sends politely-worded requests to take it down whenever he finds it. However, while no websites host his stories any more, there are still archives being traded from fan to fan; if you can find [[User:Looney Toons|someone]] who has them, you can still read his [[Dead Fic|sadly incomplete]] works. |
* 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 [[Beyond the Impossible|from the Wayback Machine]]). Almost a decade later he still monitors the web for reappearances of his work and sends politely-worded requests to take it down whenever he finds it. However, while no websites host his stories any more, there are still archives being traded from fan to fan; if you can find [[User:Looney Toons|someone]] who has them, you can still read his [[Dead Fic|sadly incomplete]] works. |
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* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' fics by [[Cori Falls]], for the misfortune of many enterprising [[MST|sporkers]] wanting to [[Bile Fascination|have fun]] with them. |
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