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Gorgeous old image from over a decade ago that took me days to track down and find because the artist deleted their gallery. Even the Wayback Machine failed me.
Really grinds my gears when an artist departs the fandom and decides to take all their old art with them. You know, I respect that someone’s tastes can change, but it doesn’t mean everyone else’s changes with them.
Really grinds my gears when an artist departs the fandom and decides to take all their old art with them. You know, I respect that someone’s tastes can change, but it doesn’t mean everyone else’s changes with them.
I suppose it’s just me that finds them practical. I get your analogy, but yet these dead links have previously helped confirmed aliases, Wayback Machine searches, forum accounts, etc. Maybe it’s useful to only a handful of us and perhaps why it’s otherwise not worth the effort most of the time.
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Something I failed to mention was the original video I was looking for had been removed from YouTube, which is what set me on course in the first place into hoping I’d downloaded it somewhere on an old hard drive. Les Friction - What You Need; someone had used this image as the background. Utterly perfect match; you should open both image and song to see what I mean.
Again, nice work! I don’t know if we’re thinking of the same song, but mine was Oxygen - FritzyBeat hugs Almost Anyone. The artist was already listed in the description of that video. The image with the original link was found in this Wayback Machine snapshot of the deviantART gallery. Google image search surprisingly scored a hit for that small thumbnail. It wasn’t a Twitter link, but this post on JoyReactor’s MLP section which also has the full resolution.
I dug through an old hard drive and found that I’d downloaded a YouTube song that used the image as a background. Did a cropped screen capture, plugged it into Google’s image search. That scored a hit with someone that had put it on their Twitter at full resolution, but uncredited. Lucky, because it was one of only two images that were retrievable.
As a similar return, there was also an image that was clearly an alternate version with Applejack. Checking that out, it gave me a YouTube video on Equestria Daily, and following that to the source, I got the artist name in the details as a DeviantArt link. Dead gallery on DA, but plugging that name into Derpibooru, it turned up as an old alias for the name I credited in the tags. That alt version with AJ also happened to be uploaded here under the new name.
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