Me and My Friends Was Found, BUT....

After 8 years of searching for one of the most famous pieces of lost media in modern times, a trail of old comments recently unearthed paints a much different picture about the topic's fate.

Special Thanks to Mr. Bones, SewerReviewer, Harvey, Ber, and Alex for the help in documenting this information.

[PrincessLunaBrite]

Why does it always seem like lost media for children's shows is being guarded by the mafia or something?

[MemExp]

Lmaooo people are seriously gatekeeping a kid's show pilot 😭

[TheAbundancePath]

Knowing that Janice Burgess (the creator of The Backyardians) passed this same year and someone is just hoarding her work makes me sad.

[minidwarf]

It’s absolutely insane to me that there’s an antagonist to any lost media search

[rainbowcrown]

Imagine the kind of person who power trips over being a mod of **checks notes** the Backyardigans Wiki.

[cabbusses]

Hoarders have been the bane of my existence for a time, but hoarders who would gaslight people searching for the media are a new low.

[atomixdragon]

I know this might be dramatic, but the fact that the creator passed just months before the truth was discovered is so frustrating. If she ever wanted to look back on her life's work, knowing that the early version of her most successful venture was being held hostage by greasy nerds probably would've sucked more than it simply being lost to time.

[cameronffoulkes]

Found the lowest level of power someone can have before going mad with it

[Legoluigi]

Imagine telling the people looking for Clock Man a decade ago that this community would one day fight against a shadow cabal of Backyardigans wiki admins.

[myspareaccount]

I googled the wiki and underneath the title it says “stop gatekeeping lost media and grow up” and I couldn’t be prouder. I’ve got it screenshotted just in case

[aagahaaaaaghhhmonkey]

The craziest part of this video is the line "2016, 8 years ago"

[YoMamaBih]

Imagine going through the efforts, as a grown man, to put energy into a scheme to throw off other researchers and gatekeep the pilot to a preschool show. This shit is ridiculous bruh.

[shoutsuo]

Gatekeeping and corruption in the backyardigans community of all things is CRAZY

[KRcanondaisa]

all i wish for now is for someone completely unrelated to all of this to go "oh yeah here it is lmao" with their own copy and watch the hoarders seethe and mald over their lost value

[Greendreamcastcontroller]

This story has now become FAR more interesting than the pilot itself. Kids cartoon lost media searches are always so much more insane and serious than even like nsfl stuff, it’s wacky.

[Infindox]

I have no sympathy to people who hoard lost media and don't share it or gatekeep info. There's a lot of games that will rot eventually if we don't get it, and I assume that movies and shows are like that as well. Having a *whole community* gatekeeping is maddening and sad.

[jnetegizi]

The last thing that Janice Burgess saw from us before passing was of us acting like animals over her pilot designed for preschoolers. That's disappointing

[AwesomeDrawer]

The fact these mfs could potentially be gatekeeping the pilot like it contains proof of 9/11 being an Inside Job

[rickandmortyfan]

why does this rabbit hole go so deep? Are we entering the fucking Backyardigate?

[FatboySmough]

This whole thing sounds like it could be the plot of a Regular Show episode with how ridiculous it gets.