Something that has driven me insane over the years is when a creator of a piece of media is revealed to have been a horrible person, and then everyone acts like it was never good in the first place.
A major example of this is Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling is a horrible fucking person, but the books she wrote didn't become an international phenomenon for no reason. Yes it has it's flaws, but we can't pretend like it's objectively terrible media now that we know the person who wrote it is, in fact, objectively terrible.
A further example of this is the mashup tournament community. A huge part of the lost media is because there are thousands of small projects cropping up and then dying out all the time. Another huge part of it is acting like the value of art is proportional to the moral standing of the artist, even though that's fucking ridiculous. There's a tournament out there called Ultimus. It predates even Mashup Week, and involved a lot of the same people. It was cancelled due to drama that I was not around for, and such cannot give a faithful reaccount of.
Thankfully, all the tracks are still available on SoundCloud. The same cannot be said for the extensive lore and creative writings around the project. The Tumblr account that hosted all the writings has long since been deleted, and Internet Archive only has a handful of it's pages. Most of the Google Docs are also gone, privated or also deleted. There are a lot of people who would say this is for the best. People who are, otherwise, conservation-minded let pieces of history slip through the cracks in the name of keeping a moral high ground. And it fucking sucks, dude! Ultimus specifically was a project with a lot of passion behind it, and was also a huge piece of history. It's existence had an impact on Mashup Week: Megamix, the single most prominent tournament of our time. It's frustrating that stuff like this, or stuff like the lost DOATK x Exhibition Gallery Crossover track, are just gone forever. Because people think it's better to let it dissapear based on the circumstances surrounding it rather than it's merit as an art piece.
Where's the line? What gives us the right to decide what does and doesn't deserve to be saved? Why are we out here burning "morally corrupt" metaphorical books? Does nobody else find this slope to be extremely slippery???