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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 months ago
[–] raoulraoul@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

One of the internet's biggest secrets hiding in plain sight. The VHS Vault: now celebrating their 7^th^ year of curating color bloom, drop-outs and questionably legal content, all in glorious 720×480 NTSC video! 🤣

All kidding aside though, thanks, @minnix! 👍 There are some definite gems amongst the…uhmm…non-gems?


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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

A long time ago (like pre 2000) most regions in the US had public broadcast stations where anyone could submit and air their videos, uncensored. I think typically for free or maybe there was some nominal charge. Usually it started at 10:00 p.m. or midnight when they'd start playing weird stuff like this. Sometimes it was porn, sometimes nasty gory stuff, but I think a lot of times just people who wanted to go on and complain about something.

Weird times

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh man, your non-gem is what I love. This one got me. It's just the kind of guy I imagined who would be teaching something like this, a dude with "hidden knowledge" that takes every opportunity to share that knowledge with young women who are doing everything in their power to stay away from him 😂

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Greg Turkington really went all out this time.

[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev 1 points 5 months ago

If the IA wasn't on such shaky ground due to current legal trouble, I would love to categorize the Vault into sections that never got a release past VHS because there's a lot of content on there that's available on DVD/Blu-Ray as well. I would just be afraid my efforts would be in vain if they eventually sink.