Learning that the guy who made “future gen. consels wii2 ps4 xbox720?” Now works on Fortnite, has a semi-active social media presence, and got married last year has genuinely put a smile on my face and warmed my heart. I’m glad that man is doing so well, he deserves it.
must-see PMVs that changed the world (feel free to add more)
Frontier Psychiatrist - Jimmy Lee
Killer Queen - Wooshy
The Starting Line - Ty4ce
Overtime - My Little Collabs
Don’t Stop - The Collaboratory
Stamp On The Ground - FluttershyElsa
You’re Gonna Go Far Kid - (Despite being arguably one of the most famous PMVs ever made, this is a reupload and I legit have no clue who made the original)
La Da Dee - TheeLinker and Heir-Of-Rick (technically not a true PMV but so classic it had to be counted)
Everybody Wants to Rule The World - TheLightLeavesThee
So the recent strange-aeons video made me nostalgic. And while Songify was iirc post-2010 (therefore too recent for straenge's video series), I was still trying to dig up a particular video of theirs that's lived in my brain for ages now. It's the songified Rainbow Sponge Lady. Sometimes my brain will, out of nowhere, play the line "I squeeze and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze a virgin. AUGH." I know that a rewatch wouldn't live up to my memories, but I still had to try, right?
...the video does not exist
I have found two pieces of evidence that it did once exist, but that's barely anything for a classic Songify.
ID: two screenshots. First, a Facebook post by "Full Frontal MMA," dated 1 July 2015. The post includes a link to a YouTube video entitled "I Love To Wiggle - Sponge Lady Songified!" and subtitled "The Rainbow Sponge lady sings a song about wiggles! A song called I L..." The subtitle cuts off, and the preview image is greyed out, indicating that the video is unplayable. Second, a tumblr post by "side-of-fries," dated 25 Dec 2013. The post reads in all caps "They songified the rainbow sponge lady; my life is complete." The post includes an embedded YouTube video, which has no preview image, instead stating "Video unavailable: This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated." End ID.
One Facebook link from 2015, and one Tumblr embed from 2013, neither of which work anymore. I can't find reuploads on YouTube or Vimeo. Songifies like the one of the eHarmony cat lady have reuploads everywhere. The Rainbow Sponge Songify doesn't seem to be Waybacked and it isn't listed in any Internet Archive "classic YouTube videos" uploads (though I haven't watched archived video compilations without listed contents - it may live in one of them). I can't even find any other posts where people mention the video's existence.
Does anyone have other tips for finding this video again? Anyone have it downloaded onto an old laptop, re-uploaded unlisted to their YouTube, anything? I know it existed, but it seems to have just ... evaporated into the void of the internet.