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I feel like Everyone Knows That would've already been solved if not for the ridiculous amount of trend-chasers who jumped on it. If you look it up, you get a thousand videos with the most outlandish theories I've ever heard, from people who know nothing about lostwave, media preservation, or lost media search etiquette. I've seen people unironically saying it sounds like Madonna, so they should look into her producer being responsible. I've seen people claim it's a hoax because they can't find it with Siri. It's on tiktok now. That's all I need to say. I feel like if it was like the smaller searches I've taken part in, where everyone in the discord or the reddit or the tumblr tag or the google doc had a united goal, and picked through every possible lead as a team, it would have been identified by now. Instead, everyone's basically waving pitchforks around in a field and screaming. There are dedicated searchers out there, but I feel bad for them, because there's so much static and white noise from people who probably had their video script written by AI. Also, note that I said identified, not found. Sometimes, there is no magical, studio-produced, full-length song. Sometimes you find where it came from, and... that's it. There's nothing more. That's all that was ever recorded.
Sorry to ramble. I just really hope all the people making this song impossible to identify stay with it, hoping for some full-HD version they'll likely never get. If one of my smaller searches got EKT'd, I would lose hope and leave entirely. This isn't spreading the word about the search, it's spreading misinformation. Everyone knows that, but no one knows what they're doing.