alt text: "the state of the animation industry"
"you're pirating that show? don't you wanna support the creators?" "I AM the creator."
"haha the only way I can show future employers my work is to send a link to a bunch of pirated copies of it haha what a nightmare haha"
I watch a lot of "lost media" discussion channels.
There's been a lot of lost media searches where the people looking for the thing suddenly found a crucial hint when someone who worked on the project posted a 2.5 second clip of the thing in question in a video cv / showreel.
Expect a lot of that in the future. Except about media that probably didn't even get released at all in the first place.