Date: 02/03/25
Mood: stressed
Listening to: The art of dying - Gojira
Iconic for a reason.
I have had enough!!
I am tired of LIFAD/MiG era being memoryholed. I don't even understand how it's so hard to find these online. That many photos from this era aren't shared, posted, or archived well. I have had enough of it though. I have separated this and started organizing these myself on this page. Behold my defiance about this. I refuse to let people wipe half of this era away. I will start uploading chunks of it on my own. I will mainly be focusing on images I feel are missing, neglected, or not nearly as noticed instead of everything ever.
You will look at Paul in his mid-40s and you will like it. I won't stand for it otherwise.
I am seriously so feral about this right now. I hate Pinterest and am livid about the loss of PB, Tinypic, Imageshack, etc. This is hell. I know a site like RW made a gallery but it's the basics and mostly fixated on live show and official images. Plus, it's missing a lot even within that category limit. I mentioned problems like this before when I suggested how to find images to encourage people to learn to stop using IG or Pinterest for everything. It truly is a massive problem after PB, et al were taken down. How in the world do I get this fandom to organize a substantial gallery? Let's get stuff off Instagram. Boycott IG being terrible. Sadly, I am a woman who likes to look at the rhythm guitarist and I can't contribute images of anyone else lmfao. I got like a few hundred of everyone, but barely enough.
I figured out the other day that Yandex has indexed me for my R+ keywords and photos. Cool. That explains so much about my higher than average views the past like two months. Search queries related to photos from Yandex appears to be the culprit. I told you in my image tips page, that yeah Yandex actually is pretty decent at finding R+ photos about half of the time. Their crawler especially seemed to like my photo compilation pages. Gee I wonder why. My higher counts is probably random reverse searches or general image seeking persons.
Imagine being a woman inside a fandom about six men and barely looking at media of them outside of a shallow pool when actually a very great ocean exists. Because that IS the state we're in. This would make many 2012 era fandoms on tumblr cringe very hard and be absolutely baffled how/why this is happening. It's sad and mainly caused by social media disintegrating communities, centralization to Pinterest and IG, and the rot of old websites that hosted images. Additionally, Rammstein is a band that has always suffered from artificial scarcity via media being suppressed by even their own management. We have to do something about this because I've had enough.
If you want more like this for other time ranges please see: rare_jpegs which is the original post that spawned this idea. If you are here via search engine for a photo that isn't shown... please go to my gallery sub-domain! to find it. I promise it's uploaded there 😇 Updated August 5th with a new selection of obscure rare ones!!
General
M&G / pre-show
After-party / Clubs
Hotel / Airport / Street / etc
