Lukewarm Soda.

Hi everyone (sorry for the mass tags for idv, it’s important), if you haven’t heard from idvtwt, there has been a boycott planned due to Identity V’s use of AI.

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It’s not this, it’s that

Even AI generated names

If you’re familiar with AIslop on TikTok (the Reddit stories), then you have heard Marcus Thorne and Sterling mentioned a lot

We as a community have had enough

Please stand as one against AI as it doesn’t belong here. Do not log into the game, don’t buy echoes or merch, don’t watch coa, we need to send a message.

I was like I have to draw the monk today

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It is inaccessible via streaming in that specific region. We still have it. It exists. On DVDs. On Blu rays. In digital libraries. In archives. On streaming in other countries. In the hands of thousands of people who own physical copies. Nothing about that is lost.

This is especially baffling coming from the Doctor Who fandom, a fandom that contains one of the most well known and well documented cases of actual lost media. There are episodes of Doctor Who that genuinely do not survive. No master tapes. No home recordings. No official copies. Entire stories that exist only as audio, telesnaps, or reconstruction efforts because the video is gone.

That is what lost media means.

Calling New Who lost media because it is not currently available on a streaming service in your country muddies that distinction and makes the term meaningless. It erases the reality of material that is truly gone and cannot be recovered in full.

There is a real conversation to be had about accessibility, regional licensing, and the increasing fragility of streaming based media access. But that is a different conversation. Inconvenient to access is not the same thing as lost.