#also cheered when the defunctland guy commended ppl who create archives for niche things!!

[naberiie]

defunctland and hbomberguy’s latest videos are extremely good examples of what processing archivists (like me) do when we write collection finding aids: my past week and a half was a deep dive of research very similar to what these two did to track down the composers of the disney channel bumper and oof sound, respectively. it was extremely satisfying from an admittedly selfish standpoint to watch these videos and then see all the comments commending them for the work--because, yeah, it is a lot of work, and a lot of the time its for little collections or things that don’t normally snag one’s attention, but you get so, so invested in the research. and at the end, someone’s life or work gets spotlighted! someone who was slipping out of cultural memory! whether in a finding aid that only a few people will read, or in a video that millions of people will watch. i’m proud to do this cultural memory work and it is kind of thrilling to see ‘big name’ youtubers do the same kind of thing

#i'm not going to list the ppl whose finding aids i've written bc i'd be doxxing myself #but my god the people i've researched and written about #pioneers in all fields #and they were almost forgotten #also cheered when the defunctland guy commended ppl who create archives for niche things!! #yes!! community/citizen archivists who lovingly collect and catalog things they're interested in are INVALUABLE #lam tag #i'm actually presenting on the research i've done for my most recent collection next week LMFAO