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Filipino artists whose works were featured on our daily random thread covers.
Let me make one thing perfectly clear:
It would be foolish to assume that we do. So many shows and events are happening during the "free time" we're recording and there's only one VCR and TV. Although there is evidence of people (usually rich) that have several VCRs recording on different TVs at the same time, that's an outlier — and even then, they're still bound to miss a large chunk of what's out there.
What archivists personally have is typically dependent on what interests them. I don't want to speak for Jojo Bailon, but I could surmise from his uploads that he's into musicals, variety shows, and PBA games — and, not surprisingly, his uploads are commercials, bumpers, idents, before, around, and during any of those programs. Dann Garcia is a 24 Oras/GMA superfan and the bulk of his content are of that show and its surrounding commercials.
I wouldn't expect VOTIII to have, say, Dragon Ball or Yaiba, as anime don't appear to be in his purview. Nor would I pester Dann Garcia to release Epiderm A or Fake Doomsday ad as it predates the year he began capturing.
That said, the issue with requests isn't so much that we have or don't have — it's more like requests are annoying and offensive in general. It shows a lack of appreciation (whether existing or imagined) of what the archivist is doing for free and out of their own schedule and convenience. Imagine uploading an ultra-rare clip that the internets spent years finding and you finally put an end to the quest by putting it out there and the comments you get are "BoSs SaNa StAiNeD gLAsS NaMaN". Yes, we could always hide and ignore it, but it's done. We've seen it. And there's like 200 more comments and messages like that. And then some would handwave your reactions as being sensitive or childish and it just compounds things even further.
