Unfortunately, that's what I suspect- the omission of those years from opening post from the 2017 thread makes me believe that those database crashes that happened before 2018 probably resulted in the loss of those threads. I don't recall the Fakes thread specifically but I know that many of us from the mod team who went through those database crashes in vBulletin were shocked by the number of big threads that were lost when that happened.
The Garden of Memories threads were recovered from Google cache or Archive.org and recreated. I've used those tools to recover linked images and other files. That would be the only option to find content from threads that were deleted.
That’s such a shame. From my experience, Wayback usually only seems to capture the first page or two of a thread; the 2010 one you linked had over 200 pages.
Thanks so much for your help, KaraBulut. Very much appreciated.




























