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Sep 22, 2021 at 11:17am
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I'm checking up on Ultimatekai's channel again and her channel name is, once again, different. It also says she's in Algeria for some reason. I can only hope that she wasn't hacked because that would be unfortunate. I know one guy I followed years ago, Joji, had his channel presumably hacked and the only thing that would be posted were things in Korean. As of posting, her channel is still empty. No videos. No playlists. No community info. No description or comments. Absolutely blank.

I'm going through the blogs I follow on tumblr, and after scrolling for about fifteen minutes, I found hers again and it took another ten minutes of scrolling to find what I was looking for to know it was her. Unfortunately, she set her DM system to where only blogs she follows can interact with her and I take it she deleted all her personal photos or made them private since she got an ask alluding about one of them, but I can't find anything like it. So, I, unfortunately, can't ask her directly if she knows anything about her channel and I don't think who she follows is public either. I don't want to pry her about anything, but it's sad just not knowing, y'know? I'm more so hoping that it's just a case of someone getting older and outgrowing the platform, wanting to move on and be super private - evident by her purging her blog of her personal photos. But, at the same time, I really, really hope that it isn't because of a safety issue and if she has a stalker since one of the last few videos she posted before she deleted it or made it unlisted was really personal and dark.

Yeah, I do wonder what happened to ultimatekai. She was one of my favorite YouTubers back in the day. She deleted her Twitter as well, which makes me think she went dark intentionally and there's a 50/50 chance her account on YouTube either got hacked or she changed the name and location to make people think she was hacked so they'd leave her alone.


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Sep 22, 2021 at 4:20pm
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I once saw a replica video of this funny video (note: I am a non-smoker) where some guy with possibly below 200 subscribers reenacted it.

It had far more downvotes than upvotes.

I also archived its funny comments (linking to original too) into Archive.Today, but also its URL are lost.

Found! [Link; published by Andreas Böhler (22 subscribers) on 2017-01-04; statistics as of post time: 7185 views, 21 likes, 96 dislikes, 11 comments]

Indeed, here [short URL] is a watch page archive from 2018-08-29, but it did not save comments, because without the "lc" (likely stands for "linked comment") URL parameter, it stopped saving comments since November or December 2017 due to some technical change on YouTube's end. The comment URL format changed around that time, where linked comment replies no longer use UNIX time stamps after that dot notation, but some random character strings, though the links with UNIX time stamps worked until at least 2019, possibly until "disable_polymer=1" became ineffective around mid-2020.


In the early 2010s, there was a Google Chrome advertisement (or GIF animation?), where a deer ran and quickly spawned tabs from its rear, likely to advertise Chrome's alleged ability to stay smooth with so many tabs open.



The actual channel of the Angry German Kid is Hercules Beatz, later renamed to Hercules AGK.

I remember having seen a video in 2018 which appears to be gone, even in the earliest video page archive from 2019-03-06 (short URL). It was a diss track response to BibisBeautyPalace's not-well-received Wap Bap song, but not by AGK (Norman) himself, but rather a promotion of one of his friends.

I just wanted to document this video's vanishing. Maybe someone else remembers it too. Possibly never reached 10000 views.


Appears to have been TMK - BibisBeautyPalace DISSTRACK (Official Lyric Video) (prod. by Markezi), which indicates "This video is unavailable", suggesting manual removal by the uploader.
On YouTube, some time after a manual removal, the "tombstone note" changes from "This video has been removed by the uploader" to the aforementioned, making the video appear to have never existed in first place.

Its video description references a channel named "Hustler Kanal" (428 subscribers, "/c" URL), whose featured channels link to a separate channel named "TMK" (1.43K indicated subscribers), which is a name used in the title of that deleted video.


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Sep 23, 2021 at 6:27pm
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I'm checking up on Ultimatekai's channel again and her channel name is, once again, different. It also says she's in Algeria for some reason. I can only hope that she wasn't hacked because that would be unfortunate. I know one guy I followed years ago, Joji, had his channel presumably hacked and the only thing that would be posted were things in Korean. As of posting, her channel is still empty. No videos. No playlists. No community info. No description or comments. Absolutely blank.

I'm going through the blogs I follow on tumblr, and after scrolling for about fifteen minutes, I found hers again and it took another ten minutes of scrolling to find what I was looking for to know it was her. Unfortunately, she set her DM system to where only blogs she follows can interact with her and I take it she deleted all her personal photos or made them private since she got an ask alluding about one of them, but I can't find anything like it. So, I, unfortunately, can't ask her directly if she knows anything about her channel and I don't think who she follows is public either. I don't want to pry her about anything, but it's sad just not knowing, y'know? I'm more so hoping that it's just a case of someone getting older and outgrowing the platform, wanting to move on and be super private - evident by her purging her blog of her personal photos. But, at the same time, I really, really hope that it isn't because of a safety issue and if she has a stalker since one of the last few videos she posted before she deleted it or made it unlisted was really personal and dark.
Yeah, I do wonder what happened to ultimatekai. She was one of my favorite YouTubers back in the day. She deleted her Twitter as well, which makes me think she went dark intentionally and there's a 50/50 chance her account on YouTube either got hacked or she changed the name and location to make people think she was hacked so they'd leave her alone.
I'm going to guess that she changed the name and dipped because I vaguely recall one of the named she changed it to was her then (or still current) tumblr handle that she's since unlisted. I also think that she removed archive access to it and almost all her pictures. I don't like to delve into conspiracies or fearmongering, but I really hope she went dark again because she just wants to move on from the Youtube scene like other longtime veteran Youtubers of the time did. Karen (Spricket24) did this and almost all of her videos are gone and she summed up why just about everything was private or deleted in the most recent video she posted some time ago.

In a vlog Erin made maybe in 2019 or around the start of the pandemic, she got unusually deep and very personal about a toxic, violent relationship she had - which was tonal whiplash compared to a vlog that came out just before or after this that was in her typical sense of humor style talking about crushing on Bill Skargard as Pennywise, and is just otherwise on brand for her. The vlog was generally received as positive with fans and others coming to her defense to offer her support, but after a bit, it went private and then fell to the ether. There's a small itch in the back of my head that feels that the vlog opening up about her trauma would explain why a lot of her other stuff is gone and will likely not see the light of day again. But again, I'd rather not linger on that idea too much.
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Privated video by John Swan:
Is Logan Paul A SOCIOPATH? - An Exploration Of His Insanity


It was uploaded on 2018-01-06 (few days after Logan Paul's disaster), 9m38s long, and was online until at least 2021-01-10. I remember having watched it, and I liked it. It analyzed crazy actions by Logan Paul, such as his jump from a bridge into a river, and entering forbidden areas by climbing over a fence.

The takedown might be at least remotely related to his controversy in February, a very difficult month for him. He might have taken it down as a result of intimidation, shame, and similar, though I see nothing wrong with that particular video.
Keep this in mind: Whenever an individual is subjected to public controversy, any content on their social media outlets should be considered ephemeral and endangered.

I rescued this from Bing's search engine web cache (original cache URL / short URL). Sadly, because YouTube uses crappy AJAX loading for comments instead of HTML preclusion since 2013 (and they removed ([2]) their non-AJAX “/all_comments?v=” subpage in January 2016), all discussion under that video is memory-holed, though similar videos exist out there, such as by Derek Van Schaik, whose early videos are partially memory-holed as well, such as his late-2017 analysis of Patrick Bet-David/Valuetainment. I only have a rough memory of it.
(Edit: I discovered this July 2020 watch page archive (short URL) that contains comments, thank's to Archive.Today's brilliant AJAX loading support!)

Looking at this December 7th 2018 archive of John Swan's channel page, then with 1883 subscribers, this is not the only video he removed from his stash, but it used to be his second-most popular, indicating 106.548 views, only second to Introducing the iPhone Xpensive - Parody, which had 139.600 views back then.

As a side note, here is an observably true quote by archivist Jason Scott (source):
Google is a library or archive like a supermarket is a food museum.

Here it is in the Wayback Machine.
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Sep 5, 2021 at 5:48pm AiiRasaguest said:
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I have a playlist on youtube that I call childhood videos, which are basically just videos I watched on youtube since I was young. Some days ago I noticed a video was made private and I kept trying to remember what was it about, and I think I figured it out

I think the video was Mario singing Tik Tok (the song by Kesha not the app). The thumbnail was the official artwork from New Super Mario Bros and it had Mario and Bowser both singing the song. Some lyrics were modified to fit in some Mario references. I’m kinda sad because this was definitely a nostalgic video for me

The URL: m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOmdUswaWd4
Don't know if you found this one yet, but if not, I've uploaded it to archive.org

archive.org/details/super-mario-tik-tok
I just saw this now but omg thank you so much for the reupload!
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On June 7th, 2020, all videos on the channel "ACTUALLY HAPPENED" (channel ID, 3.49M subscribers as of writing) were abruptly taken down (privatized). The channel is owned by "TheSoul Publishing" from Russia, the same entity that operates "5 Minute Crafts", "BRIGHT SIDE, and other viral channels.

Two videos speculating about the takedown are "What Happened To Actually Happened?" and "How Actually Happened Got Actually DELETED".

One of their videos from 2018 or 2019 was a story about a teacher and a student having an inappropriate relationship, then the teacher lost his job due to getting caught. It contained the background music "Dreams Become Real" by Kevin MacLeod. But it might have been a video by the channel "My Story Animated" which was founded in early 2019, copying the concept but now being much more successful (7.32M subscribers indicated as of writing), as their video "I Regret Cheating On My Boyfriend But He Wont Forgive Me" uses that music too, at 02m06s, and "My Mom Humiliated My Black Boyfriend But Dad..." at 02m26s.



I remember having watched a video in 2014 or early 2015 which had a "Christmas Remix" (making use of Christmas bells) of the Chain Chomp music track of Mario Kart Double Dash. The video was recorded using a camera pointing at a Panasonic television, showing Chain Chomp power-up in the "Sherbet Land" stage. I can't remember which players were used.

In late 2015, I could not find it again. Now, it came back to mind.




There was a GoAnimate parody with Dora pirating Windows 7 Ultimate on her laptop in her room. Then, he got caught by his father, who as a result decided to humuliate Dora at school by downgrating her laptop to Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, and then showing it to her friends at school.



On December 21, 2018, the YouTube channel named "1" (located at "/user/1", created on 2005-10-02) uploaded the four-minute video My #FortniteBlockParty Submission - Aztec Airways !, which had over 10000 views as of May 2019 (archive).

A watch page + comment archive from 2019-03-06 indicates 6302 views.

It was privatized at some point, and no archive of that video exists, only a thumbnail from a a channel archive (2019-01-02). The "Community" tab suggests that they had at least 1500 subscribers (this was the threshold back then, as far as I can remember); otherwise it would still be "Discussion".

The video appears to have been some random Fortnite video which is rather irrelevant on its own, but it is strange for the one and only YouTube channel located at "/user/1" to post a video after thirteen years. Whoever created that channel back then was presumably over the age of 13, meaning they were at least 27, presumably well into their 30s, and quite possibly own other channels. And almost certainly, that channel had videos prior to that. Only they and YouTube developers with server file system access can know.




As shown in this Reddit comment, there is another lost video by "Simplicissimus": "Von grauen Avataren und der Unterwelt des Internets".

It was published on 2015-04-28 and on air until at least September 12th of 2018, the date of its the final AutoShared tweet. An early watch page archive from three weeks after upload (2015-05-20, video not archived) shows it is among their earliest videos. Their channel was initially named "Simplicissimus 2.0" and only had 51 subscribers back then. The video had 324 views, 22 likes, 2 dislikes.

As of October 27th, 2017 (suggested videos of this watch page archive of the video rescued by archivist redditor "NimboGringo" – thanks much!!!, short URL), it had 118,579 views.



In late 2016, the German YouTuber "KuchenTV" (whose main channel passed a million subscribers in 2020 or 2021) converted his third channel (originally registered as "LeIKuchenBlogX") to "DreamCake", telling stories from his dreams. At some point, likely in 2018, all videos with stories of his dreams were privatized.

Here (short URL) is a February 2017 archive of their channel feed page when his dream story videos were on air.




I also stumbled upon "Yung Noli" from "BenjiBrothaz", who uploaded a "Noli Days" series in 2016 and some music tracks. They are not that relevant, and I don't even like their style much, but noting just for documentation purposes. Other archives: Watch page with a playlist from their channel, comments of music video "Wont let us in", one of their tracks. Their "Noli Days" series contained trips through the city at night, showing off with weed smoking, and producing music. Surprisingly, they had a Windows laptop (Windows Media Player 12 was visible somewhere), contrary to what one would expect from status symbol chasers (Apple).

As far as I can recall, I once also saw some Archive.Today capture from 2017 of one of their videos, though I might have confused with a different channel. I will add it here should I find it.



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Here it is in the Wayback Machine.


Thanks much. I love it whenever the Wayback Machine rescues videos, regarding they don't archive all videos, as that would require enormous bandwidth and storage, meaning there is a luck factor. I don't know how they determine which videos to archive.
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There was a video called "Donald Duck Farts the Gorilla" that was taken down by a copyright strike. It was just the cartoon Donald Duck and the Gorilla with "flatulence sounds" added. That's it, no other edits, so it wouldn't quite qualify as a YouTube Poop. It sounds stupid, but some of the sound effects were perfectly placed.

Another one that was taken down was an actual YouTube Poop of the SpongeBob Christmas special. It starts with SpongeBob sneaking up on Sandy by rolling in his helmet, where it plays Chamillionaire ("They see me rollin'..."). Then when Sandy plugs in her Christmas lights, there's a WTF Boom. The most notable thing about it was it replaced various lines with Patrick's "a writing stick!"
Examples:
"There's no words on this WRITING STICK!"
"SpongeBob, I ripped my WRITING STICK! Could I have another one?"
"What did you wish for, Patrick?" "A WRITING STICK!"
And the most unexpected:
Squidward: "Oh, I feel like a... I feel like a... I feel like A WRITING STICK!"

Other details include:
Sped up, high pitched sections, like when they sing "Santa's comin' tonight, tonight" and when Squidward slaps his butt in SpongeBob's face.
When Squidward takes a picture of SpongeBob and tells him to say "Santa Claus," SpongeBob instead says "Die!" (lifted from Ganon in Link: The Faces of Evil).
It then shows the photo of SpongeBob, with sad music playing.
This is probably not what you're looking for, but I found this which kinda is a bit familiar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-GNkcQkv2k
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Hello everyone!
There's a couple of videos (clips/soundbytes, actually) that I've been really curious about, and figured that this would be the right place to inquire/document.  
The first one is this dubbed clip of a KFC commmercial:

I've researched it before and found the OG commercial (KFC Fender Bender, www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBLHU-u4aGY),
but I am wondering (due to the poor quality of all versions on YT) if there is a longer dubbed work that it originates from.

I have a similar fascination with the "YOU PEE GOOD" soundbyte from this YTP (YouTube Poop):

About 11 seconds in you can hear the cleanest sample of the byte that is readily available on YT. 
 
Interestingly, there is a clip in that video that also mentions "drinking pee" and appears to be heavily associated (video edit wise) with the clip of Pete (the Disney character) from the "A Goofy Movie" film in which he is wearing pink undergarments.  This lead me down quite the YT/Google search rabbit hole, my main lead being the possibility that the "drinking pee" clip is from a parody fandub of the film, and (hopefully) "YOU PEE GOOD" would be in it as well.  

In summary these are my main findings from that search chain:
1. this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfjDNZh796c (a fan commentary on the film with masculine voices very similar to what is heard in the "drinking pee" clip)
2. the popularity of both "YOU PEE GOOD" and the concept of fan-dubbing scenes from "A Goofy Movie" both have coinciding patterns. 
    a. Searching on twitter for the phrase "YOU PEE GOOD" returns results as early as 2008, but mainly from two distinct periods, first from 2011-2013 and again from 2017(ish) to present.  
    b. Searching Google for "A Goofy Movie Parody Dub" returns results as early as 2009, but mainly from two distinct periods, 2011-2013 (🤔) and again from 2018 to present.  
3. Furthermore, ytp broly is originally from around 2012 or 2013.  The video I linked is a reupload by the original poster of the video.  

COINCIDENCE?? I THINK NOT!! (lol)

But yeah I think I'll be giving up for now, because it is likely at this point that the original version of the video I'm looking for has been privated by now, and probably never downloaded by anyone outside of a couple of people, including the creator of "ytp broly".  

As far as the KFC video goes, the video I linked is the earliest post of the clip I can find on YT.  Thinking it might be a crosspost from Tumblr or maybe even 4Chan (I don't f**k with either of those haha). 

Now that I think of it, "YOU PEE GOOD" might also be a 4Chan original but I doubt it.  

Hope this helps anyone that is looking for either of these elusive clips.

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I apologize for the weird formatting since I'm posting this from my phone, and this was too weird for me not to share. Of course, I'm months late to the party, but what else is new.

Anyway, in light of the Munger dormitory situation at UCLA Berkeley, I came across a video of Youtuber Swell Entertainment discussing it and she opens it by mentioning a previous video about another shittily designed building and a "bounty". I looked for the video and was just in awe by how deep the rabbit hole for the building, 432 Park Avenue, went.

By the end, I was barely holding on when she mentioned that, according to the person who runs the 432 Park Avenue hate TikTok, there was a short film produced about it and nobody outside a few people from the building had seen it. However, we know it exists because of production floating around and it is said to have a budget of over $1,000,000 and has weird bits like Charlie Chaplin and Spiderman at a party, a ballerina, Powerpoint presentation looking animations, and King Kong. Amanda (Swell Entertainment) made a pinned comment on the video confirming that the short film was found and it exists. The original upload by one source is gone, but another Youtuber,Bee Charma, uploaded a scaled down version of it where it can still be seen now. Here's to hoping the full screen version comes back.

Sometimes, things that are expensive...are worse.

Swell Entertainment on 432 Park Avenue: youtu.be/AiK9gUlnyno

432 Short: youtu.be/_Xnue_0Gyas

Edit: I'm finally at my computer so I got to do more digging. One of the first results I get for it is Amanda's twitter where she says the short was found and the person who tipped her off wanted to remain anonymous. However, in the comment thread, someone put a link to the video. It's on a real estate website called Macklowe Properties, and all it's weird glory is out in the open. It's hosted on Vimeo, but it's private and I'm unable to rip it. But, if anyone would like to try, then godspeed. I'm trying to do it as we speak, but I'm having trouble with the script.

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One of my favorite Youtubers TotalBiscuit once had a video essay called "I Will Now Talk About Buggy Games For Just Over 20 Minutes" but it wasn't up for long before he took it down due to realizing he made a mistake in the video, he intended to fix it but never got around to it before his tragic death, fortunately I found out you can still play the video via the Wayback Machine:video
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Lol i've been on a kinda old YouTube nostalgia marathon for a few weeks and one thing i noticed is that a series of Transformers fanart videos i used to watch as a wee lad has been almost been entirely fucking deleted for some reason except for one. 

I've thought about contacting the original uploader of those videos but judging by their recent uploads they've become a batshit insane fundamentalist christian conspiracy theorist so i decided not to.

For now i'm giving these Wayback Machine screenshots and the one surviving video in this series.






The surviving thumbnails i found on the Archive.

Here's some archive screenshots of the first video:
web.archive.org/web/20090106201507/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5eaNDx15Y&feature=related
web.archive.org/web/20100817095115/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5eaNDx15Y
web.archive.org/web/20150710153414/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5eaNDx15Y
web.archive.org/web/20190804143703/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5eaNDx15Y&gl=US&hl=en
Apparently the first video survived til 2019 so i'm guessing it was deleted in around 2020
Here's an archive of the fourth video:
web.archive.org/web/20171020123458/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Dei7wgUuw&gl=US&hl=en

And for good measure here's the only surviving video from this series:

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A lost YouTuber that I watched not too long ago that was named squaremations but also went through several name changes who deleted all his videos one day. Though someone did think to archive all the videos left when the announcement video came but that still left some lost videos like camp entries. That channel also continued to record videos that Squaremations (now TheLameSquare) deleted without archival or reuploading. Warning: this video (and the others but they won't be linked) are recorded on a screen recorder and lack audio
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/o7s5w0/squaremations_is_gonna_delete_and_reupload_in/&ved=2ahUKEwix38ve8pj3AhXqzIUKHUSGA20Qjjh6BAgJEAE&usg=AOvVaw2exi6Him0EwlB9rBm2GCkn
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I remember watching missedHARDCOREGABBER's tribute to deceased artists who made songs in these genres as the username suggests in 2020. Since his first channel has gone down in late 2020, he hadn't reuploaded this video since. Since he's still active, I might ask him.

I don't have the link to the original video, sadly.
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Hello. I wasn't sure I was supposed to make a new topic for this but I'm glad I found this one beforehand. I'm looking for an old animation of Mario Kart that was on YouTube 10-15 years ago but I can't find it anymore. I don't know if it was also published elsewhere. It featured a Mario Kart race between Wario and Waluigi vs Donkey Kong and Diddy if I recall correctly. The video had an "underground" (like in GTA) with loud rap music, Peach (or Daisy I can't remember) giving the start of the race with a flag and then they tried to sabotage each other to win the race. At the end of the video one of the duo of the racers crashes into a wall or something. I also recall a koopa troopa and a toad with black sunglasses at the beginning of the video. If anybody knows about it I'd be glad to hear it from you and maybe we can find the video.
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