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Nov 8, 2020 at 9:30pm
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Andy6400
Nov 9, 2020 at 1:21am
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I have something you could add to this list. A dude on Reddit can't find a video posted by Alex Clark which showed JaidenAnimations face before her face reveal. The link to this post is here. I would appreciate you adding this to your list.
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Andy6400
Nov 9, 2020 at 1:22am
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Link is mess up... Here is the URL https://www.reddit.com/r/theodd1sout/comments/jql5i2/ok_i_remember_this_vlog_from_alex_clark_that/
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Nov 9, 2020 at 7:33am
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Update about the last video:

I have found the storyboard thumbnails in my browser cache!

Imgur URLs: imgur.com/a/Ua0cKHk / imgur.com/R0OcvXQ

Embedded image:
“Can Sir Cigarettes - 50s Commercial” – Storyboard (seek bar hover preview thumbnails)

Also worth noting: The uploader's channel (ID URL), created  2007-12-16, had 4 subscribers in January 2020 and now 10 subscribers in November 2020. Strange.

I wonder whether they ever had other uploads. If YouTube had not removed the video counter on the watch page (see this section in "List of features removed from YouTube"), it would have been known.
Where in the browser cache was it stored? I want to know in case I ever need to find a video by similar means. 


For me (using Mozilla Firefox on Linux), it is in ~/.mozilla/Find it in command line:

find ~/.mozilla/ -type d -name cache2

In Windows, it should be located in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile folder name]\cache2 in a folder named cache2.

A proprietary software to read the files: www.nirsoft.net/utils/mozilla_cache_viewer.html

I hope there will be open-source software soon. (Maybe there is, but I am not aware.)

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Also, I found the Can, Sir video on Vimeo: vimeo.com/211675153. So it's not lost.


Wut?! Somehow, Google, Bing, Yahoo and Duck.com failed to find it for me. Makes me wonder why only they privated it from YouTube.  

How did you find it?

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Lord7
Nov 10, 2020 at 3:49pm
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Hello there.


Here is a lost 3D intro. Maybe someone has a clue where to find it.

These screenshots are from an “I'm back” intro, which was probably from a template, but I can no longer find its original source.





Original video URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lrtp6b-g1o

I could not find the original template.

  • Uploader's name at that time: MineconGamerHD (original URL)
  • The music was similar to Mike Williams – Candy (at 1:22).
  • At the beginning, there was a voice whispering “I'm back”. At the same moment, 2D text “I'm back” appears at the bottom, which is gone after less than a second.
  • Length: 13 seconds.


I wish I had downloaded that, but the comments are still archived.




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Nov 10, 2020 at 4:03pm
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Dathlu 'da Dona intro and Da 'di Dona episodes. Such a shame why S4C deleted them.
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Nov 10, 2020 at 10:02pm
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Where in the browser cache was it stored? I want to know in case I ever need to find a video by similar means. 
For me (using Mozilla Firefox on Linux), it is in ~/.mozilla/Find it in command line:

find ~/.mozilla/ -type d -name cache2

In Windows, it should be located in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile folder name]\cache2 in a folder named cache2.

A proprietary software to read the files: www.nirsoft.net/utils/mozilla_cache_viewer.html

I hope there will be open-source software soon. (Maybe there is, but I am not aware.)

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Also, I found the Can, Sir video on Vimeo: vimeo.com/211675153. So it's not lost.
Wut?! Somehow, Google, Bing, Yahoo and Duck.com failed to find it for me. Makes me wonder why only they privated it from YouTube.  

How did you find it?

Given that I usually use Chrome, that probably won't work, and I have used a cache viewer which hasn't really turned up anything similar.

As for how I found it, I searched '"can, sir" commercial' on Google. 
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Nov 11, 2020 at 3:48pm
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Another hilarious video that is now private:


Windows Vista automatic blue screen by Philip Kaplan.

A Lenovo ThinkPad running Windows Vista Home Basic automatically crashed with BSOD after a few seconds untouched on the logon screen.

I wonder why anyone would take such a video down. The IAWBM (Wayback Machine) has saved the watch page, but not the video, which makes me wonder which criteria a YouTube video must fulfill for archival.



In 2014, Samsung posted an video on their Instagram page @samsungmobile to advertise their water resistance. (Original post URL)

But in 2017 or 2018, Samsung has unfortunately erased all posts older than early 2016 (Galaxy S7) from their Instagram page.

Contents of the deleted video:

It is raining outside.

Some one (man with black jacket, as far as I can remember) put a miniature umbrella with a toothpick stick on the top of their non-water-resistant mobile phone (which looks similar to a Samsung GT-i5500) to protect it from the rain, to be able to take a photo.

Then a woman (likely with a yellow jacket and brown hair) standing next to her takes out her Galaxy S5 (a white one, as far as I can remember) and simply takes a photo.

At the end, there was a text similar to “there is an easier way to keep water out of your phone: IP67”.

The background music was a remake of Kingston Town by UB 40, but without vocals and with an instrument similar to echoes from Yahama electric pianos such as the YPT-200 (instrument number 111; user manual).
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Nov 11, 2020 at 3:51pm
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For me (using Mozilla Firefox on Linux), it is in ~/.mozilla/Find it in command line:

find ~/.mozilla/ -type d -name cache2

In Windows, it should be located in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile folder name]\cache2 in a folder named cache2.

A proprietary software to read the files: www.nirsoft.net/utils/mozilla_cache_viewer.html

I hope there will be open-source software soon. (Maybe there is, but I am not aware.)

Wut?! Somehow, Google, Bing, Yahoo and Duck.com failed to find it for me. Makes me wonder why only they privated it from YouTube.  

How did you find it?

Given that I usually use Chrome, that probably won't work, and I have used a cache viewer which hasn't really turned up anything similar.

As for how I found it, I searched '"can, sir" commercial' on Google.


I suggest you to create an archived copy of the profile folder so you can (possibly) extract data any time later.

However, because Chrome was made by the same company as YouTube, I doubt you will find the thumbnail cache. But you might be able to find some URL data.

Sadly, the recursive wildcard search by the Wayback Machine is broken for YouTube particularly.
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Nov 11, 2020 at 10:47pm
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They might get reuploaded in the future, and I think the uncensored versions are still up on Patreon, but Elvis the Alien had to private most of his "People Ruin" series after its latest entry got mass-flagged by viewers for whatever reason. Using the Wayback Machine and YouTube, I've found all but 3 of the videos which stayed up for a while (the exceptions are Zelda, Cuphead, and Pokemon), and I haven't looked for his 2 most recent videos in the series which weren't up for very long. Does anyone have copies of these episodes? Someone on YouTube claimed he did but hasn't shared them yet.
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Nov 12, 2020 at 9:30am
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They might get reuploaded in the future, and I think the uncensored versions are still up on Patreon, but Elvis the Alien had to private most of his "People Ruin" series after its latest entry got mass-flagged by viewers for whatever reason. Using the Wayback Machine and YouTube, I've found all but 3 of the videos which stayed up for a while (the exceptions are Zelda, Cuphead, and Pokemon), and I haven't looked for his 2 most recent videos in the series which weren't up for very long. Does anyone have copies of these episodes? Someone on YouTube claimed he did but hasn't shared them yet.


I can totally relate. These unreasonable deletions are slowly starting to annoy me so much that I might just start downloading every video I watch (or at least most videos, especially those I deem likelier to be deleted), most in lower resolutions to save space storage.

This would allow me to re-upload copies of every deleted video I watched (ideally to at least two platforms).

Let's assume a 480p video is 20MB on average, and 5MB per 240p video.

A €/$/£100 HDD with 2TB could house around 100.000 videos in 480p and around 400.000 videos in 240p. More videos than I have watched in my life.

Maybe I should do the same with Wikipedia articles. (Side note about Archive Team: While I highly appreciate their work to preserve history, including saving YouTube videos, sadly many of their archives appear to be hard to browse and search, some parts even being locked (inaccessible), such as their SoundCloud archive. I also remember having read reports of proprietor Jason Scott Sadofsky sadly banning several productive users for valid constructive criticism. I found one again: here. One should be sceptical of any organisation which handles criticism poorly.)

File names should contain title and video IDs. And maybe uploader's name and upload date. YouTube-DL should have parameters for this. Also, obviously, metadata in JSON format.

And the same possibly for other platforms such as Dailymotion, SoundCloud, Instagram.

Had I done that since childhood, I could have rescued at least hundreds of videos from oblivion.

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Gx07
Nov 12, 2020 at 9:11pm
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Nov 12, 2020 at 10:44pm
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Sony Xperia Germany purged all their videos in 2016, including those Xperia Z2 commercials with the Helen Jane Long - Frog film music.
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Nov 14, 2020 at 6:28am
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Are the videos of the Cacaman available anywhere online?

One video I have always been trying to relive was a parody of Justin Timberlake's 'Sexyback' done by the Cacaman. It was a video that went viral at about 2007. While looking for it, I have found stills from the video and some GIFS, but I can't find the whole thing yet. One thing I remember specially was that it actually showed you a toilet full of crap in a Taco Bell stall.

I also found an interesting blog  (IDK why link redirects to this thread but its: cyberpunkramblings.me/quirky/cacaman/cacaman.html) why the Cacaman deleted his videos and he has a KnowYourMeme (rejected) page (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/the-cacaman) but I can't seem to find any mirror of the actual video online. He had 2 other songs as well, one called 'Crap Dat' (of Soulja Boy's 'Crank Dat') and another one named 'Aint Got Much of a Smile' which it seems was not poop related. And a family trip video. I can't find them.
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Nov 14, 2020 at 8:42am
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