How I wish that someone who works at Google could just release all those historically relevant deleted videos to the public. (They are likely not allowed to.)
Iván has already lost a channel in 2016. It was first disabled in February and then terminated in July of that year. (story)
Besides his Angry German Kid series, he also made some spin-off content like "Top 15 AGK parodists" (also long gone, as you might have guessed).
The possibility of having an entire channel with all its content nuked due to strikes on a tiny fraction of videos makes YouTube hostile to long-term archival. A wise man once said something along the lines of "Google is an archive in the same way a supermarket is a food museum".
In the 2000s, there was a cartoon series where the protagonist was an orange-haired female and they had a van that could transform into a rubber boat with the press of a button.
Does anyone have this music video in 720p or 1080p?
In September 2020, the rapper "Nuke Bizzle" published a music video where he bragged about committing fraud (news article). The original music video (URL with comment archive) was taken down in October 2020.
The Wayback Machine attempted to save it, failed, and then never tried again because it does not try after the first attempt. (Error: "We have not been able to archive the video associated with this YouTube page.")
The original 1080p version of this music video appears to be completely lost. All that remains is a low-quality 360p reupload with the Apple Assistive Touch icon in the upper right corner.
It appears that whoever had the 720p or 1080p version didn't bother re-uploading it because this reupload already existed, not realizing it is only in 360p.
It would be great if someone could provide the untouched music video in 720p or 1080p.
I didn't lock it thinking it was derekthebigandgreat, I locked it because it was attracting spam. I tend to lock threads that are derailed. I'll unlock it though.
Teken (Thomas Kevin) was a comedian who started with generic game review videos (2012 channel) before rising to some popularity in 2015 for his videos criticizing major personalities on the German-language YouTube, namely Dagi Bee and Bibi's Beauty Palace, which got several hundreds of thousands of views.
He referred to Dagi Bee as "internet trash" in this video (unavailable, comments from October 2016), and criticized Bibi (Bianca) for begging for donations on the streaming site "YouNow" even though she already earns well from her millions of subscribers and her "Bilou" branded shampoo (URL, unavailable).
In the next year (2016), he also had a dispute with Tim Heldt (KuchenTV), who back then had around 400K subscribers and is still active today with over a million subscribers. (Video from KuchenTV's point of view, April 2016.)
At his peak, Teken reached over 25000 subscribers. As of May 2024, after around six years of inactivity, his subscriber count declined below 18000.
Some time in 2016, he purged his early videos until 2013 (those with the orange thumbnail, before he switched to purple thumbnails, September 2015 video list).
In 2017 and 2018, he faded into irrelevance again. His final videos have usually reached between 500 and 1500 views (April 2019 video list).
Some time between April 2019 and August 2019, he tossed his entire YouTube channel down the memory hole.
The Wayback Machine doesn't have even his most popular videos, so it is highly unlikely to have any of less popular ones (not checked yet).
Last Edit: May 25, 2024 at 10:25pm by gordon: added "critic" to title
The spammer "derekthebigandgreat" made an irrelevant post in the "Most viewed lost videos" thread, which happened to become the first post on page 4.
A user who saw this apparently assumed that "derekthebigandgreat" created the thread because it was the first post on the page, failing to notice that three pages before it existed, and subsequently locked it.
Could anyone please have a look at it and possibly re-open the thread? Thank you.
I will baptize myself with white Monster Energy when this thread gets locked.
In seriousness, I think there is SOME value in archiving this sort of stuff. It just needs to be in the right hands. I feel this sort of content can be used for the purpose of researching and studying ways to counter dangerous ideologies. Can't fight the enemy without knowing it, right? Also I will genuinely do that Monster Energy shit if this gets locked, which I bet WILL happen.
Or alternatively we can just keep away from his Russia/Ukraine-related stuff and focus on the other content (e.g. filmmaking, life stories, the stuff he purged in November 2021).
Last Edit: May 25, 2024 at 8:30pm by gordon: clarified
I going to break this brief argument just to say that the Most Viewed Videos thread got locked due to the spam beast known as derekthebigandgreat once again spam a Goanimator channel that got deleted and I said it's more of a least viewed video, which killed the thread. Sorry about that gordon , but it's too much to handle a spam account.
Thanks for acknowledging the mistake. Now, how do we get it unlocked? For now, I have messaged co, who locked it.
If it isn't , I think it's a little too sensitive of a topic for these forums. I don't want this place to become the hot spot for preserving the ramblings of violent militants.
We do not necessarily endorse the content we preserve. We do it to document the history. While his points of view were controversial, he certainly wasn't violent as far as I am aware.
Politics are controversial by nature. That's the whole point of it. People disagree in perpetuity. There will never be "one size fits all" solutions. But I am not interested in his political videos.
His war reporting is boring anyway compared to his non-political content until 2021 (life advice, dating, partnerships).
Last Edit: May 23, 2024 at 5:45pm by gordon: clarification
I don't think so. His videos are usually not even NSFW, let alone NSFL. Pretty much all of his videos contain him speaking infront of a camera and jump cuts.
Have you watched any of his videos? Can you name at least one example?
I'm referring to the content contained within, I think extremist ideology would very much count as being NSFL.
It's not graphic content. Something that would surely qualify as NSFL is Logan Paul's forest video, but some guy rambling infront of the camera? Nah…
Where he discusses sexual topics, it would at the very most reach NSFW, but not NSFL by far.
This might be a little too NSFL for these forums, I think.
I don't think so. His videos are usually not even NSFW, let alone NSFL. Pretty much all of his videos contain him speaking infront of a camera and jump cuts.
Have you watched any of his videos? Can you name at least one example?