Bumping this thread up because maybe it’s Scaredy Squirrel. There’s a canary who is the boss of a store, but I dint know about any weather changing episodes.
It's defo Scaredy Squirrel, the episode is "Nutter's Almanac"
Just saw your post.
It's a match to what I remember!
Thank you very much, tdkfloyd.
Added [found] to title.
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It is baffling how no one bothered archiving even the channel page in the 9 years since that November 2009 Wayback capture, after it was likely infront of over a hundred thousand eyes.
In 2015, the German channel "Thesen 24" released a mini-documentary on Andreas Lubitz, the pilot who deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 9525. It was viewed over 120,000 times, but is lost media now.
Video "THE DANCE ♥" from December 2005 (video ID: UhQ-uQeyCmE), available until at least March 2021, yet lost now.
This mysterious video was in a playlist called "Obscure/Forgotten 2005 YouTube Videos", so there is a chance someone who has downloaded the entire playlist has preserved it.
Title and description screenshot:
A rough guess is that it contained something sexually explicit, but it still went undetected for 15 years. According to YouTube policy, mildly sexual videos get age-restricted, not completely removed.
The channel (xjen13x) is terminated, meaning either they had more videos that violated YouTube policy or this one video was bad enough to merit a channel termination.
Or perhaps a stricter YouTube moderator was at work. It is well known that they handle edge cases (videos in the grey area of policy) inconsistently. It couldn't have been that bad if it was not taken down for 15 years.
I refuse to believe that a video that was on YouTube for almost the entirety of its existence was not preserved by anyone.
Last Edit: 8 hours ago by gordon: added video ID for search engines
Windows Vista Automatic Blue Screen (from 2008) was a video of a ThinkPad running Windows Vista Home Basic showing a lock screen, then after a few seconds, without the user doing anything, it switched to a blue screen of death.
I found it funny back in the day. Sadly, the channel owner took it down and has abandoned their channel. The video is not archived.
I don't understand why channel owners take down such harmless videos. It didn't contain anything embarrassing. At least not embarrassing to the channel owner, only to Microsoft.
Last Edit: 11 hours ago by gordon: added year, more details
This screenshot from a video by YouTube historian Timeworks shows an unknown video from June 26, 2005. The video ID is unfortunately nowhere visible in the video, and is omitted from the search result.
ZarbexBlog is a commentator who first joined YouTube in 2014. From 2015 to 2017 made dozens of videos discussing German Internet culture. (video listing as of February 2017)
At some point in 2017 or 2018, he abruptly took down all of his videos.
In 2018, someone re-uploaded several of his videos onto a channel created for this purpose, "Zarbex Reupload". Unfortunately, last year, they cowardly decided to take down all videos but one. His pinned comment in the remaining video (dated 11 months ago as of writing) explains that it was not requested by Zarbex but a voluntary decision, to let Zarbex "move on from his past" with his "cynical style". What a cowardly move.
During the 2020 lockdown in Spain, someone filmed DJ Albert Valls blasting music from his balcony to simulate a concert. The original video was online for three and a half years and is now nowhere to be found.
By the way, do you have any idea why the original was deleted from YouTube?
The error message reads "This channel does not exist." So it does not appear the channel (Adrián Perez) was removed for violating YouTube terms of service, so it might have been a voluntary deletion. Do you know?
There was a 3D cartoon movie mixed with a music video.
That 3D cartoon movie contained a male character with a circular hole in his chest (you could see through it like in this Mark Rober video but without blood or anything creepy), signifying that he is "looking for love" or something like that. The characters did not have human-like proportions as far as I remember.
A YouTube channel named "Agent 47" (later renamed to "Apocalypse 47") (SocialBlade data) mixed movie scenes (real-life, not animated) with popular music. Although this qualifies as fair use, their channel was terminated in late 2019, leading to the loss of all videos.
I remember that channel contained music video mixes for "Syn Cole - Feel Good" and for "Elektronomia - Limitless".
A few days after the 2014 Elliot Rodger rampage, Tyrone Magnus made three videos reacting to Rodger's videos. These videos were on YouTube until at least 2021 (!) (well after the termination of Rodger himself and Mumkey Jones, which both occured in 2018, so it seems it was unrelated to that), yet no one re-uploaded them yet and the Wayback Machine doesn't have any of them either.
There was a cartoon movie with a story similar to "Groundhog Day", meaning the protagonist woke up every day and experienced a similar timeline of events, but sometimes something occasionally changed.
In that cartoon movie, the male protagonist was seen waking up (bed was in upper left corner of room from viewing angle), then there was something like a time lapse where he went to work then came bad and them went to bed, repeating many times. There was also a scene where he got a woman pregnant and later the child was shown in the video as far as I remember.
That cartoon movie had no nudity in it and the animated characters did not look realistic. They looked somewhat like the characters by Steve Cutts.
Last Edit: Mar 12, 2025 at 10:11am by gordon: clarification
During the 2020 lockdown in Spain, someone filmed DJ Albert Valls blasting music from his balcony to simulate a concert. The original video was online for three and a half years and is now nowhere to be found.
Enjoy. I love the forums more than Discord, because Discord is not indexable which makes it a horrible place. I only was able to find the video because you posted the original filename. Thanks for sharing! Take care.
Thanks dude!!!
And yes, I agree. Discord is epheremal and also JavaScript-walled.
Because in 10 years nothing you built today that depends on JS for the content will be available, visible, or archived anywhere on the web.
In 2011, the "German traffic safety council" (Deutscher Verkehrssicherheitsrat, or "DVR") launched a traffic safety campaign with a series of traffic safety films, called "Sag' nein zu Hubert" ("say no to Hubert"). (archive of campaign site, archive 2)
In this short film series, a man named Hubert goes hitchhiking and fools his drivers into unsafe behaviours. The series was available on YouTube until at least 2019. (2018 archive with thumbnails)
Now, the channel shows a 404 error and any video shows the generic "This video is unavailable" error message. There is no indication as to why the channel vanished, but it appears either the DVR voluntarily took it down, or YouTube purged old channels to save space. This channel was over eight years old at that point.
Last Edit: Feb 3, 2025 at 7:24pm by gordon: fix spelling, + archive 2
It appears the earliest Wayback captures are redirects to the mobile version of YouTube. Since it is JavaScript-based instead of HTML-based, meaning the browser downloads a program that then loads the content instead of loading the content directly, it becomes much more difficult to archive.
The desktop edition of the website is JavaScript-based too (it's called "polymer"), but it appears the developers at the Wayback Machine put more work into making it able to be archived and displayed.
Nowadays, the Wayback Machine is able to sometimes archive YouTube polymer pages, but it wasn't in 2019.
Before YouTube switched to polymer in August 2017, it was HTML-based so archival was easy (except comments, which were AJAX-loaded).
Comments were HTML-based until 2013. This is why watch pages prior to 2013 contain visible comments. Back then it was lightweight and easy to archive, not the bloated mess of today.
Last Edit: Sep 29, 2024 at 9:04pm by gordon: polymer clarification
I remember having watched this show at some point, and it commenced in 2014, so there is a slight possibility this is it, but I could not find any pictures of this show containing any shopping mall.
Can you name an episode which contains a shopping mall?
