Post by gordon on 10 hours ago
Back in 2006, YouTube had a feature that could display an automatically generated list of the most subscribed channels, but it was removed a long time ago.
While browsing archived YouTube pages, I came across a YouTube channel called "whiteflower". What we know is that it was the eigth most subscribed YouTube channel as of May 2006.
This channel is listed on this archive of the list of most subscribed channels as of May 2006, with over 100,000 views and 731 subscribers, making it one of the most popular YouTube channels of its time. This was at a time the most subscribed channel, Smosh, had around 3000 subscribers.
I don't know whether view counts on that page are the total video view counts or the channel page view counts. But either way, this was infront of over 100,000 eyes, so there is a slight chance someone has saved something, or at least remembers it.
The channel page of whiteflower was never picked up by the Wayback Machine. Not even its profile picture was picked up. All we have prior to the termination is this redirect, and the target was not archived. The next archive after that from August 2009 was from after the termination. So all we know is it was terminated at an unknown point between May 2006 and August 2009.
The next archive of the list of the most subscribed channels is from June 2006, but by then, all channels listed on the first page had already exceeded 800 subscribers, so it doesn't tell us whether whiteflower was already terminated or just surpassed. I also couldn't find any of their videos in the most viewed video list.
It is unlikely that the videos of whiteflower will ever be found. People didn't save videos back then, did they? But could we at least find out what this channel was about? What it was terminated for?
While browsing archived YouTube pages, I came across a YouTube channel called "whiteflower". What we know is that it was the eigth most subscribed YouTube channel as of May 2006.
This channel is listed on this archive of the list of most subscribed channels as of May 2006, with over 100,000 views and 731 subscribers, making it one of the most popular YouTube channels of its time. This was at a time the most subscribed channel, Smosh, had around 3000 subscribers.
I don't know whether view counts on that page are the total video view counts or the channel page view counts. But either way, this was infront of over 100,000 eyes, so there is a slight chance someone has saved something, or at least remembers it.
The channel page of whiteflower was never picked up by the Wayback Machine. Not even its profile picture was picked up. All we have prior to the termination is this redirect, and the target was not archived. The next archive after that from August 2009 was from after the termination. So all we know is it was terminated at an unknown point between May 2006 and August 2009.
The next archive of the list of the most subscribed channels is from June 2006, but by then, all channels listed on the first page had already exceeded 800 subscribers, so it doesn't tell us whether whiteflower was already terminated or just surpassed. I also couldn't find any of their videos in the most viewed video list.
It is unlikely that the videos of whiteflower will ever be found. People didn't save videos back then, did they? But could we at least find out what this channel was about? What it was terminated for?
