Post by derekthebigandgreat on May 9, 2024 at 4:35pm
For context on Shaun Sullivan: He's a retired Vyonder who made a lot of grounded videos based off of copyrighted characters, especially Little Einsteins and Little Bill and Dora.
For context on Shaun Sullivan: He's a retired Vyonder who made a lot of grounded videos based off of copyrighted characters, especially Little Einsteins and Little Bill and Dora.
That isn't really "Most Viewed Lost Media" and yet-another case of "Least Viewed Lost Media". I feel like this thread is getting locked in a few hours.
"Dagi Bee" is one of the most followed YouTube creators from Germany. She started uploading videos in 2012 and launched a second channel in 2014 for vlogging, gaming, and reaction content. For example, in one video she played Mario Kart with fans.
That second channel was originally named "BE a BEE", later renamed to "Dagi & Eugen" (2020-08-31). Most videos were still up at the end of 2023 (2023-12-22).
At some point after that, the channel was renamed to "Eugen Kazakov" (real name of the husband of Dagi Bee) and all videos were purged. It appears that Dagi gifted that channel to Eugen who then decided to take everything down.
Pretty much none of those videos, even those with over a million views, have been preserved. Over a million eyes saw those videos, yet no traces exist today.
"The internet never forgets" - oh, yes. It forgets constantly.
The Dutch channel "Top Dingen" (later renamed to "Top Things") was wildly popular in 2018 and 2019. It contained lots of prank and rage compilation videos, some with tens of millions of views. Sadly, much of its history has been wiped for unknown reasons.
As usual, the Wayback Machine gave up after the first attempt to archive the video. Thankfully, it succeeded in archiving at least some of the other videos.
Teenage alcoholic drinking is both legal and culturally accepted in Germany. This video, "10 types of drunk girls! + outtakes" (translated title) was a comedic video from November 2013 on how teenage girls behave under the influence of alcohol. It wasn't insulting, just comedic. But she took it down for reasons explained below.
As of writing, this video exists nowhere on the Internet. The original was taken down by the uploader and no one has ever republished it.
Title (as of 2015): 10 ARTEN VON BETRUNKENEN MÄDCHEN ! + Outtakes Title (as of 2014): 10 ARTEN VON BESOFFENEN MÄDCHEN ! + Outtakes
What was at one point the most viewed video by Dagi Bee (channel page archive) is now lost media. Dagi Bee (Dagmara Ochmanczyk) was a wildly famous German YouTube channel in the mid-2010s, but her formerly most viewed video is now lost to history because she purged much of the content she made together with BibisBeautyPalace (Bianca Heinicke).
Dagmara did this because, from my understanding, she felt it was unfair that Bianca surpassed her in subscriber counts after she (Dagmara) helped her (Bianca) come to fame. Bianca did not do the same and her corresponding video is still up and well. Credits to her for this.
Now, I am not a fan of Dagi Bee, but a wildly popular mid-2010s video does not deserve to be lost to history.
Given that Dagmara built her core audience around beauty and make-up tutorials (meaning teenage girls), probably not many of them are archivists who thought about saving it, not thinking about the possibility that it could be taken down. The possibility of videos being taken down was so unfamiliar to them that they commented "you deleted my childhood!" to Julian Claßen (Julienco, who has an overlapping fanbase because he is the former partner of Bianca Heinicke; they broke up in 2022) after he purged much of his content (source).
Last Wayback capture before takedown is from April 2016, indicating over 5M views. The video was never archived.
