Post by gordon on 2 minutes ago
Heldt is a German commentator and comedian whose main YouTube channel "KuchenTV" (meaning "cake TV") has nearly 1.2 million subscribers as of writing. He rose to fame due to his edgy/dark sense of humor in his early days, and by commentating on many subjects in his "Kuchen Talks" series, including news about Internet drama and major events such as the GermanWings crash back in 2015.
As of writing in late 2025, he has made almost 1200 episodes of Kuchen Talks. I regularly watched his videos in the mid-2010s, but I have barely followed him in recent years.
He also had his share of controversies, such as running on stage with a friend, both in animal costumes, at a 2016 event (more on that), as well as a fake crying video in 2021 over relationship drama (reupload).
In May of 2018, his channel was temporarily terminated after three strikes on older videos (Mumkey Jones style), but reinstated a few hours later (his explanation). Following this temporary suspension, he got frightened and took down many of his older videos that could be remotely considered offensive.
One of those three videos that received a strike was a video from 2016 titled "10 unglaubliche Orte wo keiner/kaum einer war ft. TrollwutTV" (original URL) (translated: 10 unbelievable places where no one / almost no one has been), which is lost media now.
YouTube shows it as private, not taken down for terms of service violations, meaning he must have taken it down manually after his channel was reinstated. From what I remember, its view count was in the medium six digits.
There is a good chance that someone has saved it, given that this video was released at time where Heldt was at the height of his popularity as a result of the Videodays drama and a dispute with Miguel Pablo. His video "Bye Bye Miguel Pablo!", originally titled "Miguel Pablos Beerdigung" (Miguel Pablos funeral), is still there, and with over four million views one of the most viewed videos he ever released.
"10 unglaubliche Orte ..." was the first video he released after this, only two days later (September 22, 2016). It is listed in this archive of his "videos" page. The thumbnail is a stock photograph. Many of his earlier videos were just stock photograph slideshows with him speaking.
Another lost video, far less known, is the 47th episode of Kuchen Talks, released in 2014. It was a critique of an individual named Carmen E. (URL unknown). Back then, he was in the five-digit subscriber counts, so it was just petty drama. The only proof of its existence was that he mentioned it in the Kuchen Talks episode after that, 48 (reupload, original comments).
