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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).
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Dec 3, 2025 at 5:26am
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From the description of YouTube’s Creator Responsibility Initiative by YouTube Creators:

We know that more than 99.9% of our creators are awesome, and we welcome all types of creators, from the family-friendly to the edgy.


From the video:


True or false? A creator can get demonetized or suspended from YouTube, even though their videos didn't break community guidelines. What do you think?

If you said "true", you're right. And although it is rare, you may have seen it in recent years.


This almost certainly is a reference to Mumkey Jones.
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Jul 31, 2025 at 8:23pm
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CrizRaging was a comedian who was good at playing anger. Some of his videos have been re-uploaded, but others are lost to history, such as "LEAFY RAGE FAT KID RAGES OVER LEAFY LEAFYISHERE SMASHING TABLET" from 2016 (Filmot metadata), where he destroyed a tablet because YouTube recommended a video by Leafy.

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My channel is connected to Gmail, but I saw that the oldest activites date back to December 2024, which means for whatever reason these results have been wiped automatically??

Could it be that your activity is set to auto-delete after six months?
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May 27, 2025 at 8:52am
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5 million views.

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.

screenshot of watch page as of 2016

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.

Tweets generated by YouTube AutoShare (a feature removed in January 2019) shows it was online until at least July 2016.

Even a video with 5 million views is not safe from the Internet memory hole. Now we know no video under 5 million views is safe.
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May 23, 2025 at 2:31am
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ExtremeAnimator is an early and long-inactive Angry German Kid parodist. His most viewed parody, "Angry German Kid sees himself on youtube" from January 2007, is sadly lost to history. It has 71 thousand views in this Wayback capture from November 2007, but I am pretty certain it had over 700,000 views at some point. Some of his other AGK parodies are still there, with hundreds of thousands of views.

There was another "Angry German Kid sees himself on youtube" by Jaro445 (Jaroslav Jančík) from July 2008. As luck would have it, it was picked up by the Wayback Machine! It was taken down between 2016 and 2018 according to Wayback Machine data. Probably by the uploader.

As of writing, it is completely deleted ("not available"), not privated. Around 2017 and 2018, YouTube's error messages did not distinguish private videos from deleted videos, so it was not possible to know whether a video was privated or deleted. But YouTube went back to distinguishing it.
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May 13, 2025 at 6:20pm
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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?
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The videos was 100% downloaded to proof that it was spliced
I hope so. But even then, the metadata (description, upload date) are likely lost.

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.
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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.

Title: Andreas Lubitz Vorgeschichte und Tatmotiv zum Germanwings Absturz (archived watch page as of 2016-08-05).

As of December 2016, that channel was terminated. It was still terminated as of 2020. Strangely, it's back again, but under a different name, Nina Miriam, and with all videos purged.
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