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"Datastream" (a pseudonym) makes videos experimenting with Microsoft Windows, but sometimes also other operating systems like Mac OS and Linux. For example, he tests on how little RAM an operating system can run and how the performance degrades.

However, he regularly unpublishes videos, sometimes even within days after uploading.

If you look at this October 2025 archive of his "videos" channel subpage, many of those videos are no longer up.

Examples for videos he took down include:

• What if you replace Explorer.exe with Calculator on EVERY Windows Version?
  
• What if you Delete the Trash Bin on Your OS?
  
• Trying Unreleased Windows Versions

I have no idea why he does this, but my closest guess is that he wants to repost them at a later point to regain views.

If you have any of his lost videos, please upload them somewhere and link them here.

An idea in the back of my head is to use the Internet megaphone, search engine advertising, to try to reach people who have copies of sought-after lost media, and are willing to provide it.

I haven't done it yet, but I am considering to do so.

The advertisement could look similar to this:

or:


Followed by contact details.

Probably, Bing and DuckDuckGo are more useful for this than Google, especially if the piece of lost media in question is a YouTube video.

I highly doubt Google would allow requests for lost YouTube videos to be advertised on their search engine, given that they are opposed to people (even Premium users) owning permanent local backups of YouTube videos outside their ecosystem. The "downloading" feature of YouTube Premium doesn't store the video as a file in the download folder like one would expect, but instead in a proprietary format and in a locked directory only accessible to the YouTube app itself, making it useless for media preservation. (source 1, source 2).

They should actually be glad about people having local copies. If people watch from a local file rather than streaming from YouTube each time, it reduces the server bandwidth usage at YouTube. But it seems YouTube wants people to pay for any form of background playback or ad-free playback. Recently, they took taking technical measures to block background playback on third-party mobile web browsers (source).

But the main reason for downloading videos (as mp4 or webm file, no locked-in nonsense) isn't background playback or circumventing ads. It is preventing the loss of media. Those other things are just side effects.

Therefore, for YouTube videos, one would have to resort to alternatives like Bing and DuckDuckGo for asking for lost media. DuckDuckGo loads advertisements from Bing from what I understand.

Have you ever used search engine advertisements to ask for lost media? Do you have any experience with it?

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From the description of YouTube’s Creator Responsibility Initiative by YouTube Creators:



From the video:



This almost certainly is a reference to Mumkey Jones.

Comment section of a holymoly2207 video!

archive.today/2019.10.13-174251/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gbLrG8ZT3k&lc=Ugwg-ZdHFWPV9gOMQY54AaABAg

But it only contains one of the four comments.

Do you know what exactly violated the guidelines? What was in their videos that violated the guidelines?

Could it be that your activity is set to auto-delete after six months?

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.