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52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted

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Re: 52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted

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Post by barrysteve »

It's probably time to start saving the videos you like if you haven't already.

I still remember when Key and Peele's whole catalog (or a lot of it) was available on youtube back in 2015-2016. For a brief window of time.

Some of my favourite songs with 10s of millions of views have been taken down. Many niche videos don't get reuploaded.

No guarentees that youtube will keep your unique or exclusive videos publicly available. Every video is fair game for deletion at any moment.

Re: 52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted

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Post by wongarsu »

Twitter used to provide all Tweets to the Library of Congress for archival, until the library decided it wasn't worth the effort to continue adding that much data. I'm not sure who would be in a position to archive YouTube for the future. Does the Internet Archive make snapshots?

Re: 52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted

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Post by CrazedGeek »

whoomp12342 wrote: post #5

aka 52% of youtube from the era where it was fun have been deleted. badger badger badger badger mushROOM MUSSHROOOMM!!

That specific video actually predated YouTube itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badgers_(animation)

And it’s still up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI

Re: 52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted

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Post by moonshinefe »

remlov wrote: post #4
AinderS wrote: post #2

Youtube also does its best to prevent you from downloading videos, to leave no record of the past.

If you’re comfortable in the terminal the following works great for archiving: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

I had issues with youtube severely capping my download speeds using youtube-dl, but had success with https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Re: 52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted

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Post by FrenchDevRemote »

barrysteve wrote: post #3

It's probably time to start saving the videos you like if you haven't already. I still remember when Key and Peele's whole catalog (or a lot of it) was available on youtube back in 2015-2016. For a brief window of time. Some of my favourite songs with 10s of millions of views have been taken down. Many niche videos don't get reuploaded. No guarentees that youtube will keep your unique or exclusive videos publicly ava…

>I still remember when Key and Peele's whole catalog (or a lot of it) was available on youtube back in 2015-2016. For a brief window of time.

Is there a lot of stuff missing on Comedy Central?

I've discovered them on Youtube(I'm european), it seems like there is a tooon of content from them, is it just a small part of what they did?

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