Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know it's silly but I sometimes feel anxiety at the prospect of that enormous bank of knowledge getting lost in some way or another (e.g. Google deciding it wants to do something else or some disaster). It is truly invaluable to _humanity_
youtube is doing it's best to now hobble search functionality on youtube, which is already a disaster from a discoverablity perspective. not to mention the huge amount of content that gets deleted due to claims of all kinda of nonsense and other bogus reports and faulty automated detection.
It's often all but impossible to find videos from a few years ago. Wanting to show your now adult children a viral video from a decade and a half ago, nowhere to be found.
Sometimes it feels like you're gaslighting yourself down a memory hole.