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I noticed we didn't have a dedicated YouTube lost media thread, so I decided to make one. I will start with some lost media. I recall one example is most of the early videos by a basketball YouTuber named JimmyxHighroller. He is pretty popular now, but he first blew up back in 2017 and 2018 and had tons of videos I used to watch. Then the guy that made his background music decided to strike all of his old videos, and now only a few of them exist in the form of YouTube reaction videos. I also see many viral videos I remember from the time, like this video by a guy named Blake Coatley, who killed himself. It was his final video, and I remember it had millions of views. Now it only exists on a reaction channel called BucketheadNation because YouTube removed the original video for "community guideline violations." "If you go through this channel, BucketheadNation, or any other reaction channel, you will notice so many videos would otherwise be lost media if it weren't for BlackDudes Reacting to them, and it reminded me that I needed to make this thread to help find YouTube lost media.

Help find and discuss YouTube lost media in the YouTube lost media thread.
 
Filmot is your friend. You can search captions, select a bunch of channels including deleted ones, and in the Metadata tab you can search video titles and sort by date, language, time, view count, even if it's unlisted. I've tracked down a whole bunch of stuff from there, it's a fantastic tool and you VILL support it.
Honorable mention goes to YouTube Video Finder, where you put in a video ID and it automatically checks a bunch of archives to see if it was saved anywhere. Even if the video itself wasn't downloaded there's sometimes metadata to go along with it.
And of course, nothing beats just downloading the shit yourself and hanging on to it if you suspect it's gonna get taken down. HDD prices be damned, the Internet is not forever.
 
There was a lot of autistic and chaotic but honestly quite enjoyable song mashups made specifically in 2016-2020 for some reason. A lot of these involved shit that you would expect like FNAF songs because they were made by online autistics. Most were bad but there were some banger ones, there was even a rap battle mashup that i remember liking it. As you would expect, most of these got lost due to copyright.

Actually, now that we are on the topic, a lot of smaller, fan-made ERB channels got lost, even if this "subculture" is honestly going pretty strong for something of this niche. I like some of these fan-made battles more than the actual ERB tbh.

This one below was lost till very recently, it's creator Jay is still going strong and reuploading them himself. This one is probably the definition of "autistic kid interests in 2014", and it was actually made in 2014. Honestly the flow and voice acting are pretty good, even if the subject makes it almost impossible to take it seriously.
 
I'm looking for any videos of Parkourdude 91 and the Team Gamerfood related content. If anyone has them saved please share.
 
There's that FlightReacts video where he reacts to the Filthy Frank hair cake video. Only putting it here because a clip from it became a meme at one point, and it's funny how it's lost despite that status.

There's countless YTPs that are lost, but this one is interesting to me because the audio was copyright claimed, but the video is still up.


Speaking of, there used to be this youchew archive that had hundreds of pages of URLs to videos, but they shut it down recently. The archive was unusable hot garbage anyways. Old link if curious.
 
I have one that is lost to time and I don't know why anyone would have saved it but someone might have.

Back in the early days of YouTube it was quite a normal thing to shit on a user named Irate Gamer, think 2007-2009. I won't get into specifics but he basically ripped off the Angry Video Game Nerd in a few videos and everyone had a tard fit over it. Simply put, it was completely normal to find people making videos about him. If you were around back then, you already know this.

There was this one small time YouTuber that really had a bone to pick with ole' Chris Bores aka the Irate Gamer. I believe he had a few videos on him, but one always stood out to me.

I believe the video was titled "Should we get a hacker to go after Irate Gamer" or something to that effect. In the video he discusses how some guy is vaguely a hacker and mostly discusses how he has been banned a ton on YouTube and that we should all message the guy to rally him to fuck with Irate Gamer. It's a pretty funny video and he is 100 percent serious throughout it. I remember he ends the video by saying "So do you think we should get YouTube's most banned user to help us?" He also says "You be the judge" and says it in a really weird, autistic way. I remember people shitting on him in the comments about it lol.

If someone were to find it, he had other funny videos. He made a video where he reacted to Sonic being announced in Smash Bros. Brawl where he freaks the fuck out over it.
 
They've already posted some useful links, but if you want to see channels and videos you don't know the links of, you can always try to look up the channel itself on the Wayback Machine, using both "channel id", and "legacy username" if you know about it (or infer it).

They both direct to the same YT channel (legacy username is used by old channels), but they both bring different archives, so if one fails and is not archived, the other might be. If successful, in their channel you'll be able to see some of the videos' thumbnails (and their links), and then use the mentioned website to see if the video itself is archived.

For the first step, you may try different schemes YouTube has: legacy username (user/xxx), channel id (channel/UC_and_22_characters_), custom (c/xxx), and handle (/@handle).

Legacy is old, not used anymore (for old channels, but can give old results on Wayback), custom is old as well (doesn't exist anymore, rarely used when it existed, but some still have it), channel id (most reliable, independent of name and every channel has it), and handle (YouTube's relatively new way of identifying a channel, trying to copy Twitter or some shit).

So basically, this is for digging for stuff you don't know it existed, but once you uncover it, you may get a secret archive lost to time no one knows about.
 
There was a pretty popular channel a while back called Guy Jones. He posted a lot of old history content, but his account got terminated because of copyright claims. Does anyone know if his content was saved at all?
 
Until a few years ago there was Malevo Ferreyra's last interview (yeah, the same one where he committed suicide) but the uploader's channel got closed probably due to graphic content. Can't forgive myself for not downloading nor archiving the video earlier.
 
There was a set of dubs made by The Responder Uno and Jota/@jameson2233 back in 2009 titled Naughty Clifford.
If you ever watched the Grandma's Kisses dub from back then they were pretty much those type of videos.
As of now only Part 3 is available to watch anywhere online:
 
A shitload of the SuperIdiotMan Spongebob edits. Fuck, they were funny.
 
Videos are going down at a rapid rate right now. Archive your favorites if they aren't already gone. This is fucking retarded.
 
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