Post by gordon on Sept 12, 2022 13:43:33 GMT
I have asked myself "after how many views can a video still become memory-holed?" (meaning no publicly accessible copy exists) after I could nowhere find a video which gained over 700 thousand views in one day:
“2.000.000 Aufrufe nach 14 Stunden | ApoRed”
On May 14, 2016, the popular controversial German-Afghani YouTube creator "ApoRed" (earlier "ApokalyptoRed", real name "Nadim") uploaded the second revision of his music video "Everyday Saturday", after the first one rose to the most downvoted video from any German video creator in YouTube history at that time. Over half a million dislikes.
The archives show that it gained over 30.000 views within minutes after being uploaded (14 May 2016 19:04:18 UTC), and over a million views half a day after upload (15 May 2016 09:57:42 UTC). Now, the original music video is not lost, since it gained over 13 million views and was even re-uploaded in 2019 by the creator Nadim himself on a new channel (with the only difference being that the section between from 43 to 47 seconds is blurred out). But the seven-minute follow-up video "2.000.000 Aufrufe nach 14 Stunden" ("2 million views after 14 hours"), which was published on May 15th 2016, where he discusses what the title suggests, is nowhere to be found.
Archive of channel page with that video listed: youtube.com/user/ApokalyptoRed (16 May 2016 20:19:27 UTC)
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“Von grauen Avataren und der Unterwelt des Internets ”
The video "YouTube Deutschland Zerstörung (Schlechter Content ist eine Entscheidung)", uploaded by the popular German documentary channel "Simplicissimus" in August 2016 when they had ~30.000 subscribers, was lost for around a year when it was set to private in 2020. An archive of the watch page shows it was at least available until 15 Jul 2020 00:14:15 UTC. The video, which criticized several big names in the German YouTube community, gained over 463 thousand views before being set to private. Thankfully, that video resurfaced in 2021 due to being provided by archivist Reddit user "NimboGringo".
However, the watch page archive from 27 Oct 2017 13:17:14 UTC shows another video: "Von grauen Avataren und der Unterwelt des Internets ", a five-minute video with over 118 thousand views. An archive dated 20 May 2015 04:10:25 UTC shows it was uploaded on April 28th, 2015, making it one of the earliest videos of "Simplicissimus". They had only 51 subscrbiers, whereas they have over a million today.
Tweets sent via YouTube AutoShare (a feature removed in January 2019) show it was on air until at least September 2018.
One of the most controversial videos from 2016 was published by the Turkish-German video creator Mert Matan on March 13th that year, where he pretends to be homosexual in front of his father, in response to which he was beaten. The authenticity of the video was also questioned. Nonetheless, the video made news headlines and gained over a million views within days.
An archive (14 Mar 2016 17:48:13 UTC) shows it already had half a million views on the day after being uploaded, and over a million on 16 Mar 2016 07:58:37 UTC. The original six-minute video is nowhere to be found.
“POLIZEI-SIRENEN PRANK !!!”
On July 16th 2017, another highly controversial German YouTube prankster, Leon Machère, with over two million subscribers, published a video where he drove on a motorway with a fake police siren. That video also caused news headlines.
An archive (20 Jul 2017 00:02:26 UTC) shows it had over half a million views within four days of being uploaded. The full eight-minute video exists nowhere, only some reaction and news videos which show little excerpts.
“2.000.000 Aufrufe nach 14 Stunden | ApoRed”
On May 14, 2016, the popular controversial German-Afghani YouTube creator "ApoRed" (earlier "ApokalyptoRed", real name "Nadim") uploaded the second revision of his music video "Everyday Saturday", after the first one rose to the most downvoted video from any German video creator in YouTube history at that time. Over half a million dislikes.
The archives show that it gained over 30.000 views within minutes after being uploaded (14 May 2016 19:04:18 UTC), and over a million views half a day after upload (15 May 2016 09:57:42 UTC). Now, the original music video is not lost, since it gained over 13 million views and was even re-uploaded in 2019 by the creator Nadim himself on a new channel (with the only difference being that the section between from 43 to 47 seconds is blurred out). But the seven-minute follow-up video "2.000.000 Aufrufe nach 14 Stunden" ("2 million views after 14 hours"), which was published on May 15th 2016, where he discusses what the title suggests, is nowhere to be found.
Archive of channel page with that video listed: youtube.com/user/ApokalyptoRed (16 May 2016 20:19:27 UTC)
Thumbnail:
“Von grauen Avataren und der Unterwelt des Internets ”
The video "YouTube Deutschland Zerstörung (Schlechter Content ist eine Entscheidung)", uploaded by the popular German documentary channel "Simplicissimus" in August 2016 when they had ~30.000 subscribers, was lost for around a year when it was set to private in 2020. An archive of the watch page shows it was at least available until 15 Jul 2020 00:14:15 UTC. The video, which criticized several big names in the German YouTube community, gained over 463 thousand views before being set to private. Thankfully, that video resurfaced in 2021 due to being provided by archivist Reddit user "NimboGringo".
However, the watch page archive from 27 Oct 2017 13:17:14 UTC shows another video: "Von grauen Avataren und der Unterwelt des Internets ", a five-minute video with over 118 thousand views. An archive dated 20 May 2015 04:10:25 UTC shows it was uploaded on April 28th, 2015, making it one of the earliest videos of "Simplicissimus". They had only 51 subscrbiers, whereas they have over a million today.
Tweets sent via YouTube AutoShare (a feature removed in January 2019) show it was on air until at least September 2018.
One of the most controversial videos from 2016 was published by the Turkish-German video creator Mert Matan on March 13th that year, where he pretends to be homosexual in front of his father, in response to which he was beaten. The authenticity of the video was also questioned. Nonetheless, the video made news headlines and gained over a million views within days.
An archive (14 Mar 2016 17:48:13 UTC) shows it already had half a million views on the day after being uploaded, and over a million on 16 Mar 2016 07:58:37 UTC. The original six-minute video is nowhere to be found.
“POLIZEI-SIRENEN PRANK !!!”
On July 16th 2017, another highly controversial German YouTube prankster, Leon Machère, with over two million subscribers, published a video where he drove on a motorway with a fake police siren. That video also caused news headlines.
An archive (20 Jul 2017 00:02:26 UTC) shows it had over half a million views within four days of being uploaded. The full eight-minute video exists nowhere, only some reaction and news videos which show little excerpts.
