There's probably nobody to ask at the moment, then.
A few sociopaths directly contacted Christine's family about the tape, and unsurprisingly they reacted very poorly to people demanding their fork over footage of their relatives gory demise. They got rightfully called out for this, and ever since there's been a ban on NSFL searches.
"oooh, you're a- a freaked out child in the woods..."
In a viral video I saw in 2018 or 2019, someone's smartphone (likely iPhone 6 or 6s) fell into a ground-level whirlpool as an unintended consequence of some other prank. That prank could have been someone throwing a dummy (fake) smartphone into the pool, but I am not sure. After the real iPhone feel into the pool, the owner tried to quickly fish it out of the pool, it flew into the air, and landed in the pool again.
The man was standing roughly at a ten-o-clock angle to the pool from the cameras perspective. Perhaps there was a larger pool on the left side, with only the edge visible in the video during that scene, but I am not fully sure.
Since the smartphone was, as far as I remember, an iPhone 6 or 6s, the prank was likely originally filmed in late 2014 or 2015 or 2016.
I could not find that video when searching for "phone water prank", "waterproof prank", "phone falls in pool", "iPhone prank gone wrong", each without quotation marks, and variations thereof. Possibly, some of the large prank channels have sanitized their history, though there was nothing out of scope about that video for a prank channel.
In a video which was likely included in an "expensive fails" compilation, three teenagers blocked a car (likely a cabriolet) with their kick scooters (likely electronic ones, which would make it more expensive) at a traffic light, possibly for amusement. The car driver honked his horn once or twice as far as I remember. Then, out of anger, he got out of the car, ripped one of the scooters away from one of the blockers, and threw it off the bridge they were standing on.
The ground below the bridge was largely sand or desert, no river. If there was a river, it must have been a narrow one, but the ground was largely yellowish.
Looking at archived browsing history from 2018, I could not find that scene in any of the "expensive fails" videos I watched. Roughly a quarter of those videos are no longer available as of writing, meaning the scene could have very well been in one of those videos. Many of those videos had several millions of views. Re-uploads might exist out there, though unless they have the exact same title as the original, they will be nearly impossible to find in an ocean of similarly titled videos.
It could still be out there, and I already searched for terms such as "man throws scooter off bridge", "teenagers block car using scooters" (without quotation marks) and similar, but could not find it or anything resembling.
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- The Christchurch shooting video had millions of views before being taken down, clips exist but the full thing is pretty lost, or at least VERY difficult to find.
- Tons of advertisements
- Most black and white movies were seen by millions of people across the world
The first video isn't lost. I have it on my hard drive. Others probably have it too.
I almost wish searches for NSFL material could have their own seperate forums. Anyways onto the subject of this thread a massive amount of award shows qualify considering that they were often highly advertised but poorly archived. Also there are so many fail compiliation videos and tv shows without complete episode list, even popular ones like AFV,and keeping track of all of the individual clips would be enough to make one's head spin.
I almost wish searches for NSFL material could have their own seperate forums. Anyways onto the subject of this thread a massive amount of award shows qualify considering that they were often highly advertised but poorly archived. Also there are so many fail compiliation videos and tv shows without complete episode list, even popular ones like AFV,and keeping track of all of the individual clips would be enough to make one's head spin.
Many of the problems with NSFL material in this community would still arise if an alternative server was made, Back on the topic on hand there are a few videos/media that were healivy viewed but now are remained missing
The documentary was widely criticized by other popular German video creators, including Tim Heldt, for glorifying alcohol consumption. In case anyone didn't know, there is an epidemic of alcohol addiction in Germany.
As a result of the criticism, a follow-up video "Q&A | 30 Tage Challenge: So schwierig war es, keinen Alkohol zu trinken! | Y-Kollektiv" was published on the secondary channel "Y-zwei" on April 28th, where the protagonist of the documentary, Carolin von der Groeben, responded to the criticism and tried to defend their point of view. Notice the "Q&A" at the beginning of the title.
Around May 2022, both of those videos were voluntarily taken down (privated) by Y-Kollektiv due to excessive criticism. Y-Kollektiv could not resist the criticism any longer. Thankfully, the first video was picked up by the lost & found office of the Internet, the Internet Archive. However, the second video is lost to history.
Only its watch page was captured by the Archive (takes a while to load due to the Archive having to cope with YouTube's crappy "Polymer" framework), and it was not uploaded anywhere else.
Despite all the scrutiny by other major video creators, the second video in its entirety is memory-holed. Only small excerpts are visible in responses such as at 10m36s in the criticism video by Tim Heldt.
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Rustem Ramaj, better known under the nick name "Leon Machère", is easily the most famous pranking YouTuber (or "prankster") from Germany. Long story short, in 2020 and 2021, smaller YouTuber "MiiMii" analyzed dozens of Leon's videos and exposed them as staged.
In spite of being staged, the videos certainly do have an entertainment value.
Many videos of Leon Machère have since been memory-holed. For example:
Video from May 2018, available until at least 2020:
The title of this 2018 video suggests that Leon made his younger brother believe that he deleted his Fortnite account. Given Leon's history, this is likely staged too, but what made me curious for this video is how he faked the user interface. I might have watched it in 2018, but I forgot what it looked like.
It appears that whenever the Internet Archive misses out on a video, it can be erased from history even after receiving a million views. This is a sad state.
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YouTuber discussing her brothers' deaths - two million views, memory-holed.
A controversial YouTube figure from Germany is Katja Krasavice, real name Katrin Vogelóva, who has czech roots. On her channel, she used to upload erotica videos that were borderline against YouTube's terms of service, yet her channel was not terminated. But the one video I am interested in is the one of her discussing the death of her brothers.
She had two brothers, one of whom died from cancer, the other from suicide. In September 2015, she aired the quarter-hour long video "Warum mein Bruder GESTORBEN ist...." ("why my brother died") on her channel.
The Wayback Machine shows it was available until at least 2019. I appreciate that the description was left without advertisements, just "Hotline: 0800 - 111 0 333", the suicide hotline of Germany. The next Wayback capture from 2020 shows it was already taken down.
The Wayback Machine does not have the video itself, nor does it exist anywhere else on the web. Looks like not even four years on air and two million views can save some videos from ending up memory-holed.
Charlie Bit My Finger, one of the first viral YouTube videos ever, was deleted after becoming a fucking NFT.
Small rant here, but I find this...so disgusting? Ever since I heard about it, it's left an awful taste in my mouth. CBMF was first uploaded for family members, and it just happened to go viral. It's a family home video. Why would any sane person sell their home videos, as a worthless NFT no less, like that? Their dad also gives me red flags...just watch some interviews he did.
Obviously they did it for money, but c'mon. Home videos are precious, I would never sell mine like that for a quick buck. Never. Fuck NFTs, I laughed so hard and rejoiced when I learned they're not worth very much anymore. I called it a long time ago, I knew those things would be worthless.
Okay rant over but yeah, rip the original upload of CBMF. Deleted due to greed.
Charlie Bit My Finger, one of the first viral YouTube videos ever, was deleted after becoming a fucking NFT.
Small rant here, but I find this...so disgusting? Ever since I heard about it, it's left an awful taste in my mouth. CBMF was first uploaded for family members, and it just happened to go viral. It's a family home video. Why would any sane person sell their home videos, as a worthless NFT no less, like that? Their dad also gives me red flags...just watch some interviews he did.
Obviously they did it for money, but c'mon. Home videos are precious, I would never sell mine like that for a quick buck. Never. Fuck NFTs, I laughed so hard and rejoiced when I learned they're not worth very much anymore. I called it a long time ago, I knew those things would be worthless.
Okay rant over but yeah, rip the original upload of CBMF. Deleted due to greed.
Charlie Bit My Finger, one of the first viral YouTube videos ever, was deleted after becoming a fucking NFT.
Small rant here, but I find this...so disgusting? Ever since I heard about it, it's left an awful taste in my mouth. CBMF was first uploaded for family members, and it just happened to go viral. It's a family home video. Why would any sane person sell their home videos, as a worthless NFT no less, like that? Their dad also gives me red flags...just watch some interviews he did.
Obviously they did it for money, but c'mon. Home videos are precious, I would never sell mine like that for a quick buck. Never. Fuck NFTs, I laughed so hard and rejoiced when I learned they're not worth very much anymore. I called it a long time ago, I knew those things would be worthless.
Okay rant over but yeah, rip the original upload of CBMF. Deleted due to greed.
