Which one is betterâŚYeah Mad or The OG Crew? IYKYK
A heads up that yesterday I woke up to a message that YouTube had removed by channel. The reason given was âviolations of our spam, deceptive practices and scams policy.â I unsuccessfully appealed the decision. Prior to this the channel had received no strikes of any kind or changed the type of content, so I am mystified as to any exact reason or even the type of video. Reading through the guidelines for this type of breach didnât help as I couldnât identify anything that matched as the thumbnails, descriptions etc were accurate and I wasnât trying to defraud viewers etc.
While very disheartening, all the content is archived outside of YouTube, however, it will mean some broken links on this site.
Sorry to hear about this - hopefully you can get some sort of channel, even if itâs on another platform, up and running - Iâm sure I speak for everyone here when I say we appreciate all the hard work you do recording the various videos, etc, and well as reposting content from your first channel before that was sadly also taken down.
honestly, @TV.Cynic - you are the best in the biz for Aussie media archival, and itâs so sad to see YouTube remove your efforts once again. thank you for what you do though.
I have to wonder if this is now the time we should be investing in an independent website for all Aussie media archiving (something like TVARK in the UK), as Google really proved that YouTube isnât really that viable of a platform for archival as it once wasâŚ
Yep, disappointing as I often looked at some of your YouTube content. Owning your own infrastructure is the only secure way to monetise content on the Internet - from personal experience YouTubeâs payment thresholds are very high and very few content producers would ever see a cent.
Back when I had a free ISP ftp/~ site I put up some video content with HTML5, it was very easy to do despite the limited storage available. The TV broadcasters were touting their new online presence as revolutionary using Brightcove. I was surprised how easy it was to replicate at a much smaller scale with some HTML5. From my experience an AWS bucket and HTML5 + a CDN such as Cloudflare would allow you to run your own streaming platform if you could write you own code. Add an advertising platform other than Google and you would be off to a start.
That is fucked. Sorry to hear that. I did enjoy what you posted there, youtube is unfortunetly become a power house of craptacular and ironic decisions.
Glad you managed to archive it your content outsode youtube.
I was trying to find this convo, glad I found it. Sorry to hear that your channel was terminated. This is a really sad time at the moment because thereâs so much past and present TV history in that archive, now all gone from YouTube. Canât they just learn to leave TV archivers like you alone? I had subscribed to see what you would upload, and would go back and see older content, like, historic recordings. Also not forgetting the video you uploaded on Paul Burtâs final 7NEWS broadcast where he took a hit at Seven for sacking him live on-air.
Hereâs a suggestion, until perhaps a website can be established for recordings that youâve made, you should put all your recordings onto the Internet Archive at archive.org. When Rhys Marshallâs YT channel FLEMISHDOG was terminated back in 2018, he re-uploaded most of the videos from YT onto there. While he was at it, he had another YT channel so he posted a video responding to the channelâs termination. The content (and its account) is still up on the Internet Archive to this day. You should honestly give it a go. Also creating an Internet Archive account is free, so no problems there at all.
There are some people who have downloaded some of the archive and re-uploaded it to keep your legacy alive. The CrowdStrike NBN News update video from July 2024 couldnât be found anywhere except for a poor quality camera recording from Connor G Macleod, and you came to the rescue with a clear recording of it. Itâs not gone though, as Iâve re-uploaded it and credited you for it. Some of my content is media-related, and hearing that you got terminated for uploading promos, idents and historical content (fuck YouTube) is making me want to set up an Internet Archive account now and take them all down from YT (not including commercials) in order to protect myself from termination. If anything, Iâll probably create one soon. Commercials Iâve been uploading (regional ads) will remain on YT.
A few days ago I was given a Community Guidelines Warning because my recent upload somehow contained âviolent/graphicâ content.
The content in question was from this âFocusâ promo and the YouTube robots seems to think that this is a real baby being harmed when itâs just a Porcelain Baby Doll being created.
I found FLEMISHDOGâs content on archive.org recently and itâs just as good viewing experience as YouTube.
Recently I moved a hobby website from my now defunct ISP free web host to Neocities. Got a nasty surprise when I found Google would not index the site unless I included a Google tracker in the code. Google are as heavy handed on normal web hosting as YouTube. No such problems getting indexed on Bing or DDG.
My Internet Archive account is now live and Iâm in the process of migrating certain content from my YouTube channels over to archive.org, particularly news content, in order to protect my YouTube channels.
Please do the same soon @TV.Cynic, weâre all counting on you. Weâll be checking out your content again the day you open up an Internet Archive account. 
Is this @TV.Cynicâs account? Likely, as Australian TV Fan was his OG YT name.
Yes - Already have an account on INternet Archive.
That sucks, I have seen a few YouTube channels terminated over the years.
Be warned, the Internet Archive is slow to upload and does not protect you from DMCA take-downs. Whole account deletion is rare but not impossible either. I have given up on uploading to the Internet Archive as it is just too slow, I upload more to Odysee now.
Is it possible to add custom thumbnails for the video uploads over there? If so, very handy and helpful.
On another note, regarding Odysee uploads, The Radio Vault shouldâve done the exact same thing. If that had have happened, content from TRV would still be up today. Instead, the channel decided to disappear into the unknown, and as of right now, almost nothing is left of TRV online, except for some Wayback Machine pages of the channel and thatâs about it, with no playable content on the archived pages.
So what website will protect archivists and regular uploaders of certain content, e.g: Australian News content, from these DMCA take-downs? Does anyone know any solutions? 