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1	* Creator/AchievementHunter:
2	** Their let's play of the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' Xbox Live arcade game was apparently filmed, but not uploaded. Any reference they make to it implies that it was incredibly boring.
3	** An episode of ''[[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries Let's Build]]'' was removed due to backlash over a game that Geoff and Gavin talked about playing while driving, called "Connect the Hots", that was tantamount to ''stalking''. Both realized that indeed it was, and apologized profusely over it. Reuploads of the episode can be easily found on Platform/YouTube, however.
4	** After Ryan Haywood left the company following sexual misconduct allegations, his show ''Technical Difficulties'' and a few episodes of ''This Just Internet'' that prominently featured him were removed from the channel and website. He was also edited out of the then most recent episode of AHWU and presumably they discarded at least a week's worth of pre-recorded let's plays.
5	* Due to [[TechnologyMarchesOn the advance of technology]], the problems faced with archiving old films are now being repeated with a great deal of online content made in Adobe Flash in the late '90s and '00s. The announcement that Adobe would be discontinuing the Flash Player in 2020 was welcomed in many quarters of the tech world, as Flash was a notorious resource hog and security vulnerability that bogged down computers and left them open to hackers and viruses, and one that was obsolete with the rise of the faster, more secure, and more mobile-friendly [=HTML5=]. [[note]]Apple's iDevices notably did not support Flash for these reasons -- a controversial decision in 2007 when the iPhone first debuted, but one that was VindicatedByHistory.[[/note]] At the same time, however, it was also recognized that, due to compatibility issues between [=HTML5=] and Flash, a lot of early internet content created in Flash, especially in animation and gaming, would be rendered inaccessible and likely lost forever in the future. A group called [[https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/317466/Flashpoint_is_archiving_Flash_games_before_they_disappear_forever.php Flashpoint]] had been racing to archive old Flash games before they disappear, and [[https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x3d7d/flash-banner-ad-archive one person]] had even tried to save all the old banner ads created with Flash. While Flash is not the only obsolete file format whose content risks being lost (others include [[https://qz.com/863467/how-adobe-flash-once-the-face-of-the-web-fell-to-the-brink-of-obscurity-and-why-its-worth-saving/ MAC, SXW, and DXF]]), it was undoubtedly the most high-profile due to its sheer ubiquity at its peak.
6	* An early website for ''Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide'' featured a tour of Doc Brown's institute. One page contained some clever blueprints of Doc's post-trilogy inventions, including a personal time travel suit, a hover-bike, and an improved Mr. Fusion. Sadly, the Internet Archive only saved [[http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.universalstudios.com/unicity/btf/archive.html two captures]] of the blueprints section, and neither one successfully captured all of the blueprints.
7	* "WebVideo/SecretMissingEpisodes" of ''WebVideo/BarneyBunch'' fame are parodies of this trope. They basically involve every male character from a series announcing they're gay and having an either poorly-represented or censored orgasm.
8	* ''RolePlay/CampusLife'' ended up falling victim to this as well, with [[ShaggyDogStory one of its very few completed arcs as well]]. The Forum Campus Life was hosted on at the time ended up getting purged due to inactivaty[[note]]due to it being relocated to another Forum after the then current head of the Forum they weren't up to the task of heading a Forum[[/note]] and lost a greater part of the 'Dark Sonic' arc. The only thing from that arc that survived was the climax, which only survived because the RP got ported over to another Forum just before it happened. All the build up it had, however, can only be experienced through the TV Tropes page itself.
9	* From Website/ChannelAwesome:
10	** A video by Creator/DougWalker were he dresses up as Osama Bin Laden.
11	*** "Go Cubs Go". A video in which Doug, Rob and Mike get depressed over the Chicago Cubs losing and try to commit suicide, ending with the gun shooting the camera.
12	** A video by WebVideo/ThatDudeInTheSuede that ranted against [=YouTube's=] takedowns of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic episodes which caught the interest of Creator/DougWalker and in turn was responsible for Website/ChannelAwesome becoming a showcase for more contributors other than Walker is lost and gone forever. The reason? Suede said he'd delete the video when the dispute between Walker and [=YouTube=] had run its course and Suede had saved the video on a now long-gone college computer.
13	*** The first version of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion in 5 seconds''. Will deleted it from his channel because he thought it was way too long.
14	** [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One's]] old film riffs. They were removed from his site in 2008 and he doesn't plan in releasing then again.
15	*** His Mashable Awards 2009 Acceptance Video. It was removed from his site and blip.tv hours after it was released due to people calling Scarlet names.
16	*** The first three sessions of [[WebVideo/SpoonysCampaign Spoony's Dungeons & Dragons Campaign]]. They were not recorded by Creator/LordKaT and we only have [[http://rollot.blogspot.com/2010/08/d-recap-sessions-1-3.html RolloT's recap]] of them.
17	** The first "WebVideo/{{Benzaie}} versus [[WebVideo/TheGameHeroes Handsome Tom]]" match, the VideoGame/StreetFighterIV Challenge, were the game glitched and Tom won. It was originally posted on [[UnPerson Daniel "That Aussie Guy" Rizzo's]] blip.tv account, which was taken down after he left the site in August of 2009. The only remains of the match are two black and white clips on Ben's [[https://archive.org/details/bliptv-20131031-030013-Benzaie-BenzaieVSHandsomeTomRevenge777 revenge video]].
18	*** WebVideo/{{Benzaie}}'s recorded livestreams on his original USTREAM account, which was closed due to Ben violating Terms of Service.
19	** Every single video made by [[UnPerson Daniel "That Aussie Guy" Rizzo]] for Website/ChannelAwesome (except Ask That Aussie Guy and Trailer Trash). While he did upload them to his [=YouTube=] account, they are on private mode and his original blip.tv account and his Bored Shitless account were deleted when blip.tv's site got redesigned.
20	** WebVideo/BennettTheSage:
21	*** His Manga/ElfenLied: TheAbridgedSeries. The first 11 episodes were taken down from [=YouTube=] and Episode 12 was never released.
22	*** Most of ''Masterpiece Fanfic Theater'' disappeared when vid.me ceased operations, and according to a tweet from Bennett, this means most of the episodes have disappeared forever. Only a few episodes have managed to get mirrored by fans, although this does include his reading of ''Fanfic/MyImmortal''.
23	*** Also lost in the demise of vid.me were most of his one-off list videos, such as "Top 10 Most WTF Music Videos" and "Top 20 Worst #1 Songs". The latter has been mirrored.
24	** Out of the seven videos that That Chick With The Goggles made for the site, only three were released on her [[https://www.youtube.com/user/sakiimi YouTube account]] and her blip.tv account was deleted.
25	** The second episode of [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Thanks for the Feedback!]] (also the first to be shot, supposed to be the last episode and the one who inspired the series), White Rapping, also known by its more popular names, Rape Rap and Rapping About Rape. It was taken down from the site and blip.tv, not because of its nature, because it was the original edit that Lindsay put up on the File Transfer Protocol, told admin not to release it and it ended up on the site due to miscommunication and misunderstanding.
26	*** While Creator/LindsayEllis has opened [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLdcgni1mCq1OxUE3HIL8QQ a channel for most of her classic videos]], a few of them are still to be uploaded or can only be found in unofficial sources.
27	** Every single Mobled Queen era film made by Creator/DarkMazeStudios.
28	** After Creator/LittleKuriboh's original [=YouTube=] account was taken down, there were various videos that he didn't reupload in his [=CardGamesFTW=] channel and are only available through mirrors, such as the video were he proposed to his first wife, the video were he dresses up as Kaiba and his four Comment Response Videos.
29	*** His Platform/LiveJournal account was taken down, taking various posts that were both funny and informative.
30	** Creator/BradJones has several:
31	*** His first directorial effort ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308087/ Cancelled Sitcoms]]'' which was made in 2000 but went to being lost forever because this short film was shown on the iFilm website. It's also considered an OldShame by [[http://thecinemasnob.forumotion.com/t512-cancelled-sitcoms-what-is-this the man himself]].
32	*** Another of his early movies ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3752838/ Sadistic Bitch]]'' is also missing as it was never uploaded anywhere and the only print was stolen with most of his DVD collection in a burglary. Unlike ''Cancelled Sitcoms'' he was actually really saddened by this and has made several unsuccessful efforts to find it again.
33	*** His ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'' episode on ''Grizzly II''. The movie itself was unfinished and thus never commercially released. The film's producer found the review and ordered it taken down. Since Fair Use laws become extra muddy with unreleased material, Brad complied and took it down. (Although his review can be found online.)
34	*** The ''Cinema Snob'' episode on ''Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party'' was taken down about an ''hour'' after it was uploaded, supposedly due to Content ID issues. He managed to get it put back up, only for it to be taken down again. Jones later [[https://twitter.com/thecinemasnob/status/1032404837269422080 compared]] the episode's rarity to the [=McRib=]. It has been fully restored by now.
35	*** The very first ''WebVideo/MidnightScreenings'' episode, which had Brad and Jerrid Foiles reviewing ''Film/{{Thor}}'', has disappeared forever. Brad said in a later review that it mysteriously disappeared when the show was still on Blip, and was never recovered.
36	*** ''Shot on Shitteo'', an anthology starring his frequent collaborator Jake Norvell, which can't legally be released following Norvell's firing from Team Snob. He's now attempting to find a way to release it with retooled footage but so far there's no concrete release date. (He's joked that ''Film/TheDayTheClownCried'' would come out before ''Shot on Shitteo'' does.)
37	*** The original version of the ''Las Vegas Bloodbath'' review. When the review was originally released, the part where the Snob talks about the killer cutting the fetus out of the pregnant woman showed a shot of the killer grabbing the fetus out of her open stomach and raising it over his head, with the woman's stomach being censored by a blur effect. Apparently, this scene was too much for even Blip's standards, because sometime after the review's release, it was taken down and replaced with a new version that swaps out the actual de-fetusing with a shot from earlier in the scene of the killer cutting the woman's stomach. The current Screenwave upload and all unofficial mirrors of the review use the censored version.
38	*** A number of his reviews are not available because either it'd get flagged by Platform/YouTube for content (meaning a lot of the gorier earlier reviews... or some of the porn ones, which are in the Snob's Pornhub page!) or because of a copyright claim where the copyright holder refuses to compromise (Brad mentioned ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'' as an example of the latter in a livestream, and also in his "Choose Your Own [[Creator/SteveGuttenberg Guttenberg]]" special given it's the only of the actor's movies which doesn't warrant any clips). Fans have [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes kept many of them online]], though not all on Platform/Youtube (where one of those uploads notes his old RealSongThemeTune "Believe It Or Not" apparently leads to automatic copyright takedowns).
39	** ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'' episode on ''Series/TheGirlfriendExperience'' was made before Oancitizen joined TGWTG, and it was reposted on the site when he was too busy to make new episodes. Problem was, that on the initial run, the show was known by few people, and most of them friends, so no one pointed out the sexist undertones in many jokes. On the site, several fans got angry, which led to Kyle removing the video from his account, and recording a commentary apologizing for it. And the less we say about ''Shit TGWTG Fans Say'', the better... And now his episode on Creator/CrispinGlover's ''What Is It?'' is gone. Though for reasons similar to the Cinema Snob example above, the movie has no commercial release and is only allowed to be played at private screenings with Glover's presence. The ''What Is It?'' and ''The Girlfriend Experience'' episodes were eventually re-uploaded to other sites by fans, as part of their KeepCirculatingTheTapes efforts after Blip shut down.
40	** ''WebVideo/DiamandaHagan'' has the review of ''Forgive Me For Raping You'', which was removed from Blip due to the title causing controversy. Nobody else seems to have uploaded the episode onto [=YouTube=] or other sites at the moment, so it remains to be seen whether or not this episode will once again see the light of day.
41	** ''WebVideo/ThatSciFiGuy'' became inactive after 2014, and with the blip shutdown, a large number of his reviews are currently hard to find. While some of them do survive on [=YouTube=], a fair number of his video reviews are still MIA. Examples include,
42	*** 5/5 Star Trek Characters
43	*** An English version of Rollerball
44	*** Splice (2012) ... That Sci-fi Guy
45	*** TFG: Stardust (2012) ... That Sci-fi Guy
46	*** Wild Wild West (2012) ... That Sci-fi Guy
47	*** First Impressions V-Log: Final Destination 5 (2011) ... That Sci-fi Guy
48	*** First Impressions V-Log: Green Lantern (2011) ... That Sci-fi Guy
49	*** Really, Internet? - Action Comics (2011) ... That Sci-fi Guy
50	*** And Another Thing: Jocks vs. Geeks (2011)
51	*** Unboxing the Matrix: Setinel (2011) ... That Sci-fi Guy
52	*** Really, Internet? - Taco Bell Meat (2011) ... That Sci-fi Guy
53	*** Really, Internet? - Green Lantern (2010) ... That Sci-fi Guy
54	*** And Another Thing: Smallville (2010) ... That Sci-fi Guy
55	** Once ''Webvideo/PushingUpRoses'' got her Blip channel deleted, many of the videos seem to have disappeared, most notably her review of Music/TheMonkees movies. (she has at most put the ''Head'' one on Patreon)
56	** While Webvideo/YRulerOfTime's crossover review of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' has [[https://thatguywiththeglasses.fandom.com/wiki/%22The_Last_Airbender%22_with_JesuOtaku,_ToddInTheShadows,_and_Rollo_T a full transcript]], the video itself is hard to find.
57	** Considering Chuck infamously had to switch video hosts 7 (!) times, it’s probably easier to list Website/SFDebris videos that aren't missing. Roughly half of his uploads nowadays are him desperately trying to restore stuff. Most of which he already restored at least twice.
58	*** His "bonus" review of the WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}} episode ''An Alien Affair'' is a special case in that its most likely gone for good. It was quickly scrubbed from Youtube following upload and Chuck is unlikely to restore for the sake of a single gag.
59	** When [=#ChangeTheChannel=] resulted in everyone who ''wasn't'' Creator/DougWalker or Creator/BradJones[[note]]and [[WebVideo/GuruLarryAndWez Larry Bundy Jr.]], but by his own admission, he was staying as [[TheDogBitesBack a middle finger to the management for ignoring him]] and [[WhileRomeBurns a front row seat to watch the incident unfold]], not out of loyalty to Walker like Jones was[[/note]] leaving Website/ChannelAwesome en masse, many of Carmical's former coworkers, who only learned of it when they did the document at the heart of the movement, either reedited videos to remove or replace Carmical, outright redid the videos, or simply removed them.
60	* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/CNHubNicktoons CNHubNicktoons]] has more than a few:
61	** All of the Adventures of Slinky videos from I Am Bagel, due to the fact that they weren't scripted. The only trace of it left is on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM6VcskHPYA this video]] and the CN/Hub/Nicktoons on Platform/YouTube block on the livestream channel. There was a article of it on Nick Fanon but it brings up a deleted article. As of November 8, 2014, the whole Slinky series has been deleted with the entire "[=CNHubNicktoons=] on Platform/YouTube" block being removed completely for a major rebrand of the livestream channel and the video being deleted, making the whole series lost.
62	** All of [=MattBoo=]'s videos were removed by May 2014 due to many videos being deleted from [=CNHubNicktoons=] by an unknown offender, driving him to quit and remove all remaining videos he did so he could move to [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCUHn7Axht5pCU64VADnwgg his own channel.]] Only three select videos still live, albeit on [=MattBoo=]'s new channel, two of which are unlisted and are only accessible by an announcement video. Some other videos survive on his PC but he has no plans to upload them.
63	*** The aforementioned three videos were also taken down on February 13, 2015 to avoid copyright strikes and [[OldShame MattBoo hating a select couple]], making the last traces of the original [=CNHubNicktoons=] extinct.
64	*** On May 2013, when Flipnote Hatena was ending, [=MattBoo=] uploaded many of his flipnotes to [=CNHubNicktoons=]. When the videos were removed by an anonymous user as mentioned above, the flipnotes were included. The only way to access them is on Sudomemo ([[KeepCirculatingTheTapes well, some of them, anyways)]].
65	*** Those flipnotes have since been available on Flipnote Studio 3D, via through the Nintendo Platform/DSi Gallery [[BadExportForYou (the only online feature in North America).]]
66	* After Creator/ChrisSavino was terminated from Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} for a reported history of [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor sexual harrassment]], he deleted all of his social media accounts which included content that was exclusive to them. His Instagram was notable for containing behind the scenes photos of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' that weren't seen anywhere else, along with original drawings and several promotional updates regarding the live action pilot of his Bigfoot and Gray comic.
67	* LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} once had a whole lost ''series'', devoted mainly to showing ''VideoGame/PokemonPlatinum'''s major battles (i.e. rival battles, gym leaders, the Elite Four & champion, and Legendary Pokemon). What makes this especially notable is that some of these videos include capturing Regirock, Regice, and Registeel, who could only be legitimately captured via (now-defunct) special Nintendo events. According to the announcement video for his 2015 ''Platinum'' LP, the videos were mainly made both to find his footing as a content creator and to help answer questions about the game back when it was still new (for reference, they were recorded around a year before the game's English release). Chugga had deleted these videos out of OldShame, though he would eventually restored all 88 videos and compiled them into their own [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sYhAj0WXRMmJM2XYKaHVXaRBAxQc2UE playlist]] on July 15, 2016, due to immense fan demand. Chugga also had a "Fifty Facts" video, where [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin he lists fifty trivial facts about himself]]. He took it down because many of them became outdated, most notably him being autistic (now known to be the result of a misdiagnosis). A mirror upload can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSFwfMj-jNk here]].
68	* Despite many copyright claims making their mark on episodes of ''WebVideo/CinematicExcrement'', the entire series has been preserved on Sean Moore's Platform/{{Vimeo}} account... except for episode 53, a review of ''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach''. This was taken down in 2018 when it was revealed that [[WebVideo/YouCanPlayThis Justin "JewWario" Carmical]], to whom the episode was made in tribute, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/ChannelAwesome/comments/8bqrhw/whats_all_this_about_jewwario_now/ was a sexual predator]].
69	* ''Website/{{ClickHole}}'' originally had a video called, "If You Grew Up With 'ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes,' You Need To Watch This Right Now". [[SchmuckBait It was a]] RuleThirtyFour [[SchmuckBait video]]. The video was soon removed, and trying to view it through the site's URL redirects you to the Platform/YouTube page of the removed video.
70	* ''WebVideo/ContraPoints'': All videos prior to Natalie Wynn's transition were removed from the channel in 2020, although transcripts are still available on the website.
71	* ''CUT!'', a [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] blog that was distinguished by its heavy use of GallowsHumor, has been wiped clean of entries.
72	* Several writers of the ''original'' Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers RP on Furtopia played out scenes via private messaging. Those scenes were never released.
73	* Several WebAnimation/DeathBattle videos has been removed from Youtube due to copyright strikes over the years. While most have since been restored (and slightly edited) two still remain missing. Namely [[Recap/DeathBattleS07E11BeerusVsSailorGalaxia Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia]] and the [[Recap/DeathBattleS01E06TMNTBattleRoyale TMNT Battle Royale]].
74	* The ViralMarketing sites for ''Film/{{District 9}}''[[note]] including D-9.com (where visitors could view a satellite map of District 9 and receive "news alerts" of suspicious non-human activity), an extensive MNU corporate website, and a Prawn activist blog run by Christopher Johnson[[/note]] have been lost completely. The unofficial [[http://d9.wikibruce.com/Home wiki]] captured a few screenshots and preserved some of the information in text form, but anything added to the sites after 2008 was lost.
75	* ''Webcomic/DrawYourOwnStory'' episode 1-9 and a good chunk of episode 10, due in part to moderators deleting old threads on the forum where they were hosted, and in part due to the site being hacked and a lot of uploaded files (i.e. images that made up episode 10) ending up lost forever. What little we know of them is pieced together from memories as well as old episodes still on the contributors' hard drives.
76	* ''WebVideo/{{Drawfee}}'' infamously lost one of their Random Shapes Challenge videos due to the screen capture becoming corrupted. The episode was a NoodleIncident for a time because Julia, having been tasked to draw a ''character'', decided to draw a room full of vampires. The incident was later [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvJHGMRckl0 animated by Karina]] and inspired [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ26ltMvLbA an episode of Beans]].
77	* Platform/FanFictionDotNet is infamous for its event known as 'the purge' where in an attempt to free space, the site admins went on a mass deleting spree of inactive Forums and even inactive threads on active Forums. Many once popular Forums ended up being killed in the process and many fond memories being wiped clean without consent, which can't even be recovered through the Website/WaybackMachine thanks to the site's [[ScrappyMechanic infamous]] use of 'robots.txt' in its code, keeping the machine from working with the site. Even many famous PlayByPost [=RPs=] had several key arcs completely wiped, only being archived through such things like TV Tropes pages. The effects of the purge can ''still'' be felt today; many of its Forum goers (including many who signed up [[JustHereForGodzilla specifically for the Forums]]) have long since [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere jumped ship a long time ago]], leaving many Forum archives virtual ghost towns even for popular franchises like ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. Compare to days of old where popular Forums could get posts every few minutes to today, where most Forums are lucky to get five posts a day.
78	* ''[[WebVideo/GamesDoneQuick Summer Games Done Quick 2015]]'' had a run of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'', but when [=Gamepro11=] was banned from GDQ events and Twitch over it, that run have never seen the light of day again (all other runs have), and have [[ScrewedByTheLawyers issued DMCA takedowns]] on [=YouTube=] reuploads of the run. However, it can still be viewed [[http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick/v/8647104?t=5h30m23s on the Twitch replay.]]
79	* Episode 376 of ''[[WebVideo/RhettAndLink Good Mythical Morning]]'', which featured Sam Pepper, has been removed as of September 2014. No reason was given, but since Pepper got himself in trouble for sexual harassment around that time...
80	* ''[=TheHolyCabbage=]'' was a relatively popular [=YouTube=] channel in the early 2010s dedicated to dramatic readings of SoBadItsGood FanFic. Some years after the channel retired, however, all of their videos were unlisted, leaving most of their longer readings still accessible through playlists, but several of their one-off readings, including that of Fanfic/LegolasByLaura, inaccessible. Then, in mid-2021, their playlists were taken down too, rendering their entire channel lost.
81	* Some posts from Webcomic/HyperboleAndAHalf have been removed. Allie, the creator, explained this is is either because they contained information that might make real people in the stories uncomfortable or just because she finds them [[Main/OldShame embarrassingly bad]].
82	* The first episode of ''WebVideo/IncognitoCinemaWarriorsXP'' (''Bride of the Gorilla'') is no longer available for order or download: a combination of [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness format changes in subsequent episodes]], dissatisfaction with the quality of the episode and a lack of desire to redo it in the current format.
83	* The Website/ItGetsBetterProject has a couple:
84	** The [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague San Francisco 49ers]]' video was taken down after two players, in the heat of the controversy surrounding Chris Culliver's homophobic remarks, denied ever making the video, and when reminded of its existence, said they did it under false pretenses.
85	** Oscar Pistorius' video was taken down after he was charged with murdering his girlfriend.
86	* Jack Douglass of WebVideo/JacksFilms included a "Tool of the Week" segment (in which he criticized and mocked a fellow [=YouTuber=]) in an early installment of his ''Featured Fridays'' videos. Viewers complained about the uncharacteristically mean-spirited tone of the segment, and Jack removed the video several days later with an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjrInE5qpvw apology]], admitting that he was just trying to be "edgy".
87	* The "Hotbox" episode of ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'' was never officially uploaded to Platform/YouTube [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin for obvious reasons]].
88	* WebVideo/JonTron is somewhat infamous for this, having either privatized or deleted numerous episodes simply out of OldShame. Some are quite justified (such as "Top Ten Overrated Games," which generated heavy backlash), others were taken down mainly because they fell out of favor with Jon because they no longer fit his show's style (most notably "Apples and Breaks," a short video where Jon mourns his broken Platform/NintendoDS). Many of these videos have seen mirror uploads on Platform/YouTube, and many more are still hidden from public eyes.
89	* The earliest portions of the ''Roleplay/LeagueOfIntergalacticCosmicChampions'' were erased from the web (although various posters had offline copies of most of it), the copies were later put up on a Platform/GeoCities site. Thanks to Yahoo shuttering [=GeoCities=] in 2009, it is now gone again from the web.
90	* ''Blog/LimyaaelsFantasyRants'': Limyaael's first Faean novels, the Orlath trilogy, were taken down from Fiction Press due to someone plagiarizing them (Or something). Which is a real shame, because what little is known about the plot of those novels, both through Limyaael's comments and the other novels taking place in the same universe, seem to indicate that the trilogy was an absolutely '''brilliant''' DeconstructiveParody of cliched fantasy.
91	* Most of the first season of ''WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun'' is unavailable; in the early days, videos would be phased out to make room for newer ones (this was before the existence of [=YouTube=]). Most of the episodes have not been reposted, due to some of them having copyrighted music, the crew being busy with other things, and that most of them [[OldShame were just plain bad]].
92	* Several early ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'' videos have been removed from the official listing (in some cases, probably due to copyright infringement); namely, "First Blog / Dorkiness Prevails", "School Work in Summer... BLECHH!!!", "Grillz feat. Danielbeast, [=LG15=], P. Monkey and O'n.", "Proving Science Wrong", "My Lazy Eye (and P. Monkey gets Funky!)", "The Tolstoy Principle (and Dad "talks" to Daniel)" and "Daniel, Be Careful". The videos are referenced on numerous occasions in later episodes and still viewable on [=YouTube=]. The later series 1 episode "Uncle Dan (D-Bone Remix)" is missing from both [=lg15.com=] and [=YouTube=], but is viewable on Revver.
93	** Sequel series ''WebVideo/LG15TheResistance'' lost every video posted to Sarah's channel ([=theskyisempty99=]) when that channel was hacked and had all its videos deleted. Most of the videos got preserved by the [[RecapEpisode Recap Episodes]], but all three volumes of "Fun Things to Do in Hiding" and "Here's the Deal" only survive in the form of transcripts on [=LGPedia=].
94	* The success of WebVideo/MarbleHornets [[FollowTheLeader led to the creation]] of ''dozens'' of parodies and original vlogs, many of which were subsequently abandoned (for a variety of reasons) and removed. A list of dead/inactive series can be found [[http://slenderversemedia.tumblr.com/post/22318540237/finished-inactive-dead-blogs-vlogs here]] and [[http://slenderverse.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Slenderseries here]].
95	* ''LetsPlay/MarioPartyTV'':
96	** The players have made mention of 'lost episodes', gameplays that for one reason or another was either not uploaded onto the channel or not recorded altogether. One noted one was a run on Mario Party 7's Grand Canal sometime before the playthrough for the Summer Salt season, one where (yet again) Mr. Doom had an insanely good amount of luck. Clips from that episode were used as The Stinger for the 'canon' playthrough. Mr. Doom ended up finding two lost episodes (a playthrough of 6's Castaway Bay and a playthrough of 5's Toy Dream) when he was going through his hard drive and posted them on his personal account.
97	** According to Mr. Doom, nearly two whole ''seasons'' worth of episodes were wiped out when his hard drive crashed, and it took them longer to redo those episodes because of real life commitments and circumstances. The Shy Guy's Perplex Express episode had to be done ''three'' times before it stuck. The second attempt was eventually salvaged and posted on Mr. Doom's personal account, along with what he could salvage from the ''first'' attempt.
98	* Game music podcast ''Podcast/NitroGameInjection'' has two missing episodes: #6, which happened but wasn't recorded, and #54, which [=KyleJCrb=] isn't sure [[UnInstallment ever actually happened...]]
99	* WebVideo/NitroRad's review of the game ''Heartbeat'' was taken down after the lead developer made some extremely transphobic public statements.
100	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's first livestream, which was unrecorded. Ellis also took down her review of ''Film/Dune1984'' after considerable criticism was leveled at her unprofessional behavior in it, and soon thereafter posted an apology video in which she admitted to letting her dislike for the movie lead to not treating it with her normal standards of conduct. [[https://lostmediawiki.com/The_Nostalgia_Chick_%22Dune,_yo%22_(found_episode_of_online_video_review_series;_2010) As of Sept. 2014, the video can now be found through the Lost Media wiki.]]
101	* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' was going to have a tribute video dedicated to Rachel, who left the show as of the ''Film/FaceOff'' review. As mentioned in the actual episode, this video was accidentally deleted.
102	* ''WebVideo/OddityArchive''[='=]s first [=LaserKaraoke=] installment is this due to a copyright claim from [=TrungTamAsiaChannel=].
103	* WebVideo/PartyCrashers: There are multiple ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' sessions that the group have played together that have never been made into videos on any of their channels and can only be viewed by going through previous stream archives. What's worse is that Twitch automatically deletes streams ''3'' months later, so the only way to watch these sessions after ''3'' months is by viewing Nick (in 2024 onward), Sophist, or Vernias' perspectives, as the latter two stream on [=YouTube=] instead, while Nick has a [[https://www.youtube.com/@TCNick3Vods seperate channel]] for archiving his [=VODs=]. And even then, any private dialogue or facecam footage that are only seen from Nick (pre-2024) or Brent's perspectives are lost forever after the allocated ''3'' months.
104	* Due to antisemetic remarks, [=YouTuber=] WebVideo/PewDiePie had the second season of his show ''Scare [=PewDiePie=]'' cancelled, with him saying that it'll probably never see the light of day.
105	* Many pixel doll websites have long been offline since the community's heyday in the early-to-mid-2000s, causing many dolls and bases to go missing. While many of these sites can be accessed through the Website/WaybackMachine, often times they're almost or completely broken.
106	* ''[[WebVideo/RebelTaxi The Pizza Party Podcast]]''[='s=] 13th episode is all questions and answers, as Pan forgot to record his audio for the first part. The other podcasters lampshade the first half's status as a lost episode though.
107	* The website [[http://www.romhackers.org/modules/news/ P.O.B.R.E.]] is dedicated to archiving translation and romhacks in Brazillian Portuguese. Unfortunately, the are a few [[http://www.romhackers.org/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=64 missing translations]].
108	* After several years of mounting pressure, the biggest porn website on the Internet, Pornhub, finally removed all unverified accounts in 2020, losing approximately ''10 million'' video clips in the process (as well as their search bar autofill feature). It's likely that some of these videos had already been copied at least once from their original sources, no longer extant.
109	* Pornographic pay websites often have some videos that simply vanish after a while. Reasons vary, from the video being unpopular to unforeseen legal troubles to the girl turning out to be underage, but one rather heartwarming example is the "Sandra" episode from the famous ''Bangbus'' site. The reason Sandra's video disappeared from the site? [[RomanceOnTheSet She and the webmaster got married!]]
110	* ''Podcast/RandomAssault'': Episode 024. And the original "pilot", the Podcast/TalkRadar Fan Extravaganza has never been rereleased.
111	* While most of WebVideo/Rank10YGO's Pathetic Aesthetic streams [[note]]a series in which Rata and Jimbles critique ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card artwork[[/note]] were uploaded to his [=YouTube=] channel well after they aired on Twitch, Rata has stated that the D/D/D stream footage is "unsalvageable" and will not be uploaded. Rata and Jimbles eventually re-recorded this stream in 2024.
112	* LetsPlay/{{slowbeef}} and LetsPlay/{{Diabetus}} had a test run of a ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'' livestream, but never bothered to save the video of it. Thankfully, one person watching actually ''did'' save the recording and it was later put up.
113	* One episode of ''LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys''[='=] Let's Plays of ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' and ''[=LittleBigPlanet=] 2'' is missing due to the file being corrupted, which means it must be rerecorded. You'd think LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} would do backups...
114	* The [=SAKs=] channels were once a huge presence on Platform/YouTube, hosting skit videos made by girls aged around 12-16. However, after the creator of the channels was arrested for sexual abuse of a minor, all the videos were taken down. While some of the videos were reuploaded by the creators, the sheer number of videos means that many have been lost.
115	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
116	** Prominent writer Fishmonger had a falling out with the site and demanded his works be deleted under threat of legal action. His [=SCPs=] and other works are lost - or not, since an archive of (most) of his works can be found [[https://ia601005.us.archive.org/16/items/SCPFoundationTheFishmonger/ here]]. However, they can't be found on the SCP-wiki anymore. The others that are not included with the zip really are lost though.
117	** Following the June 2018 Pride Month controversy, Von Pincier left the site, and thus the entries he wrote were taken down - the most famous of those, SCP-1548: The Hateful Star, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/now-i-understand-the-problems-you-can-see earned a "post-mortem"]] (as a ContinuityNod, the number is now taken by "The Star, the Hateful").
118	* ''The Lost Media Chronicles'' by WebVideo/ShoegazerProductions has a missing episode, as ironic as that sounds. Episode 49 - Dubs went missing because it used voice work done by someone else as a joke. It disappeared not long after creator Randy [=McNeely=] was removed from the Lost Media Wiki due to some internal conflicts that have yet to be made public. Seeing as the person who provided the voice work (whose name will not be mentioned here to avoid further drama) was an admin of the wiki himself, the episode's disappearance is likely related to Randy's departure from the site.
119	* The episode of WebVideo/TheSlowMoGuys featuring Sam Pepper is no longer available on the main channel, though reuploads exist and the video was removed ''before'' Sam made a general ass of himself.
120	* WebVideo/SmashMasterShow has enough of these to [[MissingEpisode/SmashMasterShow warrant its own page.]]
121	* The superhero web serial Literature/StarHarborNights could no longer be found online, though it is on [[http://web.archive.org/web/20140823104720/http://www.starharbornights.com/ The Wayback Machine]].
122	* The ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' Platform/YouTube group ''Team Crafted'' had an example of this after they collectively voted out one of their members, [=SetoSorcerer=], after a Skype call. This was reportedly due to several members of the group (including [=BajanCanadian=], the one who put the idea forward in the first place) expressing displeasure with Seto's recording style and not opting to appear at public ''Minecraft'' events like the rest of the group. Seto's explanation video of this break, where he described getting kicked out of the group and falling into a deep depression as a result, was uploaded for a short time before being taken down and reuploaded with a number of remarks removed (supposedly for "legal reasons"). He has requested that fans take down mirrors of the original video, which they have complied with. Because of this, the video can no longer be found.
123	* In December of 2018, due to massive controversy prior, Website/{{Tumblr}} enacted a ban for NSFW content and essentially purged a large portion of both NSFW and even some SFW content hosted on the site entirely, including those from adult artists and writers, both active and inactive. While some have reposted their artwork on the likes of Website/{{Twitter}} and Platform/{{Newgrounds}}, and some NSFW content has managed to slip through the cracks, a large amount of the site's adult content is now lost to the public and with Tumblr having no plans to revoke the ban and having [[https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/12/19/008231/tumblr-blocked-archivists-just-before-starting-the-nsfw-content-purge blocked attempts of archivists who attempted to archive it]], may very well be lost forever if it hasn't been reposted on another site or archived.
124	* A number of TV Tropes forum threads went missing around 2010 when the site owners purged old threads in order to save space and bandwidth. Among these is e.g. the first season of ''Roleplay/TheMassiveMultiFandomRPG''; essentially all that remains of it is its accompanying discussion thread and a recap page on the wiki.
125	* No recording is known to exist of the first several days of ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed'', back before the stream became very popular. As a result, not much is known about the details of what happened then. The community generally refers to this period as the "Lost Days".
126	* One of the threads that the work known as Website/{{Update}} consists of was deleted from the forum it's hosted on, but still exists in a PDF archive being [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes circulated]] and downloadable.
127	* Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s, Creator/{{Voltalia}} had a [=YouTube=] channel called "voltarsgirlfriend" that housed, among many things, several [=AMVs=] and a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover video series called ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Highschool.'' She accidentally closed it a couple years later and deleted all of Season 1 and part of Season 2 in the process.
128	* ''Podcast/WhoBackWhen'' doesn't have any missing episodes of its own. It does, however, make a point of reviewing the missing episodes of ''MissingEpisode/DoctorWho'', using reconstructions and audiobooks where available.
129	* ''{{WebVideo/Xiil3gendaryzetsubou}}'' lost some of their early unrecorded streams for ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', as well as all episodes of their ''VideoGame/Persona5'' and ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' Let's Plays.

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