History KeepCirculatingTheTapes / WebOriginal

* The ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' fan user [=MegaCocorock=] takes this concept to its logical extreme; he has developed several BossRush-styled ''Mega Man'' fangames, but is so paranoid about having his assets stolen that he only uploads gameplay videos of them, which he [[OrwellianRetcon takes down after a certain period]]. This makes it effectively impossible for anyone outside of him to actually ''play'' the fangames.

* Platform/BlipTV went under in 2015. Many content providers managed to upload their videos elsewhere... [[ScrewedByTheLawyers if the copyright claims on]] Website/YouTube, Website/{{Vimeo}}[[ScrewedByTheLawyers , etc. allowed them to do so]] (some changed at least the most blatant copyvio to bypass this). Yet others still have their productions MIA - even worse for those that had their channels deleted once Maker Studios acquired Blip in 2012 and decided to streamline the website's content.

* Who would've ever thought Website/GeoCities would go down? How many thousands of sites were lost? Granted, most of them sucked, but still!

* The work of many Website/ChannelAwesome reviewers are often found only through fan uploads (specially videos made in the aforementioned Blip, given Website/YouTube's copyright policies get brutal at times):

* Once a Website/YouTube video is deleted, it's gone. ''Permanently''. Unless there's a reupload of it or it got archived in Wayback Machine, there's '''''NO''''' way of finding a deleted Youtube video. If it doesn't get reuploaded or archived, any evidence of a deleted Youtube video is gone for eternity.

* Any time a Website/{{YouTube}} channel gets too many TOS violations it is obviously taken down, which isn't typically a huge loss except if said channel hosted a lot of valuable/rare videos, e.g. one called "Hezakya Music and Newz" that featured an informative CBS special called "You and the Commercial", a video compilation of news reports about the landmark ''Loving vs. Virginia'' Supreme Court case that struck down anti-mixed race marriage laws throughout the U.S, and an important ''five hour long compilation of early news reports about HIV/AIDS'' that served a real historic and educational purpose.
* Although Creator/MelissaHunter removed the episodes of ''WebVideo/AdultWednesdayAddams'' from her Website/{{YouTube}} channel after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the Charles Addams estate, fans of the series reuploaded the videos so they could still be seen and enjoyed (albeit not legally).

** Even after Sega redesigned [=SakuraTaisen.com=] again in March 2019, the original video content that was on the Sega Channel wasn't converted when it was shut down in late 2010, so fans searching for the original promotional videos outside of Website/YouTube will be completely out of luck.

* Natalie Tran of ''WebVideo/CommunityChannel'' has deleted almost all of her oldest videos from her channel. Archives of them exist in obscure corners of Website/YouTube and the internet though, with some easier to find than others, and a good possibility that there are some which are lost forever.

* Unlike fellow Website/{{Keentoons}} ''WebAnimation/SpaceTree'' and ''WebAnimation/BonusStage'', ''WebAnimation/RobotboxAndCactus'' hasn't been uploaded to Website/YouTube, and due to the death of UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash, it can be very difficult to see any episode of the series without an old version of Flash Player or an old browser that has it as a plugin.
* One of the most popular comedy personalities in the earliest years of Website/YouTube was tokenblackchic, who ultimately decided to delete her channel. The only traces that now remain of her channel's existence are a few videos that have been reuploaded on other channels, and the channel's [[https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/tokenblackchic/videos/mostviewed Social Blade stats]], which show that she had almost 40k subscribers (a lot for the time period), and ''almost ten million video views''.

* ''The Bamboolais'', an extremely obscure webtoon from 2001 that only ever had 5 episodes released for it and was available on a website called The Born Image, as well as on Website/{{Newgrounds}}. The Born Image went defunct in 2006, and the Newgrounds mirrors of the episodes are gone too, with only ''one'' episode known to survive on the Internet Archive. The only surviving snippet of another episode is a single image. The series also had a Flash game released for it called "Terry in the Dark", which survived for a surprisingly long time after the rest of ''The Bamboolais'' was lost, but the game was later taken down as well. If you plan to try to find the whole series, '''''good luck.'''''

** Most of ''WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh'' pre-2015 output survives through unofficial uploads, given Kyle [[CreatorBacklash regrets his old more comedic style compared to current analytical one]] and is also a victim of copyright. Of special note is ''What Is It'' (as director Creator/CrispinGlover asked for a takedown - Youtube uploads usually fall, but [[https://archive.org/details/BrowsHeldHighWhatIsItHD the Internet Archive has a copy]]) and ''The Girlfriend Experience'' (only existed on Blip with commentary as Kyle didn't like the backlash that accused him of slut shaming - amusingly, when Blip fell, the original version of ''The Girlfriend Experience'' was mirrored on various sites, while the commentary version has disappeared).

* Platform/BlipTV went under in 2015. Many content providers managed to upload their videos elsewhere... [[ScrewedByTheLawyers if the copyright claims on [=YouTube=], Platform/{{Vimeo}}, etc. allowed them to do so]] (some changed at least the most blatant copyvio to bypass this). Yet others still have their productions MIA - even worse for those that had their channels deleted once Maker Studios acquired Blip in 2012 and decided to streamline the website's content.

* Platform/BlipTV went under in 2015. Many content providers managed to upload their videos elsewhere... [[ScrewedByTheLawyers if the copyright claims on [=YouTube=], Vimeo, etc. allowed them to do so]] (some changed at least the most blatant copyvio to bypass this). Yet others still have their productions MIA - even worse for those that had their channels deleted once Maker Studios acquired Blip in 2012 and decided to streamline the website's content.

* While a lot of Nash's old [[Webvideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou WTFIWWY videos]], Doctor Who reviews, and some of his Here There Be Dragons fantasy movie reviews are on Youtube and Vimeo, his review of ''The Crow'' is still missing as of Vid.me's shutdown.

* Former [=YouTube=] vlogger Miss Hannah Minx, who has been inactive since late-2013, had all of her videos on both her main and [=BonusMinx=] channels suddenly set to private in July of 2021, not helping the fact that all of the original video [=URLs=] also were blacklisted from the Wayback Machine entirely. The only way to watch her videos now is through reuploads, although an [[https://archive.org/details/HannahMinx_Archive archive containing most of her surviving videos was created several years prior to her original channels' mass-privatizations]], however, some videos still remain at large.

* Former [=YouTube=] vlogger Miss Hannah Minx, who has been inactive since late-2013, had all of her videos on both her main and [=BonusMinx=] channels suddenly set to private in July of 2021, not helping the fact that all of the original video URLs also were blacklisted from the Wayback Machine entirely. The only way to watch her videos now is through reuploads, although an [[https://archive.org/details/HannahMinx_Archive archive of most of her surviving was created several years prior to her original channels' mass-privatizations]], however, some videos still remain at large.

* ''The Stupid Adventures of LetsPlay/TacoMan'' has been removed from Samination's [=YouTube=] and Newgrounds channels, even though the character remains active in ''Taco-Man Plays a Video Game''. Creator Sam T. has stated on twitter that ''The Stupid Adventures'' is now embarrassing and outdated to him, and that he has no plans to re-upload it on the sites. However, one ''Stupid Adventure'', "Knock it Off", currently remains viewable on Sam's Vessel page.

** Every single video made by [[UnPerson Daniel "That Aussie Guy" Rizzo]] for Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses (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.

* Sometime in 2014 ImageShack deleted many, many images which had been stored on its servers for years, in order to "save space", which has infuriated a lot of users. A lot of websites around the Internet are now pockmarked with Imageshack's logo in place of former images. Any images not saved previously are presumably permanently lost.

* This problem became so widespread in Google search results, where links there no longer point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server, but rather 404 or NXDOMAIN, making them broken, dead or orphan, led to the search engine creating a "soft 404" label to eradicate the issue and accept only quality pages.

* Website/BlipTV went under in 2015. Many content providers managed to upload their videos elsewhere... [[ScrewedByTheLawyers if the copyright claims on [=YouTube=], Vimeo, etc. allowed them to do so]] (some changed at least the most blatant copyvio to bypass this). Yet others still have their productions MIA - even worse for those that had their channels deleted once Maker Studios acquired Blip in 2012 and decided to streamline the website's content.

* {{Invoked|Trope}} with ''WebVideo/UnusAnnus'', a channel created by Mark Fischbach ({{LetsPlay/Markiplier}}) and Ethan Nestor ([[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2S7CGceq5tsuhcVyACdA3g CrankGamePlays]]). All of the videos were lost when the channel was deleted on November 14, 2020, exactly a year after ''Unus Annus'' was started. Mark and Ethan are well aware that people will reupload the videos and have pointed out that, if possible, the videos ''will'' be taken down. The only way to see the channel's videos now is via the unauthorized reuploads, and only time will tell if any of these reuploads remain or if all of them are removed from the web.