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  • Achievement Hunter:
    • Their let's play of the Magic: The Gathering Xbox Live arcade game was apparently filmed, but not uploaded. Any reference they make to it implies that it was incredibly boring.
    • An episode of 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 YouTube, however.
    • 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.
  • Due to 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  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 Flashpoint had been racing to archive old Flash games before they disappear, and 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 MAC, SXW, and DXF), it was undoubtedly the most high-profile due to its sheer ubiquity at its peak.
  • An early website for Back to the Future: The Ride 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 two captures of the blueprints section, and neither one successfully captured all of the blueprints.
  • "Secret Missing Episodes" of Barney Bunch 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.
  • Campus Life ended up falling victim to this as well, with 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 inactivatynote  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.
  • From Channel Awesome:
    • A video by Doug Walker were he dresses up as Osama Bin Laden.
      • "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.
    • A video by That Dude in the Suede that ranted against YouTube's takedowns of The Nostalgia Critic episodes which caught the interest of Doug Walker and in turn was responsible for Channel Awesome 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.
      • The first version of Neon Genesis Evangelion in 5 seconds. Will deleted it from his channel because he thought it was way too long.
    • The Spoony One's old film riffs. They were removed from his site in 2008 and he doesn't plan in releasing then again.
      • 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.
      • The first three sessions of Spoony's Dungeons & Dragons Campaign. They were not recorded by LordKaT and we only have RolloT's recap of them.
    • The first "Benzaie versus Handsome Tom" match, the Street Fighter IV Challenge, were the game glitched and Tom won. It was originally posted on 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 revenge video.
      • Benzaie's recorded livestreams on his original USTREAM account, which was closed due to Ben violating Terms of Service.
    • Every single video made by Daniel "That Aussie Guy" Rizzo for Channel Awesome (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.
    • Bennett the Sage:
      • His Elfen Lied: The Abridged Series. The first 11 episodes were taken down from YouTube and Episode 12 was never released.
      • 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 My Immortal.
      • 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.
    • Out of the seven videos that That Chick With The Goggles made for the site, only three were released on her YouTube account and her blip.tv account was deleted.
    • The second episode of 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.
    • Every single Mobled Queen era film made by Dark Maze Studios.
    • After 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.
      • His LiveJournal account was taken down, taking various posts that were both funny and informative.
    • Brad Jones has several:
      • His first directorial effort 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 Old Shame by the man himself.
      • Another of his early movies 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.
      • His The Cinema Snob 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.)
      • 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 compared the episode's rarity to the McRib. It has been fully restored by now.
      • The very first Midnight Screenings episode, which had Brad and Jerrid Foiles reviewing 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.
      • 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 The Day the Clown Cried would come out before Shot on Shitteo does.)
      • 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.
      • A number of his reviews are not available because either it'd get flagged by 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 Can't Stop the Music as an example of the latter in a livestream, and also in his "Choose Your Own Guttenberg" special given it's the only of the actor's movies which doesn't warrant any clips). Fans have kept many of them online, though not all on Platform/Youtube (where one of those uploads notes his old Real Song Theme Tune "Believe It Or Not" apparently leads to automatic copyright takedowns).
    • Brows Held High episode on The Girlfriend Experience 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 Crispin Glover'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 Keep Circulating the Tapes efforts after Blip shut down.
    • Diamanda Hagan 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.
    • That SciFi Guy 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,
      • 5/5 Star Trek Characters
      • An English version of Rollerball
      • Splice (2012) ... That Sci-fi Guy
      • TFG: Stardust (2012) ... That Sci-fi Guy
      • Wild Wild West (2012) ... That Sci-fi Guy
      • First Impressions V-Log: Final Destination 5 (2011) ... That Sci-fi Guy
      • First Impressions V-Log: Green Lantern (2011) ... That Sci-fi Guy
      • Really, Internet? - Action Comics (2011) ... That Sci-fi Guy
      • And Another Thing: Jocks vs. Geeks (2011)
      • Unboxing the Matrix: Setinel (2011) ... That Sci-fi Guy
      • Really, Internet? - Taco Bell Meat (2011) ... That Sci-fi Guy
      • Really, Internet? - Green Lantern (2010) ... That Sci-fi Guy
      • And Another Thing: Smallville (2010) ... That Sci-fi Guy
    • Once Pushing Up Roses got her Blip channel deleted, many of the videos seem to have disappeared, most notably her review of The Monkees movies. (she has at most put the Head one on Patreon)
    • While Y: Ruler of Time's crossover review of The Last Airbender has a full transcript, the video itself is hard to find.
    • Considering Chuck infamously had to switch video hosts 7 (!) times, it’s probably easier to list SF Debris 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.
      • His "bonus" review of the 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.
    • When #ChangeTheChannel resulted in everyone who wasn't Doug Walker or Brad Jonesnote  leaving Channel Awesome 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.
  • CNHubNicktoons has more than a few:
    • 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 this video and the CN/Hub/Nicktoons on 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 YouTube" block being removed completely for a major rebrand of the livestream channel and the video being deleted, making the whole series lost.
    • 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 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.
      • The aforementioned three videos were also taken down on February 13, 2015 to avoid copyright strikes and MattBoo hating a select couple, making the last traces of the original CNHubNicktoons extinct.
      • 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 (well, some of them, anyways).
      • Those flipnotes have since been available on Flipnote Studio 3D, via through the Nintendo DSi Gallery (the only online feature in North America).
  • After Chris Savino was terminated from Nickelodeon for a reported history of 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 The Loud House 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.
  • Chuggaaconroy once had a whole lost series, devoted mainly to showing Pokémon Platinum'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 Old Shame, though he would eventually restored all 88 videos and compiled them into their own playlist on July 15, 2016, due to immense fan demand. Chugga also had a "Fifty Facts" video, where 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 here.
  • Despite many copyright claims making their mark on episodes of Cinematic Excrement, the entire series has been preserved on Sean Moore's Vimeo account... except for episode 53, a review of The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!. This was taken down in 2018 when it was revealed that Justin "JewWario" Carmical, to whom the episode was made in tribute, was a sexual predator.
  • ClickHole originally had a video called, "If You Grew Up With 'Calvin and Hobbes,' You Need To Watch This Right Now". It was a Rule 34 video. The video was soon removed, and trying to view it through the site's URL redirects you to the YouTube page of the removed video.
  • ContraPoints: All videos prior to Natalie Wynn's transition were removed from the channel in 2020, although transcripts are still available on the website.
  • CUT!, a Slender Man blog that was distinguished by its heavy use of Gallows Humor, has been wiped clean of entries.
  • Several writers of the original Darwin's Soldiers RP on Furtopia played out scenes via private messaging. Those scenes were never released.
  • Several DEATH BATTLE! 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 Beerus VS Sailor Galaxia and the TMNT Battle Royale.
  • The Viral Marketing sites for District 9note  have been lost completely. The unofficial wiki captured a few screenshots and preserved some of the information in text form, but anything added to the sites after 2008 was lost.
  • Draw Your Own Story 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.
  • Drawfee infamously lost one of their Random Shapes Challenge videos due to the screen capture becoming corrupted. The episode was a Noodle Incident for a time because Julia, having been tasked to draw a character, decided to draw a room full of vampires. The incident was later animated by Karina and inspired an episode of Beans.
  • FanFiction.Net 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 Wayback Machine thanks to the site's infamous use of 'robots.txt' in its code, keeping the machine from working with the site. Even many famous Play-by-Post 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 specifically for the Forums) have long since jumped ship a long time ago, leaving many Forum archives virtual ghost towns even for popular franchises like Pokémon. 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.
  • Summer Games Done Quick 2015 had a run of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, 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 issued DMCA takedowns on YouTube reuploads of the run. However, it can still be viewed on the Twitch replay.
  • Episode 376 of 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...
  • TheHolyCabbage was a relatively popular YouTube channel in the early 2010s dedicated to dramatic readings of So Bad, It's Good Fan Fic. 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 legolas by laura, inaccessible. Then, in mid-2021, their playlists were taken down too, rendering their entire channel lost.
  • Some posts from Hyperbole and a Half 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 embarrassingly bad.
  • The first episode of Incognito Cinema Warriors XP (Bride of the Gorilla) is no longer available for order or download: a combination of format changes in subsequent episodes, dissatisfaction with the quality of the episode and a lack of desire to redo it in the current format.
  • The It Gets Better Project has a couple:
    • The 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.
    • Oscar Pistorius' video was taken down after he was charged with murdering his girlfriend.
  • Jack Douglass of Jacks Films 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 apology, admitting that he was just trying to be "edgy".
  • The "Hotbox" episode of Jake and Amir was never officially uploaded to YouTube for obvious reasons.
  • JonTron is somewhat infamous for this, having either privatized or deleted numerous episodes simply out of Old Shame. 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 Nintendo DS). Many of these videos have seen mirror uploads on YouTube, and many more are still hidden from public eyes.
  • The earliest portions of the League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions were erased from the web (although various posters had offline copies of most of it), the copies were later put up on a GeoCities site. Thanks to Yahoo shuttering GeoCities in 2009, it is now gone again from the web.
  • Limyaael's Fantasy Rants: 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 Deconstructive Parody of cliched fantasy.
  • Most of the first season of 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 were just plain bad.
  • Several early 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.
    • Sequel series LG15: the resistance 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 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.
  • The success of Marble Hornets 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 here and here.
  • Mario Party TV:
    • 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.
    • 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.
  • Game music podcast Nitro Game Injection has two missing episodes: #6, which happened but wasn't recorded, and #54, which KyleJCrb isn't sure ever actually happened...
  • Nitro Rad's review of the game Heartbeat was taken down after the lead developer made some extremely transphobic public statements.
  • The Nostalgia Chick's first livestream, which was unrecorded. Ellis also took down her review of Dune (1984) 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. As of Sept. 2014, the video can now be found through the Lost Media wiki.
  • The Nostalgia Critic was going to have a tribute video dedicated to Rachel, who left the show as of the Face/Off review. As mentioned in the actual episode, this video was accidentally deleted.
  • Oddity Archive's first LaserKaraoke installment is this due to a copyright claim from TrungTamAsiaChannel.
  • There have been multiple Mario Party sessions that the Party Crashers have played together that have never been released as videos on any of their channels and are only available through watching previous stream archives. What's worse is that Twitch automatically deletes streams three months later, so the only way to watch these sessions after three months is by Sophist or Vernias' perspectives, as both of them stream on YouTube instead. And even then, any private dialogue or facecam footage that are only seen from Nick or Brent's perspectives are lost forever after the allocated three months.
  • Due to antisemetic remarks, YouTuber PewDiePie had the second season of his show Scare PewDiePie cancelled, with him saying that it'll probably never see the light of day.
  • 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 Wayback Machine, often times they're almost or completely broken.
  • 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.
  • The website P.O.B.R.E. is dedicated to archiving translation and romhacks in Brazillian Portuguese. Unfortunately, the are a few missing translations.
  • 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.
  • 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? She and the webmaster got married!
  • Random Assault: Episode 024. And the original "pilot", the Talk Radar Fan Extravaganza has never been rereleased.
  • While most of Rank10YGO's Pathetic Aesthetic streams 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.
  • slowbeef and Diabetus had a test run of a 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.
  • One episode of The Runaway Guys' Let's Plays of LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2 is missing due to the file being corrupted, which means it must be rerecorded. You'd think Chuggaaconroy would do backups...
  • The SAKs channels were once a huge presence on 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.
  • SCP Foundation:
    • 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 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.
    • 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, earned a "post-mortem" (as a Continuity Nod, the number is now taken by "The Star, the Hateful").
  • The Lost Media Chronicles by Shoegazer Productions 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.
  • The episode of The Slow Mo Guys 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.
  • Smash Master Show has enough of these to warrant its own page.
  • The superhero web serial Star Harbor Nights could no longer be found online, though it is on The Wayback Machine.
  • The Minecraft 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.
  • In December of 2018, due to massive controversy prior, 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 Twitter and 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 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.
  • 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 The Massive Multi-Fandom RPG; essentially all that remains of it is its accompanying discussion thread and a recap page on the wiki.
  • No recording is known to exist of the first several days of Twitch Plays Pokémon Red, 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".
  • One of the threads that the work known as Update consists of was deleted from the forum it's hosted on, but still exists in a PDF archive being circulated and downloadable.
  • Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s, Voltalia had a YouTube channel called "voltarsgirlfriend" that housed, among many things, several AMVs and a Massive Multiplayer Crossover video series called Total Drama Highschool. She accidentally closed it a couple years later and deleted all of Season 1 and part of Season 2 in the process.
  • Who Back When doesn't have any missing episodes of its own. It does, however, make a point of reviewing the missing episodes of Doctor Who, using reconstructions and audiobooks where available.
  • Xiil3gendaryzetsubou lost some of their early unrecorded streams for Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, as well as all episodes of their Persona 5 and Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors Let's Plays.

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