Machinima removes all of their YouTube videos -

[nostalgiaisadrug]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/1/19/18189611/machinima-youtube-fullscreen-warner-bros-multi-channel-network

One of the oldest YouTube channels Machinima has deleted all their videos from their YouTube channel. That’s about 12 years of content since they launched their channel in January 2006.

There’s about 18 videos that are left on their channel but their private or unlisted.

All of their side channels like Respawn , Happy Hour, and Inside Gaming

This is probably in relation to Machinima being sold to Fullscreen
(which is owned by AT&T and Warner Media)

Warner Media been shutting down other companies that just been recently owned by AT&T such as Super Deluxe and Filmstruck.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/variet...k-shutdown-warnermedia-turner-1202998364/amp/

 

[BerriesArnold]

At least someone recorded "The Cunt Life". An Inside Gaming classic. I hope someone archived all of their old videos somewhere.

Other than that, Machinima's had it coming for a long time now. After the main crew left, there really was no point in the channel anymore.

 

[Spicy Hog]

Rest in piss faggots

 

[CWCchange]

F, I forgot about that channel.

 

[lil bitch]

totally forgot machinima was a thing, wasn't it a really fuckin bad network, too?

 

[Johnny Bravo]

I'm not sad for Machinima. I am sad that a piece of internet history is gone. Hopefully some of the videos have mirrors.

 

[Otis Boi]

I think this comment speaks for itself:

 

[Coccxys]

I'm not sad for Machinima. I am sad that a piece of internet history is gone. Hopefully some of the videos have mirrors.

We have set up an entire culture that is going to leave no history. Internet sites die, videos get deleted, video games become virtually unplayable (mid 90s PC games anyone?). Most early internet culture is only alive in our memories with no retrievable traces anymore. We're setting ourselves up for a real life Ozymandias situation.

 

[XYZpdq]

Or you could just download it yourself if you really gave a fuck

 

[HiddenFist]

Machinima was badly managed just like CA.

 

[Richardo Retardo]

I think this comment speaks for itself:
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I can't help but imagine what the person who typed that comment looks like and it makes me chuckle.

 

[ES 148]

Thank God the Half Life Full Life Consequences videos are only called machinima and not part of the network

 

[_blank_]

I used to watch Machinima back when they hosted Freeman's Mind and were actually about, y'know, promoting Machinima (as in using computer graphics and vidya to create cinematic clips, short movies, etc.). When they stopped doing that I just stopped giving a shit. As I understand, they were essentially in a downward spiral for, what, like half a decade now at least? They have about as much relevancy on YouTube now as Fred or lonelygirl15, channels that were a thing back in YT's heyday, but now are just artifacts of a bygone era.

Pretty much all the good stuff has been on the actual creator's channels for a while so this isn't a huge loss, at least for me.

Anyway, good luck to Fullscreen. Pretty sure you just bought yourself a huge fucking lemon, but whatever.

 

[Troutsmacked]

I had no idea Machinma was still creating content. I thought they ended their Youtube production around the same time Chris Crocker and Fred Figglehorn did.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

All I remember of them was they uploaded edited versions of early Half in the Bag episodes before RLM got around to do it themselves.

Good riddance I say.

 

[Quijibo69]

Looks like nothing of value was lost. F

 

[DNA_JACKED]

While Machinima itself offered little to nothing on modern day YouTube, the fact that years of history, of content, can just be wiped out in a second is very concerning. There is no good way to back up entire YouTube channels other then one video at a time, which is a massive undertaking with something like Machinima.

I backed up most of E;R's channel when the media started going after him, and it took goddamn forever, and the dude has, what, 30 videos?

We need some sort of tool that can back up entire channels without having to go through 7000 links one at a time, just for archival's sake. As more media moves onto an online format, the need for a way to archive said content will become more pressing. I fear that others here are right, and we are heading into an era where the past is completely forgotten within a few weeks if a company either treads the wrong way with SJWs or is bought by another company. Hell, look at all the channels under, say, maker studios. Imagine if maker took them all down somehow.

 

[Tesshollidaysflupaknees]

I completely forgot about Machinima. The last time I heard about them was when they bought arby and chief.

 

[Jerry_ smith56]

Man I am going to miss those 1000 ways to die in GTA videos. That's all I can say.

 

[Incredible Crisis]

While Machinima itself offered little to nothing on modern day YouTube, the fact that years of history, of content, can just be wiped out in a second is very concerning. There is no good way to back up entire YouTube channels other then one video at a time, which is a massive undertaking with something like Machinima.

I backed up most of E;R's channel when the media started going after him, and it took goddamn forever, and the dude has, what, 30 videos?

We need some sort of tool that can back up entire channels without having to go through 7000 links one at a time, just for archival's sake. As more media moves onto an online format, the need for a way to archive said content will become more pressing. I fear that others here are right, and we are heading into an era where the past is completely forgotten within a few weeks if a company either treads the wrong way with SJWs or is bought by another company. Hell, look at all the channels under, say, maker studios. Imagine if maker took them all down somehow.

Learn how to archive and back up content. Support outlets that do. Just because the EU wants the "right to be forgotten" doesn't mean that has any basis in reality.