Why people actually trust google/youtube to not delete or lose content amazes me. If you want to keep it, store it locally with backups and encrypted remote backups. Its gotten cheap enough that it is not that big of a deal to do. Two copies on-site. A minimum of 1 (ideally two) copies off-site and ideally in different regions. Archive: https://archive.today/8j4Uw From the post: >>I've published 500 videos in 18 years on my YouTube channel. It was different back in 2006, when I moved from Google Videos over to YouTube. Monetization wasn't a thing, and we all just posted video online for the fun of it. Fast forward to today, and it seems like AI slop is set to take over the entire platform, proving the Dead Internet Theory right. You have AI videos with AI bots watching and commenting, and YouTube enables it by plastering unskippable ads everywhere! They make money, AI farms make money, everyone's happy! ...except for you and me.