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3 minutes ago, Delirious said:

I think youtube spoecifically made it so that any person who has uploaded any video on youtube will not get deleted no matter how inactive they are.

 

only accounts that havent posted anything on youtube will get deleted.

 

makes the mose sense this way

oh :gaycat6:

 

Crisis avoided then :thing:

Posted
14 minutes ago, Delirious said:

I think youtube spoecifically made it so that any person who has uploaded any video on youtube will not get deleted no matter how inactive they are.

 

only accounts that havent posted anything on youtube will get deleted.

 

makes the mose sense this way

Oh thanks god :gaygacat7:

Posted (edited)
22 minutes ago, Delirious said:

I think youtube spoecifically made it so that any person who has uploaded any video on youtube will not get deleted no matter how inactive they are.

 

only accounts that havent posted anything on youtube will get deleted.

 

makes the mose sense this way

They're starting with accounts that weren't used at all, those will be gone first come next December, but the 10 year old fan account with tons of uploads that wasn't used in over 2 years will be gone some time after December if they go through with it.

 

The official reason for all of this is security because of password protection, so it wouldn't make sense to differentiate between inactive accounts with content and those without content, they're both at the same risk. But they want to give people time to prepare and do a backup.

Edited by The Next Day
Posted

it’s understandable for social media websites to do this like instagram and twitter etc., but youtube feels a bit morally wrong. that website is like a library of the 21st century. 

 

Posted
21 minutes ago, Delirious said:

I think youtube spoecifically made it so that any person who has uploaded any video on youtube will not get deleted no matter how inactive they are.

 

only accounts that havent posted anything on youtube will get deleted.

 

makes the mose sense this way

oh wait dw, thank god :rip:

Posted
44 minutes ago, The Next Day said:

They're starting with accounts that weren't used at all, those will be gone first come next December, but the 10 year old fan account with tons of uploads that wasn't used in over 2 years will be gone some time after December if they go through with it.

 

The official reason for all of this is security because of password protection, so it wouldn't make sense to differentiate between inactive accounts with content and those without content, they're both at the same risk. But they want to give people time to prepare and do a backup.

Interesting. that's crazy tho. There are some accounts with over 2b views that havent been active since like 2 years ago.

 

will youtube do something as brutal and sabotagy as this?  i dont think so.

 

but it is obvious that google will email everyone about this including their recovery email backups so the user is notified. I really hope they dont remove inactive channels because that's disastrous for youtube and its user

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It's basically the end of flash all over again. A bunch of websites from wayback machine doesn't work with the discontinuation of flash.

 

If you have/know any blog that it's interesting, I recommend to upload a copy of it on wayback machine just to be safe.

Posted

JENNA MARBLES PLEASE WAKE UP

 

 

Posted
22 minutes ago, Delirious said:

Interesting. that's crazy tho. There are some accounts with over 2b views that havent been active since like 2 years ago.

 

will youtube do something as brutal and sabotagy as this?  i dont think so.

 

but it is obvious that google will email everyone about this including their recovery email backups so the user is notified. I really hope they dont remove inactive channels because that's disastrous for youtube and its user

Depnding on whether they get backlash, they will go through with it. Unfortunately they can't just differentiate between Youtube and all the other Google services with their guidelines. Accounts will definetly be notified multiple times. And I think there is hope that a lot of channels are inactive while the accounts are used. You only need to write a mail, upload something to drive or just watch Youtube with the account and nothing will happen. It sucks for completely abandoned accounts that won't survive, but going forward the users will know they can't just abandon their accounts if they want the content to survive.

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If the video is still getting revenues, I think that's considered active right? This is probably just for those small inactive accounts.. 

Posted
Just now, Baby Judas said:

If the video is still getting revenues, I think that's considered active right? This is probably just for those small inactive accounts.. 

Oh you're right this is a huge point YouTube has to consider. So inactive channels are still safe I guess (as long as they still get money or if a label gets money from it)

Posted

Not Fifth Harmony's Discography before He Like That and Down reach 100 million views :weeps:

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Shut the **** up :biblio: Some inactive channels have such rare old performances that will become lost media

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gonna download all the shirtless fancams of my favorite kpop idols quick

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well there goes Sky Ferreira's music catalog

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