I'm just gonna say it again. Anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who is putting the work into digitizing videotapes and is only uploading to YouTube, to SERIOUSLY reconsider it and dual upload to the Internet Archive as well.

YouTube is probably *the* single worst way to "preserve" something online. At any time without warning a video can disappear.

I've got what, 7 thousand videos up on Archive? I've had one, ONE, taken down. It was a Callanetics video (Turns out Callan Pinckney still sells DVDs). And I'll gladly cop that over the PAGES of stuff that was copyright claimed on YT.

I'm sick of seeing people on YouTube have to edit stuff to get it on YouTube. What is this preserving? And I keep begging, BEGGING, these people to upload to an alternative source.

Someone had to edit a 50 minute video to eight minutes to make it "YT safe". What's the point?

Actually you know what? I said dual upload? Just fucking stop uploading to YouTube. YouTube isn't for old TV content. Full stop.

Jeez Louise a tweet I thought was so incredibly niche now at 200+ favs.

I expected no traction on this.