BooHoo YouTube, Marie Antoinette
Is anyone else a little depressed about this whole YouTube situation? Now that it's been bought up, videos are getting yanked by the THOUSANDS. Sure, it was fun to waste the occasional company hour watching people do stupid shit to their kittens, but soon that will be all that's left. No glorious archives of otherwise lost 80s videos. No clips from movies or pivotal moments from tv shows. No screaming Japanese schoolgirls. Honestly, I feel like the door to a great big beautiful playground has been slammed shut. Ok, maybe this is all overly melodramatic—after all, all the videos I linked to recently are still functioning. But every time I get a This video is no longer available my heart breaks a little. Bastards.
At least the Marie Antoinette trailer is still up. This trailer was a thing of brilliance. When it came out it was surprising and exciting and full of promise—really fucking amazing, a breath of fresh air. I saw the movie on Saturday (the theater was serving pink "Let them eat cake" cake, do you believe that shit?)... and I actually kinda wish I hadn't. The trailer—this trailer specifically—is better than the film. Sigh.
2 Comments:
Did any of these old files get cached?
It seems like its hard to make things actually disappear from the internet.
The page is cached -- text is "forever", but files are not. If you remove a file, such as video, those will indeed disappear. A hole will be left in its place, so future generations will know that once it was there... etc.
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