For reference, here is the last post I made on this matter.

I have collected data based on some YouTube channels I have managed to (mostly) archive over the year. Specifically, I started archiving at the start of March 2025. Judging by this initial data I can more confidently say that either YouTube is performing some seriously shady shit, or an extremely high number of active YouTube creators have chosen to unlist an extremely high number of their videos in the past couple months.

About my data:

1. The column titled 'Uploaded' is the number of uploads as shown on the creator's homepage.
2. The column titled 'Public' is the number of uploads for each creator that are currently listed as of midnight, Fri 3 Oct 2025. This is shown via yt-dlp's count for the entire channel, and the videos visible on the channel's Videos tab.
3. While the slight difference in number may seem unsuspicious, yt-dlp gathers a count of all listed videos, whether public, private, membership only, marked as NSFW or age restricted.
4. I can safely say, given my current archive, that the significant deindexing by creator or by YouTube must have happened to each channel within the last few months. The difference between channels whose upload count matches my archive count, but is far higher than the public count, is suspicious to me.
5. Each creator's entire upload set is purely vlog-style with minimal edits, and are not in the habit of breaching the Community Guidelines.

The stats:

The action:

• I am currently contacting creators who have several hundred unlisted videos for confirmation, if they were the ones to delist them.

The conclusion so far:

• While I am suspicious of sneaky behaviour, it is also possible that every missing video was actually unlisted by the creator.

I dont know what to think, really.

The Dekaif channel has 434 videos, but YouTube is only showing 275 to clients, whether logged in or not, whether yt-dlp or official access.

This isn't the first channel I've witnessed this, and weirder stuff, on. Another example is this video - "Belt" meme - it is accessible on Grayjay, yet not on YouTube, meaning (I think) that publicly shared videos are being deindexed, and yet they are still hosted.

You used to be able to take the video code from the URL (everything after '?v=' and before '&') and get the exact video in search results. Not now. The second YouTuber, Sparky, has 35 uploads, only 9 of which are visible. And I can attest that at least one of the remaining 26 is hosted, but invisible. I don't even know how it came up using Grayjay but not YouTube or Revanced.

Basically, there's a TON of shady underhanded shit happening at YTHQ and everyone needs to jump ship to Odysee, Peertube or some platform that won't be clogged with AI. This is bad for everyone.

I'm posting it here mainly because I verified my findings with yt-dlp, and this new bs is successfully thwarting my attempts to archive.

3rd Oct edit: I am seeing massive differences in indexed videos versus archived videos. I am currently aggregating but the definitely affected videos range from 10% to 50%

Original:

I just woke up to all my lights on and my server off. It was a power cut, but... Checking the logs for Proxmox, it seems to have lost memory.. There were no logs for 10 days and when rebooting it said the system clock was off by as much (931,920 seconds = 10.7 days). What do? Anyone seen this before?

Thanks all, gonna replace the CMOS battery as suggested. Got a few in storage. 🖤

Fuck Rockstar. I changed my email accounts a few years ago but forgot to change Rockstar first. This wasn't a problem. Now, after buying GTA V on Xbox and Steam and sinking a lot of time into it over two accounts, they added some mandatory launcher on Steam that forces you to login to their Social Club. Mandatory launcher calls an account that I can't unlink, triggers mandatory 2FA to an email that doesn't exist. They refuse to help despite my willingly handing over a lot of private information - their support system is as good as fake. The end result is I have sank >£100 in buying their games and they ensure that not only do I not get to continue my account on GTA V, but I have been permanently locked out and actually impossible to play any Rockstar Social - walled game on Steam.

Partial 'correspondence' of my third attempt to get help from them. Twice they ignored the support subject.

Judging by other complaints online this exact issue has persisted and screwed over players since the creation of GTA V, so at least 12 years.

I have the same issue with Activision, and here's the kicker. They're exactly the same blueprint. Same support. Same result. Same fake-ass Western names on their signature.

I feel like Rockstar needs to be continuously pressured, injustices talked about, just in case they give.

Just don't give corps like Rockstar money.

Additional:
(from Schwaggaccino • 2y ago • Reddit)

I emailed Rockstar and started a request ticket and they want me to log in to get me to reset my 2FA which is preventing me from logging in.

THIS IS PEAK CLOWN WORLD I CAN'T BELIEVE SOMEONE ACTUALLY GOT PAID TO IMPLEMENT THIS JOKE OF A SYSTEM

Edit: For the time being it seems they have disabled all support as none of my support requests are going through, even with omitting data and using VPN multiple times.. I've had seven unsuccessful tickets and was just brainstorming how to automate the requests.

Final Edit: Thanks for your responses everyone, looks like legal is the only route. After 24h my support requests are still being auto blocked (not submitting as there's no delay before response), and I am skeptical they switched off support for that long, even if it is fake, so they just blacklisted my details I think.

For the third time since I've lived here in a moderately sized city in the UK, I've seen a black male argue with white trash. I don't know why or how they keep managing to find these "people" and end up arguing with them, and I'd be remiss if I wasn't aware that the pale ones are likely to have found him and started it. The first was a friend of my neighbour and after their heated debate he just swore "Ni****s!" (I abhor censorship but in this particular case I'll let it slide, lest this entire rant be censored). Knowing how systemic oppression of the ethnic majority is ignored or censored, and I see nobody standing up for the victim, that sent me into a fury. Well, today was the third event with the same dark-skinned dude. He had just stopped following this heavily tanned piece of trash that was spewing weird shit. ""Not like us", no, we're nothing like you!" ... "That's why we're going to Mars and you ain't!" My maggot in Christ none of us are, not even the trillionaires. What are you jacked up on.

I know there is a growing issue with even members of the public who support cruelty, practice bigotry and oppose liberty, and the density of assholes in my area may be, and have been, higher than I know. I am at a disadvantage when it comes to seeing just how broken our community is, because I'm basic white. But I want to fight this. I refuse to lay back while the very people I share oxygen with are actively damaging others' lives. How fucking dare the cruel, the unjust and the greedy exist anywhere they please.

My country's leaders have just imprisoned another liberation activist under the guise of terrorism with zero evidence. Small, frequent signs that the land I occupy is becoming more hostile to humanity, to life. Intentionally causing harm to the existence of an innocent being goes against my moral code, and it sure as fuck is more important than laws manipulated by those in power.

Justice for Palestine. Free Mangione. Fuck fascists. BIPOC and LGBTQ+ lives matter.

Why did our government ignore the slaughter in Gaza, and continue to sell arms to Israel? The answer lies in two of Britain's influential pressure groups

(Originally published on Monday 01 September 2014)

Nothing changes without public revolt. Those in charge believe they're invincible.

FUUU

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Clean repost. Original post was removed, so no link. Story for reference.

They're calling it a Glacial Glass Squid. Turns out, though, that this guy is more closely related to our version of a Crabsquid.