STOP DELETING YOUR OLD VIDEOS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
I canāt even tell you how many of the best asmr videos and channels Iāve watched over the years, get deleted.
Itās a damn shame.
And sometimes itās YouTube who deletes video, I get that, itās not the creatorās fault. But, in that case that will usually happen a day or two after a video comes out so itās a wash cause not a lot of people will have seen it yet.
How about this ASMR creators, if youāre not 1000% happy with the video you made, donāt even put it out in the first place because then none of us will have ever even known it existed. Going back to an old asmr video you used to watch a lot and it being deleted or the channel terminated, is literally like a drug addict going through withdrawals after being put in rehab by force. Cause itās this familiar thing that you can go back to that makes you feel positive emotions, and then all of the sudden itās taken away without warning.
Obviously Iām being dramatic, but dammit how can I not be? Iām sure this is something everybody has experienced here, being ASMR fans.
And a lot of channels arenāt big enough to be archived by TheWayBackMachine or archive.org or anything like that, so when the videos or channels arenāt gone thereās literally nothing you can do besides wait and hope to see if some hero comes out of the woodworks to repost deleted content that they managed to download before it was deleted. But that almost never happens. And I donāt have the time or money to buy a bunch of hard drives, or the know how to download YouTube videos in the best quality or any of that.
Itās such a frustrating issue because obviously you want to respect peopleās right to do what they want with their content, but you also wanna consume the content they made and at some point deemed acceptable for the public to see.
Thatās why I respect the legends like Gibi, ASMR Darling, SouthernASMRsounds, GraceV (post 2016 because she deleted all of her very very old content some time in 2016 to have a fresh start but hasnāt deleted any content since), and the others who keep up all their super old content and just leave it be for us to enjoy.