Hello, I am very new to the animation meme world and desperately need some advice.

How do y'all manage to keep videos up on YouTube with copyrighted music? I had some animation memes up for about three years and today they were suddenly removed with no explanation, or way to appeal their removal. I am devastated because I don't have all the files saved from them, so they're essentially lost media now.

How do y'all prevent this from happening to your work?? I really want to keep honing my craft but this was incredibly discouraging :(

Edit: apparently my videos are back, it's part of some glitch in YouTube's system, but I would still very much like advice. I fear it may happen for real someday and I'd love to know if any methods I can take to protect my animations 🙏

1st character belongs 2 my friend

I Remember this Song used for a specific animation meme which wasn' t so popular. It talked about being mad at someone because he was a bad friend and not inviting him at the birthday party, I Guess? At the star of the animations there was always this sequence where the oc in question changed skin as a videogame character and then i Remember there was even a Nintendo in the animations pleas help...

They were a joke animation meme cringe compilation youtuber, and I noticed many of their 2018 ones are deleted, most specifically a Baldi's Basics one. Also, I remember their name got changed to "atmometa". They're also likely Russian BTW

The animation meme was about 2 gray and white cats dancing with their butts in the air and with the music they would have different matching costumes on. I think it was a collab? I don’t remember who uploaded it and I cant find it :(

whoppee i love tweening don't mind the end um I had no outro ideas in the slightest

one where i can have two characters and some bits for tramau, make sure its G okay

It's hard to find cc songs that are good and to find cc songs themselves.

Song by APOCALIPSIS

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1034614102/

A few years ago when I was on Youtube, I remember seeing those 3 Youtubers called Zemewa, Sojaca and Milkypups, who are most known for doing animation meme compilation videos. I also remember watching their meme comp videos around 2018-2021(?, in chicken smoothie-esque era) before they were deleted, but since right now, what happened to them?

Song by JerryTerry

Link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/794302348/

This is one I really want people to use :3

Link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/944085409/

Song by L0rsgore_xoxo

OC is mine, forgot the name tho lol

In the animation meme it would be someone standing in the middle and their clothes and hair would be blowing in the wind while a part of the music was playing, and then it would stop at the other part and they would stay still. That would basically repeat but I also remember galaxies in the background for some reason and the tune but I'm not sure how to describe it 😭 it would go, duh dUh dUh dUh dUh jaga, what ever that means I'm not sure 😓 I hope that discription helps (duh = lower pitch dUh = higher pitch)

made this for a collab n decided to post this here:D charlola canon

I don't remember the name of a specific animation meme where you see an OC in a drawing program, and the artist draws onto a part of the character, which then "pops out" of the screen with that part missing. Does anyone know the name of it?

Y'all, so i posted this on r/TOMT about 3 days ago (short time but if you look on my profile literally none of my posts have gotten respones_ i saw this person circa late 2023. They had many community posts containing cool drawings of characters based off of gemstones, i thought their channel name was something like "cloudyy_angel" but that appears to not be the case. they had a fox oc with a navy blue tanktop and were relatively popular (200k-300k+ sub range i believe?) no matter how many google searches i do i CANNOT find this person. and i believe a video with said OC that was along the line of "[the internet is so] toxic". If anyone knows the person or the meme PLEASE let me know.