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CollegeHumor had same damn well written, well produced comedic satire. I hope all of their material is archived.

One thing to watch out for is if this posted under their Geuite account to YouTube, when the gsuite bill isn’t paid, all the YouTube videos will get deleted, leaving a cultural hole.

Of all the Google crimes, this one is accidental but the most damaging to society.

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> the most damaging to society

While I agree that content archival is important, I would strongly argue that lost content is not on the same level as for example anti-competitive practices, even in terms of cultural impact.

Especially not CollegeHumor content, most of which was scattershot hope-something-goes-viral bro humor.

I disagree strongly.

Maybe some of their skits had bro humor but it always seemed like either generic humor or geek centric than anything.

What is bro humor? Just see random memes on initial google search.

Drunk photos and stuff like that. Maybe Brohemian Rhapsody? Though that was young in cheek.

"bro" means "anything I don't like, that leans male."

YouTube deletes videos attached to corporate accounts if their bills go unpaid? Have they done this in the past?

All of the Ricon talks by Basho have been lost to the sands of time for this very reason.

Given the residual income from their back catalog I doubt anyone will let that happen.

Good to know, time to archive with youtube-dl and make a torrent out of it, and/or publish them on a PeerTube instance.

For the content creator, Google's Takeout service will give you an archive of your videos, so if you know you're shutting down, you can get them before then.

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