LTT isn't first channel which this has happened. And some of the others have been quite small. And those have returned with if not all, at least seemingly most content present.
Youtube doesn't seem instantly to nuke channels and everything related in these cases. Even if it appears as terminated.
The videos are just unlisted. But even if deleted YouTube can and does restore these things in similar cases.
I've seen some videos on building a video SAN or NAS and I think they mention backups etc.
I understood that reference.
These videos appear to be just unlisted, not removed.
they have floatplane which is on separate infrastructure from ltt so that can help. there is billi billi too
They have everything, even on offsite servers, but losing the YT channel itself would be catastrophic
It was a goof about how they have a whole video series on building an enormous petabyte media server. LTT is too big for YouTube to not work with them to fix it, and maybe this will nudge them to develop Floatplane into something more than a backup.
Yes, LTT is popular enough to have contacts with YouTube who will help them recover. It's still scary to see a huge channel briefly blink out of existence, and people running less well-connected channels are probably looking at this situation with some anxiety.
The sad part is that there's going to be a few people who got their YT view spammed with the fake Tesla and they unsubscribed. Even with YT reverting the videos/ratings/etc. I'd be really surprised if they reverted the unsubscribes.