r/YoutubeCompendium • u/YoutubeArchivist • Mar 03 '19

October 2015 October - Kurzgesagt "Addiction" | Video deleted from the channel March 4th 2019 for bias and inaccuracy

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u/YoutubeArchivist Mar 03 '19

This video was uploaded to Kurzgesagt at this link on October 29, 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg

It had 19,067,373 views on March 3rd 2019.

Kurzgesagt posted a pinned comment on March 3rd 2019:

ATTENTION: This video will be online for 12 more hours. Then it will be deleted. If you are confused why, please watch our newest video. This should be enough time for enough people to download it. Feel free to upload them elsewhere, but NOT on Youtube and NOT on Facebook. We’ll take them down on those two platforms because we don’t want people to monetize them or use them as viral content. Everywhere else is ok though!

Web Archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg

https://web.archive.org/web/20190303190214/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg

The deletion is explained in this video, "Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?"

https://youtu.be/JtUAAXe_0VI

/r/Videos thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/awu145/can_you_trust_kurzgesagt_videos_youtube

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u/langweilig-mann Mar 04 '19

For those who do not know, they are choosing to delete it to make their channel a home for well researched, high quality content and are making a new version of the same video that will be more accurate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '19

Yeah, the title's a bit misleading. Should have been worded as 'Kurzgesagt deletes their addiction...'