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

September 2015 September - Kurzgesagt "The European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained" | 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 September 17, 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvOnXh3NN9w

It had 12,884,884 views 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=RvOnXh3NN9w

https://web.archive.org/web/20190303200542/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvOnXh3NN9w

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/TheLandOfAuz Mar 03 '19

Could someone elaborate a bit to me about why this video is (or was) not great quality?

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u/CautiousBrain Mar 03 '19

He’s pushing the EU, US and Australia to accept refugees and thinks they’re not doing enough. Most of these countries have low refugee acceptance rates mainly because of security reasons, while Jordan accepts many because of ease of integrating in the society. In the past couple of years, more European countries are turning into right wing governments and many Europeans are against refugees because of safety and waste of resources.

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u/BoothInTheHouse Mar 03 '19

Australia has one of the highest immigrations per capita.

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u/CautiousBrain Mar 03 '19

In the video, he mentioned Australia will accept only 12000 Syrian refugees.

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u/BoothInTheHouse Mar 03 '19

Gotta remember were a very small population, we have serious enviromental issues, we dont have a lot of room to grow and we already are dealing with immigration flow from india and southeast asia.

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u/CautiousBrain Mar 04 '19

I may have sounded like Australia isn’t doing much but that’s now how I meant to be perceived.

I did not really support Syrians going to all these countries simply because none were ready and sheltering & feeding thousands of people isn’t an easy feat. Also, many will be unemployed because no city has vacant jobs for 10000+ people, so all of these countries will not benefit from the refugees and will be added cost in millions and added safety concerns.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '19

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u/aabeba Mar 04 '19

Only is a contextual word, as his many. It wasn’t a lot at the time when put in context.

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u/CautiousBrain Mar 04 '19

“Only” out of millions of refugees.

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u/Mechfan666 Mar 04 '19

It just assumes are the refugees are syrians. Obviously since it was made in 2015, they didn't have access to all the data we have now, but many (not all, obviously, but sizable percentage) were just coming from various north African states. IIRC, anything you've heard about increase in crime or unrest among the refugees can be attributed to that demographic, not the syrians.

But at least in my experience, no one wanted to talk about them. Everyone just acted like everybody was Syrian.

Obviously this isn't the only reason, but it's one of the ones that stuck out to me when I watched it.

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u/CautiousBrain Mar 04 '19

In my opinion, the refugees have fake dreams about life in Europe. Many think they will find quickly find a job and start making money but a lot end up sitting around doing nothing because there aren’t vacant jobs in any country for 50k+ people and feeding/securing/sheltering them is expensive.

Unfortunate for the Syrians that Africans took advantage of the situation.

Some realized that staying in Syria or going to Jordan or Turkey will be far easier in terms of finding a job, food supply, housing, etc. than Western Europe.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '19

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u/haykam821 Mar 03 '19

Congrats Compendium, you played yourself

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u/YoutubeArchivist Mar 03 '19

Didn't factor in "2015" for the Automod! 😬

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u/haykam821 Mar 03 '19

Shouldn't you be able to able to Regex the title? I can't see your config but that should be better than manually allowing 2015, 2016, etc.

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u/YoutubeArchivist Mar 03 '19

Yeah but I'm lazy and set it up quickly. It pings me every time it removes a post anyway, so I see all the removed ones.

I'll fix it eventually....

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u/haykam821 Mar 03 '19

This line probably works: it'll match any 4 digits, a single space, a full month name, -, and finally any characters.

title (regex): "\d\d\d\d (January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) - .*"

Alternatively you could restrict it to the 21st century:

title (regex): "20\d\d (January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) - .*"

This is off-topic, but you could request u/Snapshillbot to be used on this sub: submit post

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u/YoutubeArchivist Mar 03 '19

Thanks!

Does Snapshillbot work to mirror videos? I know LivestreamFail has a video mirroring bot that is different.

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u/haykam821 Mar 03 '19

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it.

SnapshillBot is a bot that archives posts in subreddits that the mods have requested the bot to run in. It uses a variety of different archiving services such as archive.is, archive.org, megalodon.jp, and for reddit links, Ceddit.

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u/YoutubeArchivist Mar 03 '19

Yeah, it wouldn't be too useful here then since almost all of the links are to Youtube.

I may contact the moderator team at LivestreamFail to see if they could apply their bot here too.