As I type this on Wednesday morning UK time, a little piece of fandom history is no more. TheSlutfox's Rainbow Dash PMV, set to a speeded-up version of The Offspring's "You're Gonna Go Far Kid" and released in April 2011, was one of the first to make a really major impact. It's certainly not to everyone's tastes, but with over 25 million views in five and a half years, there's no denying its significance.
You'd have been forgiven for thinking that a video that had survived for that long, with that level of exposure, would be safe. But no: for whatever reason, it has, like nearly all other YouTube uploads of the video, been zapped by UMG. Now, when I go there, all I see is the screen above. I know a bit of searching will find it on other sites – but it's not the same. I'm genuinely sad about this.
That really is a shame. I don't remember if I ever saw the video, and if I did it clearly didn't grab me as a favourite. But nonetheless that seems a real shame, and after that many views I can't see that whoever reported it can't have only just found out about the video. So why now? But then the Youtube copyright system has been causing no end of grief for months now.
ReplyDeleteGrab the 10hr version while it lasts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2aLP7V-RHs
Delete....! I wonder how anyone ever has the time to upload a 10hr video, let alone watch it. :o
DeleteFound a copy I could, erm download. I should 'backup' the rest of mu list I guess, just to be safe. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL58F547509E03711D I'm probaly mising a ton of good videos from my list...(Some good pony videos were made with Windows Movie Maker back in the day)
ReplyDeleteThere are plenty still up once you get away from YouTube, and I'm glad about that... but none are the original upload made by TheSlutfox -- and it's that one, and no other, which has the specific history.
DeleteIts back! :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVCFV7jT9ho
DeleteSo it is! :D
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