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I have never written a blog post here before, but I thought I might try now since I have a heavy heart after researching into a special interest of mine.
To explain, I'm a huge My Babysitter's A Vampire Fangirlboy. It's a wonderful TV show that focuses on the super natural that had a movie and TV series from 2010-2012. Since its from the 2010's most of the stuff about it is online on long forgotten webpages. I currently use apart of my Neocities website to try and preserve and have an updating website for mbav and I very fun pass time has been collecting Behind The Scenes Images.
At the time of writing this I'm at over 200 images collected, today I went though the FreshTV's blog (fresh is the producer of mbav and its blog was like an offical hub of info for the show) and it hurt how broken the links were. The entire blog has been ripped off the web and can only be found tough what little archived links are hosted.
Not all blog posts are the most important things ever, some just airdates for episodes and fun little updates on the show but. It also included things like interviews I'll never get to read, Behind the Scene photos that were never preserved and youtube imbeds to private videos.
Writing this hurts my heart. Every time I go though and search though archives I get reminded on how much of the web will be lost to time.
I can't bare to use instagram anymore (for a number of reasons) but the fact it promotes taking down and hiding your posts so much hurt me. Saving edits of my favorite characters for hours, only for them to get taken down because Oh now the creator is ashamed of them, or it doesnt match their aesthetic or. or. ugh. It just hurts me.
On one hand I think people have the right to be forgotten, If you no longer want this thing to be available to the public who am I to stop you? But it breaks my heart seeing works of art taken down out of pure aesthetic. You'll never know what one little thing you made might mean to someone years in the future.
I say this out of experience. A part of my archiving journey is collecting my babysitter's a vampire amvs. Right now I currently have a playlist of 150, thankfully I've been able to download all of those videos but each time id see that number go down my heart would shatter. The fact I have to search, that I'll never be able to really know since youtube doesnt even tell you the TITLE of the video that is now gone.
I've enjoyed those sets of amvs over and over, whether it be because of its lighting fast editing, heart felt story telling, cheesy rainbow filters or just So Bad Its Good, they mean so much to me. Anyone whos finished MBAV knows, the show ended too soon, so these amvs... they extend the life of the show for me. Theyre a joy, and I know how many I'll never see because of youtube's copyright system, or someone taking them down themselves.
Thats about all the thoughts I have for now. But I will say, for every not archived page, for every broken image, theirs a safely preserved html, a behind the scenes picture, a forgotten interview that's so happy to be found. I'm very thankful for archivists and archive.org respectively.
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Alveus Nosville
Flash is gone. Flash was never really archivable. So many sites relied on Flash back in the day.
There was never much hope.
I mean. this is about so much more then just flash. I still think Adobe should have worked on a way to preserve it instead of just cutting the plug.
by Anakin; ; Report
Here's wisdom I've been sharing for years now:
Fuck Adobe.
There's Flashpoint, there's ruffle
and if you go to my profile there's a link to download the original standalone player.
by Alveus Nosville; ; Report
Hermon
Incredibly trueeee.. I feel like there's an awkward and unfortunate position 2010's sites have with not being old enough to be nostalgic to archive yet being recent enough that people lost interest in having websites like that by the time it was made. It's really tragic.