A bit like hearing that your copilot's plan to stop the plane crash is to dive even steeper.<p>YouTube has always been a fair-weather friend, and the weather has been fair for a while. It does beg the question of how <i>long</i> it will be profitable to store these videos, and what the future of an online video archive looks like. For the past couple years I've been backing up channels I like to my NAS with yt-dlp. The ride was fun, and the utility was great, but I wouldn't take it for granted much longer. Storage is cheap right now, so I highly recommend starting your own backup if you want to keep this stuff post-YouTube too. With any luck, a user-sustained IPFS-style replacement might exist in a decade, and we can rebuild a public video archive the way it should have been.