Why it is okay to archive Unus Annus.

Unus Annus has just been deleted and there are a lot of people just coming here and blindly commenting without understanding where I am coming from. Please watch at least half the video to get an idea of what this is about. It's okay to disagree, but don't do so blindly.

Honestly, they just don’t want it reuploaded, it’s fine to archive it for yourself.

Unus annus is like livestreaming. Livestreams just arent the same when they are watched after the event happened. Watching this after is like watching a defunct tv show, you get to watch the videos but not the experience of it as a living entity. The community adds another thing that died when this died.

Personally, I’m someone who has separation anxiety and of course, seeing Unus Annus reach its death scared me. I managed to save all of the videos before they deleted their channel, but I decided not to upload it publicly to respect their wishes as well. The only reason why I saved these videos in the first place is because I use it as a form of therapy to calm myself down from depressive episodes. I do agree with Mark and Ethan’s wishes to keep these videos as a memory within the people who had the time to watch their videos while the channel was still up but at the same time, I do understand that some people cannot let go of these certain memories or that there are people who have memory problems who want to recall these videos as a way to relive these memories as well.

It’s kind of like how when someone close to you dies, you can’t have any new experiences with them, but you may look back at videos and pictures of them. If Unus Annus were to just stop uploading, it would be like that. There’s no new experience, but you still look back at the old ones.

i have serious memory loss, and i was there for the whole thing— but i seriously cannot remember it at all. i cant remember what made me laugh or even how i felt, but i knew i loved it. thats why i keep so many pictures of loved ones and videos to remember them and see their story again because i cant hold onto it myself, and since i cant honor things that have passed myself i need others to do it for me. thank you for this, you truly don’t understand just how much this means to people like me. the whole point of the channel was “to remember” but i cant, but now i can :-)

We lost the recipe for Greek Fire. Also a trading partner for Phoenicia called Punt; the location of Punt is completely unknown, because Punt was a huge trading partner... Absolutely every firsthand source we have left that mentions Punt assumes that the reader would know who Punt is, and WHERE Punt is. But Punt was completely destroyed, and now we have no idea where it was.

Everyone talking about whether archiving Unus Annus is good or not Nobody talking about how a random person with 5k subscribers decided to go out of their way to archive over a 100k videos just for people to be able to see them again

To be honest, I think the whole argument has just spiralled wildly out of control. I can’t say I fully understand your archival tendencies, but I see where you’re coming from! I think that at the end of the day the simple fact it will be deleted caused this entire trouble. There is so much new stuff every single day to look through and enjoy, but I understand why people would want to keep it in some cases. Personally, I’ll just be making the decision to let it go when it is time, but if an archived video or anything on it shows up, I won’t ignore it. I may watch it as if it were a memory, but I couldn’t just go back to something that I’ve “lost”, because it’s a safe exercise (in most cases) in teaching people to say goodbye. And I think, really, that’s probably not too bad of a way to go about Unus Annus.

They probably expect people to archive their videos anyway and there's nothing they can do about it. If you want to respect their wishes you don't have to watch their videos after it's deleted but if some people want to archive the videos it's fine. I found this channel very late, only about 3-4 weeks from the end so I don't feel bad about watching them after the channel is deleted because I saw one of their videos it was funny and I want to have the opportunity to be able to watch all of them.

I'm aware that they don't want it to be archived, but that would also defeat the purpose of history.

The idea is not to forget it. It’s to remmeber the good times, and accept that you were there to watch it.

I just want to say how some comments are talking about how archiving the channel "defeats the purpose" of it. It doesn't. I discovered the channel about 5 hours before it was deleted, and I am planning to set a time for one year, during which I can watch the videos. After that, I'll stop. For people like me who "got in late", it doesn't really defeat the purpose of it. It's exactly what they wanted. Why would they deprive people of future generations (and other people like me) of the experience they created? I'm doing exactly what they wanted me to. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

This video doesn’t deserve all the hate that is has, this guy has a point, and he deserves respect for expressing his perspective on this matter. Knowledge and experience should be treasured, archived, and shared, regardless of any exterior correlations, for without such, this would would fall apart at the seams and accomplish nothing…

Dude... I thank you for archiving this. I feel like without being able to go back to it... To have that as an option, to just look back, feel the memories, the good times, knowing these will stay, but no more will be made... It makes me happy. Just thinking about it all going away makes my really, really sad.

I remember learning at a very young age "everything on the internet stays forever" so maybe they should realize it's not going to be possible to completely scrub this away.

Yeah i have trouble with memory so having them always there would be great. But I understand if they want it deleted

Mark has just unintentionally split the Internet on to camps where one denies and hates reuploads and the other which archives all the stuff and/or are ok with it

I fear for the future if it's apparently this easy to make people anti preservation

I think Unus Annus's purpose is better served by the Comments. The art survives, the comments inevitably die.