Nicholas Federov

That's unfortunate. I really liked his The Computer music video. Too bad I didn't save it because of that.

I actually still have one of the Grand Channel videos (although not made by Nicholas), "spongeskate test". A few months after I uploaded it to YouTube, weirdly enough the creator of the video took it down. I still have the file on my hard drive though.

I just heard about this, and I'm... kinda heartbroken.
I think I still have his old Discord profile. I'll see if I can talk to him about reuploading his old videos again.

Federov? If yes, he says he decided to give up his online life and move to the countryside with his wife.

His channel is still up, but many of his videos are long gone.

As it turns out, Archive.org has a .tar file with Fedorov's videos.
archive.org/download/yt-UCIYa4m29OsmlFLrRhcZirUg

That just leaves the videos that aren't featured in the .tar, along with his Devinatart, SoundCloud and Twitter.

This really sucks. There's a lot of people out there try to do these randomness 90s-early 2000s software inspired videos for the sake of being creepy or something, but Nicholas' work seemed to have some sort of genuineness to them even when utter nonsense. Mostly due to the fact he actually used software and hardware from the past to make his works. Probably an old SoftImage build for all the 3d work if I had to guess. I think his stuff was converted onto VHS before being made digital, too? Much different than all the simple things people make in Blender or whatever it is they do.

It's a shame he got pissed at his stuff being devoured by kiddies. Can't help wonder what he's making to this day, if he's even doing stuff like this anymore. Somehow going into seclusion in the country almost kind of fits.

If you're out there Nicholas, hopefully we hear from you again some day. Your work really puts me in a weird mood nothing else that tries to imitate this style comes close to.