Lost YouTube Channels You Remember Watching

It seems anything leading up to him quitting the Internet is also lost. He just upped and disappeared without a trace!

Yes I’ve heard about his failed comebacks too! Something else I’ve read that’s wild is that even before he did the cartoon content his channel focused on the Jak and Daxter games and got a decent following before he all of a sudden deleted all his videos and made fun of all the Jak and Daxter fans that supported him. Notice a pattern? Dude seriously has some issues. Maybe he finally realized YouTube just isn’t for him.

This one is going to be obscure, so much so that I don't even remember the channel name. Back in 2006, I used YouTube to look up game clips and videos from TV shows I liked. One show was The Andy Milonakis Show. Being a new platform, there was more homemade skits/homages/reactions than actual show clips (also different copyright policies at play). Anyways, there was a channel that had some kids having a mock "interview with Andy Milonakis" with a kid playing the part of Andy (with a pillow under his shirt to be fat) and his sister player the interviewer.

This seems like an innocuous and uninteresting video, but it stuck with me for a few reasons. One is being a remnant of super early YouTube, this being the second year of operation, but also unfortunately harkens back to the "wild west" era of the internet as well. I just remember this was the most vile, hate-filled comment section for a couple of teenagers making a fun video. Though this really wasn't uncommon for comment sections of the time. 18 years later, I hope they're doing alright in life.

Not that it would help in tracking down a channel that's likely long been purged, but one of their other videos was called "Slide of Doom," or something like that.

There was a bumper uploading channel I remember back in the day named ABigD. The only reason I remember him is because he would put an ugly Sony Vegas impact font watermark on the corner of his uploads, despite them just being commerical rips of Discovery Kids or whatnot (aka, not his content). Some of his uploads have been saved, but because he was seemingly one of the few bumper dudes who knew how to crack his DVR's encryption to gain HD footage, and he was one of the few people that actually recorded/cared about some of the things he uploaded (do that many people really remember/give a shit about that time Pinky and the Brain aired on Jetix?), the only recordings of these things are permanently tainted with his dumbass watermark. No reason I can recall for why he deleted everything, and his dumbass username makes it hard to search for stuff related to him.