Post by THIS PROJECT IS RETIRED on Nov 27, 2020 20:26:24 GMT
Okay, so here's a story...
KawaiiPiranha (now called Panoots) used to have a bunch more of his hilarious old animations on his YT channel/Newgrounds, like "Friendship isn't real" and "Kid Icarus: Downfall". But at some point he removed them from his back catalog for whatever reason while keeping some of the other old videos available.
I've previously restored several lost animations of Screwits after learning that he just straight up deleted ALL his videos and didn't want them out there anymore, to the point he would comment on reuploads and request removal with this, including on my reuploads comprised of ungrounded.net Flash SWFs put through Swivel I was able to recover from Wayback Machine links of their long gone Newgrounds pages I think, or otherwise. I had also intended to do this for KawaiiPiranha's Wayback Machine Newgrounds link, but put it on the back burner for a while, only having obligation to do something in this late November with Flash's incoming death on the web browser support, even though thinking about it more, that may have not affected what was essentially just downloading swf files and THEN converting them in separate program Swivel.
But by the time I came to do this, word must have gotten out about how Screwits' old cartoons were recovered through the Wayback Machine because input of ANY KawaiiPiranha links now said the URL was excluded from the Wayback Machine, when my Newgrounds one definitely didn't prior as it was bookmarked! This lead me down two paths: finding bits and pieces of his cartoon catalog through other means (such as Coub, which weirdly keeps videos used for "GIFs with sound" on its site in full, accidentally making it a good source for removed YT videos), and using an alternative internet archive site for those old Newgrounds links.
I had found this one website that did that, it provided me with Newgrounds links of his gallery and cartoons. Some links still weren't archived, like the much-personally-quoted Kid Icarus cartoon, but I was able to nab two SWFs from it as I put the tab on the back burner. But I was in incognito mode and misplaced the link leading me to lose the site I was using! IDK how I found it, might have been suggested under alternate archiving sites to find the old removed Rooster Teeth site under. It was kinda like the Archive Today site that goes by archive.is or archive.to or other. Its URL was something like "****(.?)internet(.?)archive", its logo was big letters with a scroll or something to the side/under it and its name had something like "library of (certain American location)" on it, like Washington or Congress or something (but the Library of Congress website doesn't seem to provide the same results???).
It's also worth noting that the SWF files I recovered come from Newgrounds' ungrounded.net site to which they are still present on despite being long eulogy'd on the website itself (I'm pretty sure that it's not webarchive's capturing of it instead of the site link itself). The whole ordeal of getting the archived Newgrounds pages is essentially just so I can find its "view page source/inspect" ungrounded link of the animation SWF, nothing more. So I have to ask if there's some other way of finding these specific ungrounded links for KawaiiPiranha cartoons, be that through searching the site for its SWF pages it has (if that's even a thing you can do? I remember people finding a hidden page within the LEGO website for Bionicle 2015 before that was revealed...) or finding another source that led to these links (or just copies anyone has of the cartoons themselves, I guess).
That or merely a list of known alternative internet archive sites that actually work the same as Wayback Machine and don't have a paywall out front. I have found some of KawaiiPiranha's old videos, but not the Kid Icarus meme one I want a lot, and they can be either mere clips of the cartoons or someone's foreign dub of it. Don't let his history go to waste!
KawaiiPiranha (now called Panoots) used to have a bunch more of his hilarious old animations on his YT channel/Newgrounds, like "Friendship isn't real" and "Kid Icarus: Downfall". But at some point he removed them from his back catalog for whatever reason while keeping some of the other old videos available.
I've previously restored several lost animations of Screwits after learning that he just straight up deleted ALL his videos and didn't want them out there anymore, to the point he would comment on reuploads and request removal with this, including on my reuploads comprised of ungrounded.net Flash SWFs put through Swivel I was able to recover from Wayback Machine links of their long gone Newgrounds pages I think, or otherwise. I had also intended to do this for KawaiiPiranha's Wayback Machine Newgrounds link, but put it on the back burner for a while, only having obligation to do something in this late November with Flash's incoming death on the web browser support, even though thinking about it more, that may have not affected what was essentially just downloading swf files and THEN converting them in separate program Swivel.
But by the time I came to do this, word must have gotten out about how Screwits' old cartoons were recovered through the Wayback Machine because input of ANY KawaiiPiranha links now said the URL was excluded from the Wayback Machine, when my Newgrounds one definitely didn't prior as it was bookmarked! This lead me down two paths: finding bits and pieces of his cartoon catalog through other means (such as Coub, which weirdly keeps videos used for "GIFs with sound" on its site in full, accidentally making it a good source for removed YT videos), and using an alternative internet archive site for those old Newgrounds links.
I had found this one website that did that, it provided me with Newgrounds links of his gallery and cartoons. Some links still weren't archived, like the much-personally-quoted Kid Icarus cartoon, but I was able to nab two SWFs from it as I put the tab on the back burner. But I was in incognito mode and misplaced the link leading me to lose the site I was using! IDK how I found it, might have been suggested under alternate archiving sites to find the old removed Rooster Teeth site under. It was kinda like the Archive Today site that goes by archive.is or archive.to or other. Its URL was something like "****(.?)internet(.?)archive", its logo was big letters with a scroll or something to the side/under it and its name had something like "library of (certain American location)" on it, like Washington or Congress or something (but the Library of Congress website doesn't seem to provide the same results???).
It's also worth noting that the SWF files I recovered come from Newgrounds' ungrounded.net site to which they are still present on despite being long eulogy'd on the website itself (I'm pretty sure that it's not webarchive's capturing of it instead of the site link itself). The whole ordeal of getting the archived Newgrounds pages is essentially just so I can find its "view page source/inspect" ungrounded link of the animation SWF, nothing more. So I have to ask if there's some other way of finding these specific ungrounded links for KawaiiPiranha cartoons, be that through searching the site for its SWF pages it has (if that's even a thing you can do? I remember people finding a hidden page within the LEGO website for Bionicle 2015 before that was revealed...) or finding another source that led to these links (or just copies anyone has of the cartoons themselves, I guess).
That or merely a list of known alternative internet archive sites that actually work the same as Wayback Machine and don't have a paywall out front. I have found some of KawaiiPiranha's old videos, but not the Kid Icarus meme one I want a lot, and they can be either mere clips of the cartoons or someone's foreign dub of it. Don't let his history go to waste!
