[mid-kid]

My only complaint about this is that so much of the old stuff has been removed, privated, marked as age restricted, blurred due to refusal to be marked as "for kids"[1] and removing the comment section, or otherwise made inaccessible by their authors. The reason usually being that it's embarassing or otherwise doesn't reflect the uploader's modern persona. A lot of awesome content is missing from the results due to that, and that thought alone makes me sad when I use this feature...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viTkj0eu-fk

[wildrhythms]

People should be allowed to remove their persona from the internet.

[mid-kid]

Yes, but that doesn't make it less of a shame when people remove content thousands of people enjoy.

Information that goes on the internet never truly goes away, be it through personal archive sites or more general ones like archive.org (which archives youtube.com directly), it just becomes harder to find unless specifically sought for.

The knowledge that I'm most certainly missing something when doing dated searches, and I'm viewing results filtered by people's current-day hindsight, instead of the unfiltered essence of the youtube of yesteryear makes me sad. We lost a lot of authenticity in the pursuit of flawless public images.

[Tarq0n]

The way YouTube doesn't show you the metadata for removed videos anymore is infuriating. You end up with playlists where you can tell something was removed but not what.