While I agree that's a startling number, just speaking for myself I've been downloading the highest-quality version of their files available for the last...ten years, literally. I don't have everything, and in the last year I definitely lagged behind (the Lockdown 2020 output was...immense, I'm truly in awe), but I'd be willing to bet there are a decent number of similarly-minded lurking duders with gigantic media servers doing the exact same thing. So, like, don't worry, we're all on it. Plus as other people said, Vinny and Drew have talked about their archiving methods in the past (literally unplugging entire NAS units and putting them aside so they can be spun up at a moment's notice), and Jeff ain't no fool. At least not in this way (ilu Jeff). Don't stress, somehow or other this stuff will be saved and will always be able to be accessed (though if you wanna help, please absolutely download your favorites yourself).
Not to be a downer either; I'm also still reeling from the news, just completely rocked and in my feelings. But Jeff said the site will continue, and New Blood has brought us Austin, Jason, Dan, Abby, Jan, technically Ben wasn't Staff back when he was first an intern so I'll count him as New Blood...and Patrick was the OG New Guy. I know not everyone's a fan of every new person, but some of the new people have become my absolute favorite people online, and I'm grateful for that. So I'll hold hope in my heart that I'll get to know some new favorites.
...But I'm still archiving all the old videos, because The Man can't take my memories from me!
I dont know what's realistic here. I read on Reddit there is something like 31 TB of GB videos. No way Jeff or even the community could host that out of passion. Even if Jeff was given the go ahead to post those on YouTube, they would be banned for content. And then who would even do the effort of posting them there? It's a mess.
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