Mercifully, Google soon clarified that “we do not have plans to delete accounts with YouTube videos at this time”. There was a very real fear that these remnants of a forgotten analogue era could disappear. Bootleg albums long out of circulation, surviving today as a living, breathing entity only on the seventh page of a YouTube search, buried under mountains of unrelated garbage. Conspiracy theory videos of the 1990s-2000s. In the age of 8K, that stuff is barely 80. Films, TV shows, iconic advertisements-all in a trembling, comically retro video resolution. Live videos of famous and un-famous music concerts shot on handheld videotape-cameras from the past many decades. YouTube exists today as a digital library housing what may as well be called vintage art. This announcement led to fevered speculation that YouTube, part of the Google family, could be hit too. It could all be junked because of a policy change. Photos, YouTube, address book, travel map, this site, that app-all of it. Now, Google isn’t only your email account where you ping-pong “gentle reminders” back and forth till one person drops dead of inertia. Also read: Adipurush review: A mess of epic proportions For reasons only tech nerds and multi-billionaires can understand. If you haven’t had any activity on your account for a while, it will be killed, starting December this year. Last month, Google announced that it would wipe out all accounts that have been inactive for two years. There’s no accountability, no culpability very often, there’s no record of their existence even. Things keep vanishing from the internet, after which they are forgotten forever. It may well be time to hit the big red panic button.
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