It only takes a couple of times to realize how quickly something you care about can be taken away and you'll never see/hear it again. Netflix brought on such convenience. I remember I watched Scrubs front to back multiple times, until one day I was told that it was leaving and suddenly I couldn't watch it anymore.

Youtubers and creators come and go, if there is something you care about it's on you to preserve it. No one else will.

I wish there was a legal way for me to create a "backup" version for others to watch like a PeerTube instance, but to creators they would see it as not fair to them, so unfortunately my collection remains private.

In particular, if it is a niche where you are a specialist, so you can judge the importance, and you know the general public does not know much about it. Those are most likely to become lost forever if your saved link fails you one day.

It's silly how "the internet remembers" saying gets repeated. That was true pre-2010 roughly. These days it's evidently not that difficult for someone to be disappeared or disappear themselves from the internet.

Unless you're high profile enough or you've really angered a crowd. Nobody is going to be archiving you. Certainly nobody is dedicated enough to ensure that your content is perpetually hosted somewhere.

There are some Youtubers from the 2010 era who I used to watch. It's as if they never existed. They made their ad money and vanished.

This sounds interesting.\ Is it a paid platform or how it works?