Spent 3 hours trying to find a deleted celeb interview archive only to learn it was scrubbed from the Wayback Machine too

I was looking for that old 2017 interview where a big YouTuber admitted to faking a charity livestream. Thought I'd find it on the Wayback Machine like usual. Nope, some brand sent a legal notice and had the whole page and all its snapshots removed. That took me way too long to figure out after clicking through like 15 dead links. Anyone else run into celeb content that's been completely nuked from the internet?

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max4156d ago

Any idea who sent the legal notice? Would be interesting to know if it was the celeb themselves or someone else trying to bury that history. Seems like once those legal letters go out, the content just vanishes forever without a trace.

the_hayden6d ago

Not really, @max415, I think that stuff disappears because nobody wants to deal with lawyers over old gossip.

kimr106d ago

Honestly this exact thing changed my mind about the internet being forever. I used to think once something was uploaded it was basically immortal but then I found out a whole blog archive from 2014 detailing a celeb's legal battle with a former assistant got wiped clean. @max415 you're right to wonder who sent the letter because I tracked it back to a PR firm the celeb hired that same year. Ngl it's scary how easy it is to erase entire digital histories with one legal threat.