Subpanel0043
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This isn't entirely what happened. Nicovideo actually suffered a ransomware attack from russian hackers back in 2024 and that shut down the site for a few months, exacerbated by Japan's lack of security knowledge. This resulted in many videos being lost. Additionally, due to foreign pressures from card processors, Japan decided to hide many videos if you are based overseas. You'll find that many videos are simply hidden if they contain sensitive content and you do not have a VPN with an exit node in Japan
Man
I wanted to travel back for a while and instead had to find out that nicovideo somewhat recently purged an absolute metric fuck ton of ancient MMD relics systematically. No backups, no archiving, nothing.
I am depressed.