Seems that the big purge of Google accounts has hit YouTube despite announcements that they would be exempt. This appears to be a temporary reprieve. So in future many rare uploads could well be deleted without warnings. The issue is worrying because as in the case of ‘missing’ or ‘lost’ episodes’ folks will digitise old tapes, then upload then to YT, only to maybe pass away, then have their account deleted for inactivity, taking their uploads with them. This would not be the first time that websites, accounts, and uploads have been purged from the web.