TIL that apparently you have a better chance of your videos being archived on your own website than from YouTube. I have seen many videos on YouTube, with tens of thousands of views, be lost to time with no archive on Archive.org, but on my own website at least one huge file and at least one video were automatically archived on Archive.org from its web crawler. Awesome!
My YouTube profile is non-existant on Archive.org, but my website has been archived a couple times on its main page, and has even more archives of my uploads, which appear on the internet (usually Reddit) much more often since I use it as a general-purpose file host to avoid having to rely on unreliable external hosting.
I love Archive.org. Although they sometimes fail to Archive my favourite YouTube videos before they are deleted, with YouTube simply being too big (and I'm guessing hard to index) for everything to be captured... at least it appears that Archive.org does a very good job for small personal websites.
Speaking of which, I should really update my website soon. It still has a really barebones homepage despite that I've been linking to it more lately, first on the RMS support campaign and now I've added it in my VRChat profile too. It only has a couple random mediocre webpages I've linked to, and I'd like to link to some of my newer things too, specifically my art, and some of my online profiles. Looking at Archive.org, the home page has been almost the same for years now.
The two files I noticed specifically where my Goatsquirrel Belleza image, which is one of the renders I am most proud of, in its full 213M, 16-bit colour, 10800x5400 size:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201111215422/https://happysmash27.me/Upload/Renders/Belleza/Belleza_RGB.png
(I must have linked the really big one at some point??)
And this simple physics simulation video: https://web.archive.org/web/20201111174750/https://happysmash27.me/Upload/Renders/CG/Destroy9.mp4
Which is actually quite a bit smaller, at only 23M, but it's still weird seeing it have more success than YouTube on Archive.org.