Major wave of NICOM@S Classics removed

[Okayu]

Over the past few days many classic NICOM@S (iM@S videos made and posted by the nico nico douga community) were removed from nico nico.

It seems that some iM@S haters on 5ch (formally 2ch) flagged them all and got them removed.

https://i.imgur.com/i4R2FZE.jpg

Here's a list of some of the videos removed, the original images coming from twitter. One of the ones hit was the famous Tonari ni... video with over 1 million views that made many people become AzusaP after seeing it.

[mariokirby]

That's terrible.  There was so much im@s history in those videos.

I'm not too knowledgeable about the site's policy, but since it was just troll and not a company, wouldn't it be easy just to have someone reupload it?  (assuming they had a rip to begin with).  Or, maybe it's not that simple?