# What happened to my list of Favorite videos on Youtube?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 10, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-list-of-favorite-videos-on-youtube/692772 "2014-07-10T15:57:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-list-of-favorite-videos-on-youtube/692772/1 "2014-07-10T15:57:20Z")

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I didn’t get an email (that I recall) telling me about this, but just now I found that all of my Favorite videos, the ones I’ve been flagging and saving to that list for 8 years, are gone.

In fact, all of my playlists are gone.

Did anyone else have this happen? Does anyone know why? Is there a way to get my old Favorites list back?

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-my-list-of-favorite-videos-on-youtube/692772/2 "2014-07-10T16:01:14Z")

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Okay, I figured it out, with help from (ironically) a quick google and some reading of other forums.

Anyone else with the same problem, go to [https://www.youtube.com/channel\_switcher](https://www.youtube.com/channel_switcher) and switch back to your main channel.

Apparently, Google, in trying to make things “better”, um, didn’t.

Hey Google! Please stop fucking with shit that works and that we all like!