r/PokeTube

Last Sunday I found that in a week (probably only a couple of days now), Nintendo is taking down a Pokémon fan series on YouTube called PokéNational, which has National Geographic-style high-quality 3D-animated videos on the biology and ecology of various Pokémon, and the creator and owner, Elious Entertainment, has been working hard on it for 3 years. There were some posts about it made on r/pokemon (including a couple from the creator), but for some reason the mods removed them… Elious did make a video on the Elious Entertainment channel about the situation, but because the PokéNational channel is pending deletion, they couldn’t post the video there, but luckily it’s been blowing up lately thanks to the article about it on Kotaku. But it’s a shame the project has to come to an end, cause one of the latest community posts from a month ago said that the next video that was in production would’ve been about the Chandelure line, one of my favorite lines…

Sadly, all of the channel’s videos have since been deleted, though idk if anyone was able to download them before then… But the English-language episodes and test renders have been uploaded to archive.org, but the Spanish and Chinese-language ones were never archived… And the descriptions and comments on all of the videos weren’t saved either… (Also, I found a few early PokéNational videos were posted to archive.org a few years ago, but I remember the Phantump one I watched on YouTube didn’t have any narration, so maybe there was a version with the narration uploaded later? Maybe the same applies to the other early ones on there too, but I’m not sure, since I don’t remember if I watched the original videos on YouTube or not…)

And there’s also the PokéNational-related community posts on the channel that have been deleted as well (and the remaining ones will likely be deleted when the channel goes down; I’ve been saving the videos linked there to my watch later playlist), and the Patreon’s currently under review, so I don’t think any of the pages on there can be viewed…

I remember watching a few of the early videos when I found the channel a few years ago and thinking they’re cute, though I’ve mostly forgotten about the channel until I saw the news…