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It's silly how "the internet remembers" saying gets repeated. That was true pre-2010 roughly. These days it's evidently not that difficult for someone to be disappeared or disappear themselves from the internet.
Unless you're high profile enough or you've really angered a crowd. Nobody is going to be archiving you. Certainly nobody is dedicated enough to ensure that your content is perpetually hosted somewhere.
There are some Youtubers from the 2010 era who I used to watch. It's as if they never existed. They made their ad money and vanished.
Sayings like this are about threat modelling (worst-case scenarios). If you post something to the internet you need to assume that it will be preserved for eternity. If you want to preserve something on the internet, you need to assume that it will disappear.
my now deleted reddit account is archived on pullpush, just cause they scrape everything. I don't have stalkers, but i might in the future. They've just totally ignored my GDPR request and blocked me from communication lol. i've complained to my DPA but i think i either got ignored or i'm expected to wait over a year.
I wonder, could you file a DMCA takedown request since it's your own posts and comments?