Your YouTube Playlists Don’t Belong to You

How I’m dealing with the loss of a playlist I’d been curating for 14 years

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I remember the first video I watched on YouTube. It was also the first I saved to my Favorites playlist.

“Muffins” is an absurdist ad for a bakery, whose long list of muffin flavors descended into bird, fire, and blood. I was 13 years old and…