what ever happened to Ben the Over Literal Dermestid Beetle?

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did he pick all of his bones? why were his videos removed? why was his theme song stuck in my head 2 days ago for no apparent reason?

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Yeah, someone went through and did a cleanout of the old, old videos a few years ago.

:sob:

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Is this one? Found on Meh’s utoob channel

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sadly no, it was an animated video, that apparently IRK was a re-hash/continuation of

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any word on if anyone had made a backup? no sign of them in the internet archive so far

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Alas, no.

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good GIF

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I did some digging over in “the shadowlands” (meh.com) and they got nothing either…

even talked briefly with the original creator of many Woot.com! videos including Ben, the woot podcast, and various other woot things.

Sadly he claims to not have originals/copies of those videos anymore.
here’s his wobsite if anyone else is interested in his other work: https://www.toadyco.com/

and the forum question over on the dark web: Meh: what ever happened to Ben the Over Literal Dermestid Beetle?

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I thought he was still in jail for unlicensed taxidermy…

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@ThunderThighs Is this it? Do I get some kind of coupon? BOC? :w_boc: Grovel grovel.

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Anyway, @hoffmanbike - this may bring renewed joy. Patience please, it takes about 1 minute to retrieve and load the archived site. But the following is a playable link.

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This is Bug Girl’s real entomology website.

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Her other articles:

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i had found that site and it hadn’t been playable for me, but the archive of that site did backup the video?

amazing!

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Yes. I had to search back to an archival copy. Found on a page that was saved from parsing in 2011.
Some of the later dated ones did not save the video.

I also looked for the author of the Blog in case you were curious about her impressive store of other media and educational write ups.

You can call me relentless
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I had tried that as well, I guess I just hadn’t waited long enough for the video to actually load.

thank you for having more patience!

too bad other videos didn’t get backed up as well.

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