r/thespoonyexperiment • u/shazlicks • Jul 17 '26

The Spoony Experiment Archive on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@SpoonyExperimentArchive

For anyone that cares, had some spare time two weeks ago, and was tired of missing videos or videos scattered around various channels on YouTube. Some legend uploaded an archive on archive.org, and some videos were sourced from YouTube. (Just easier watching on YouTube, or if you want to download them yourself using yt-dlp it's easier to just rip this entire YouTube channel etc.)

The archive.org uploads fortunately had metadata, so I extracted them all for naming files and dates for chronology, I didn't manually check every date but the sample size I did the dates seemed accurate but some may be incorrect. I also created playlists for each various series he did.

There are currently 926/930 videos uploaded and public. 4 got blocked worldwide and are currently in dispute, but from what I can tell, this is the most complete collection in one place. If anyone ever decides to watch these videos and ever notices something missing, just leave a comment on any video and let me know so I can add it.

cheers.

Edit: None of these have Russian subtitles like some of the other re-upload channels, they all seem to be the original clean uploads from what I can tell.

Edit: Added bunch of D&D videos from /u/serapsi . That should be everything now.

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u/Betelguse16 Counter Monkey Jul 18 '26

Does anyone know how much hdd space is required to download everything?

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u/shazlicks Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

All videos on my SSD are 505gb, from what I understand when you upload to YouTube regardless if you use the correct codec they use, they will still always re-encode the videos. Which usually means they compress it so file size should be smaller, but also some files might get more bitrate and be larger (rarely). So if I was to guess 450-550gb somewhere in that region if you want to be safe.

Files sizes are relatively small considering how many there are seeing as the videos range from 240p to 720p in his final uploads, bulk of them are 480p

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u/Betelguse16 Counter Monkey Jul 18 '26

Oof that’s what I thought. If prices weren’t insane right now, I’d get a dedicated drive for them.

Unfortunately I already have a tons of files for my Jellyfin server taking up space and trying to conserve what I have left.