About

The Memory Hole^[1] is a website started by Everything is Terrible! that collects rejected submissions to America's Funniest Home Videos. As of June 18, 2017 the site and it's YouTube channel have collected 143 videos with new videos uploaded every Friday.

History

The domain memoryhole.biz was registered on July 10, 2014.^[2] On July 14, 2014 the site was announced via a post by Commodore Gilgamesh on Everything is Terrible's official blog.^[3] On November 5, Vice's Troy Farah interviewed Commodore Gilgamesh regarding the site, Gilgamesh stated that they were given access to the "world's largest collection of home videos" by the people who "run the longest-running primetime television program in history"^[4] which, as of June 18, 2017, was America's Funniest Home Videos.^[5] The Memory Hole's YouTube channel was launched on February 19, 2014 and has 143 videos and over 55,000 subscribers as of June 18, 2017.^[6]

Features

The layout of the Memory Hole is a rather sparse grid of cells each containing a link to a different video. Under the video are buttons that allow the user to share it on either Facebook or Twitter.

Search Interest

External References

^[1] The Memory Hole – Memory Hole

^[2] DomainTools – WHOIS for MemoryHole.biz

^[3] Everything is Terrible! – Memory Hole!

^[4] Vice.com – The Memory Hole Collects the 90s Home Movies That Were Too Weird for TV

^[5] Wikipedia – America's Funniest Home Videos premise

^[6] YouTube – Memory Hole