The strange case of the dissapearing WarioWare Gold Character Trailers

Glowsquid

Mental midget
Diamond City Leader
As you may know, back in 2018 after WarioWare Gold was released, Nintendo started uploading bi-weekly "character trailers" for WW Gold on its social media channels animated by Ko Takeuchi. They weren,t the most coherent or gorgeously-animated but they were a nice bit of fanservice.

We don't know when it happened but Japanese fans just noticed Nintendo scrubbed them from the internet: they're gone from the Japanese website, the Youtube uploads have been privated and the tweets on Nintendo's Japanese Twitter account about them have been deleted. It's all a bit weird and too thorough to be just an error. Did Ko Takeuchi have a failing out with Nintendo or something?

The western uploads and tweets are still currently up but someone *might* want to back them up.
 
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NCL has an habit of privating their older youtube ads at seemingly random and for no apparent reason so if the western uploads aren't gone soon-ish (like say, within the week), that probably is just that. That they went out of their way to also delete tweets is *kinda* sus though, but I don't know their patterns for that.

Edit: The plot thickens! It has been found an old promo page was updated with a tooltip saying the videos were removed on July 10 (It was not there as late as May of this year, I checked with wayback machine). It does look like this is just NCL's arbitrary scrubbing of old promos as you can find similar disclaimers elswhere on the site (like here)
 
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