Bring back the "Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart" to YouTube

The Issue

The "Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart" was recently taken down from YouTube ("The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" channel). Now that it's gone from YouTube, it is virtually impossible to find online. It made internet history, went viral in a short amount of time, and it was on its way to becoming the single most viewed video on Jimmy Fallon's channel. Millions of people continued to enjoy it. Its absolute hilarity made it so popular and it deserves to be re watched in the coming years as reminder of a moment that broke the internet. The original upload of it on Jimmy Fallon's YouTube channel has to be brought back and we should all fight to ensure that happens. 

Online clips from televised shows, not just Jimmy Fallon's show, have been removed from YouTube in the past. However, given its massive popularity and positive reception, the "Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart" should not have been one of those.

"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" introduced the world to a newly popular phenomena of lip sync. Clips from the successful NBC show are frequently uploaded to YouTube and often go viral within a short amount of time. Among these clips are lip sync battles, the most popular segments of the show. Lip sync battles have become defining moments not only in television but also in social media due to their sheer comedic entertainment. With the rising popularity of apps such as "musical.ly" and the introduction of "Lip Sync Battle" on Spike TV due to the success of lip sync battles on the "Tonight Show", there is no doubt that lip syncing has made a massive impact. One of the key defining moments in the popularity of lip synching was the "Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart", which was publicly accessible on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" YouTube channel. It amassed over 60 million views and was the second most viewed video on the channel.

The "Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart" was a great mood-lifter in many ways and people continued to visit the video to re watch it and be extremely amused by it. Everything about the lip sync battle had its appeal to many different people of different generations. Seeing Will Ferrell, a man in his forties, pretending to be the sexy Beyonce with his moves and lip synching skills, was one of the most hysterical TV moments that deservedly made its place online. Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore doing "Dirty Dancing" was a nice slice of nostalgia to all the guys who grew up in the 80s. Considering how big the positive reception of the whole lip sync battle was, the fact that it was taken down is a slap in the face to the public.


It is highly unfortunate that one of the most popular and entertaining lip sync battles is no longer to be found. Please bring back this lip sync battle to "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" channel on YouTube. It made history and it deserves to be revisited in the coming years as a reminder of one of the epitomes of the phenomena that brings pleasure and joy to many people worldwide; lip syncing songs. Whether or not this video was deleted because of copyright, every effort should be done to bring it back and contact the rights holder to ensure that it stays on YouTube. Hopefully none of the other lip sync battles will be deleted but if they do, action should be taken to ensure that they also stay on YouTube. This particular lip sync battle, however, is extremely important to the history of lip sync battles and drastic action should be taken to bring it back to YouTube. It reached 65 million views for a reason, and those views should not be just tossed away for nothing. Its likes and views truly meant something here online. It deserved to stay and it deserves to come back.

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The Issue

The "Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart" was recently taken down from YouTube ("The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" channel). Now that it's gone from YouTube, it is virtually impossible to find online. It made internet history, went viral in a short amount of time, and it was on its way to becoming the single most viewed video on Jimmy Fallon's channel. Millions of people continued to enjoy it. Its absolute hilarity made it so popular and it deserves to be re watched in the coming years as reminder of a moment that broke the internet. The original upload of it on Jimmy Fallon's YouTube channel has to be brought back and we should all fight to ensure that happens. 

Online clips from televised shows, not just Jimmy Fallon's show, have been removed from YouTube in the past. However, given its massive popularity and positive reception, the "Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart" should not have been one of those.

"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" introduced the world to a newly popular phenomena of lip sync. Clips from the successful NBC show are frequently uploaded to YouTube and often go viral within a short amount of time. Among these clips are lip sync battles, the most popular segments of the show. Lip sync battles have become defining moments not only in television but also in social media due to their sheer comedic entertainment. With the rising popularity of apps such as "musical.ly" and the introduction of "Lip Sync Battle" on Spike TV due to the success of lip sync battles on the "Tonight Show", there is no doubt that lip syncing has made a massive impact. One of the key defining moments in the popularity of lip synching was the "Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart", which was publicly accessible on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" YouTube channel. It amassed over 60 million views and was the second most viewed video on the channel.

The "Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart" was a great mood-lifter in many ways and people continued to visit the video to re watch it and be extremely amused by it. Everything about the lip sync battle had its appeal to many different people of different generations. Seeing Will Ferrell, a man in his forties, pretending to be the sexy Beyonce with his moves and lip synching skills, was one of the most hysterical TV moments that deservedly made its place online. Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore doing "Dirty Dancing" was a nice slice of nostalgia to all the guys who grew up in the 80s. Considering how big the positive reception of the whole lip sync battle was, the fact that it was taken down is a slap in the face to the public.


It is highly unfortunate that one of the most popular and entertaining lip sync battles is no longer to be found. Please bring back this lip sync battle to "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" channel on YouTube. It made history and it deserves to be revisited in the coming years as a reminder of one of the epitomes of the phenomena that brings pleasure and joy to many people worldwide; lip syncing songs. Whether or not this video was deleted because of copyright, every effort should be done to bring it back and contact the rights holder to ensure that it stays on YouTube. Hopefully none of the other lip sync battles will be deleted but if they do, action should be taken to ensure that they also stay on YouTube. This particular lip sync battle, however, is extremely important to the history of lip sync battles and drastic action should be taken to bring it back to YouTube. It reached 65 million views for a reason, and those views should not be just tossed away for nothing. Its likes and views truly meant something here online. It deserved to stay and it deserves to come back.

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