[partially lost] uncensored 2009 mtv video music awards

the 2009 mtv video music awards were one of the most infamous ever, mostly because of kanye west interrupting taylor swift’s speech, but what a lot of people don’t realize is that the uncensored live broadcast and multiple alternate angles of the incident are basically lost media. the original live version had explicit language intact, but every official replay and upload since then has censored it. there were also multiple camera angles of kanye’s interruption that aired live but were never included in later broadcasts, including one where he’s seen flipping the middle finger while walking offstage. we know this footage existed because there are gifs of these moments, but the actual video clips have completely disappeared. tons of youtube uploads that could’ve had this footage have been wiped, either from copyright strikes or old accounts getting deleted, and even archive.org doesn’t have backups of them. it’s crazy that one of the biggest pop culture moments of the 2000s has missing footage that we might never get back. if anyone somehow has an old dvr recording or knows where to find this, it would be huge for tracking down this lost footage