I felt a disturbance in the force....as if tens of thousands of YouTube subscribers screamed out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
I can't say I was a subscriber from "the very beginning" of Photonicinduction's channel, but I was pretty damn close, back when it was mostly popular with only the people that knew what they were really looking at, maybe of the first 1,000 subscribers. But now, to find out all of his material is gone, on what seems like a whim? It feels like someone ran over my dog or something: angry and sad, definitely a loss all around.
I can understand where he was coming from, and agree with what Dave said. The pressure to perform must be tremendous, and the phenomenon of haters and trolls can make productivity suffer tremendously; for some reason, that's what our minds (as creators) can concentrate on, even if not deliberately. One of those "someone is wrong on the Internet" things. I feel bad for him in a way, but yeah, definitely better ways of dealing with it, IMHO.
I'm hoping he returns, too, and that there's at least good copies of his 'experiments', somewhere out there. I hate to hope for some sense of loss and emptiness on his part, but that may be the only tangible impetus for coming back. It might be a few years before we see anything though if he's truly serious about it.