Update 2: It appears that YouTube and VG Boot Camp were able to restore the videos and resolve the issue.

Update: YouTube is "already working to help [VG Boot Camp's Calvin "GimR" Lofton] fix [the title renaming issue]," according to a Twitter post by Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's Director of Global Gaming Content & Partnerships.

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The YouTube presence for the largest Super Smash Bros. streaming group has been affected by a costly mistake, undermining six years of work in the process.

VG Boot Camp's YouTube video titles were accidentally changed to the same phrase by a contracted video manager, disrupting internal view counts and other essential data for 12,500 uploads. As most of the organization's revenue comes from YouTube, this is a serious blow to its financial solvency. Editor's Picks Fnatic and Virtus.pro triumph in ELeague semifinals

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Calvin "GimR" Lofton, president of VG Boot Camp, explained what happened to the internet's largest archive of Super Smash Bros. videos in a hastily uploaded YouTube video.

In the video, GimR explained that in an effort to keep up with the demand from fans, he and his team had been trying to upload matches to YouTube as quickly as possible while still streaming. This juggling act was taking a toll on GimR, so he decided to outsource instant match uploads.

A potential video manager, who GimR did not name, was recommended to him by another tournament organizer. This contractor had experience instantly uploading tournament sets for other channels. Unfortunately, this person accidentally changed the name of every video on the VG Boot Camp channel.

Currently, every title reads "SF5 Smash 4 - Serge (Lucario) Vs. Darkfall (Link) SSB4 Tournament - Smash Wii U."

GimR reached out to YouTube and was told that the issue would be challenging to resolve. In GimR's own words: "I am basically screwed."

Although it is possible to change every title back by hand, much of the damage has already been done. Recommended views -- views of a video that come from being recommended at the end of another video or on the sidebar -- account for 30 percent of VG Boot Camp's traffic. YouTube pushes recommended videos according to title and the number of views from recommendations. If a word is changed on a title, that internal view counter resets. This means that VG Boot Camp's videos will now cease to populate in recommended video placements, as all internal views are null.

Potentially losing 30 percent of viewership would be damaging for VG Boot Camp financially, since its less lucrative but popular streaming services have been supported by its YouTube revenue. The organization has tried to supplement its income with Twitch subscriptions, but that hasn't panned out as well as it hoped.

The Smash community has rallied around VG Boot Camp in a strong show of support. GimR and VG Boot Camp fans are holding out hope that there might be some way to restore the changed titles. As its channel boasts 150,000 subscribers and over 104 million views, there will be many watching to see how this situation plays out.

ESPN has reached out to GimR and YouTube for comment.