Editing VidLii (section)

=== Vlare, VidLii Remake, and departure of Jan (2018-2022) ===
In May 2019, Vlare, a site originally starting as a custom theme for VidLii in 2018 before it was decided to spin it off into it's own site, was launched and most of the VidLii community moved to the new site or left the community in general. Even though VidLii remained up its future was in question as Vlare began to become bigger than VidLii, particularly during the COPPA scare on YouTube in late 2019 that led to many channels fleeing to many YouTube alternatives and rocketing Vlare's userbase up significantly for a few months. However, Vlare's abrupt shutdown in August 2020 and the subsequent failure to revive the site caused a lot of the userbase that came from VidLii to return. However, the drama on the site caused several users to leave to other alternative sites or just leave the community altogether.

Throughout 2020 and 2021, Jan began a project to remake all of VidLii with a better code which would allow him to modernize the site and add more features without as much difficulty as he did previously. But after assessing the situation, Jan decided he would repurpose the VidLii remake to being a revival of VidBit instead. This came shortly after VidLii was banned off Adsense around January 2022 not long after it was reported to Google along with an unknown third party finding a massive exploit that would let them to access the admin panel of VidLii.  

A week before the sites were scheduled to merge with each other, Lolwut and Kuz of the Russian-based Kolyma Network joined the VidBit Discord server, wanting to speak with Jan about buying VidLii and its sister site, BitView. After Jan spoke to Lolwut and Kuz about it, Jan accepted the offer for VidLii and its sister site BitView for €1.7k in cryptocurrency. While the sale was pending, ex-VidLii user and later co-owner of Bittoco, Hush, warned Jan to pull out of the deal, mainly due to her concern over Kuz's sketchy behavior; by the time that these warnings were given, however, it was too late as the sale was nearly finalized. An argument ensued between Kuz and Hush, which led to Kuz telling Hush to kill herself and getting banned off the VidBit Discord server.  

On February 10th, 2022. VidLii went down for a short amount of time as a result of the transfer of servers to the new owners; not long after, Jan endorsed VidLii and its new owners, along with announcing the discontinuation of the VidBit remake project, but withdrew his endorsement later that year after what happened to the site afterwards.