Yep, excellent summary.OK, so here's the deal. On the Sean Cody website, there are only 42 videos available from the first 7 years 2001-2007. A lot of those videos are solos.
all videos from 2008 were completely deleted.
There are 29 videos from the next 5 years 2009-2013.
all videos from 2014 was also completely deleted.
So, from the first 14 years of sean cody, we have less than 100 vids.
Baring a few small gaps, the videos past late febuary 2015 are still available. I don't think it's a coincidence that whispers of a Mindgeek aquisition were happening in January of 2015. Exclusive: Sean Cody Acquired By Mindgeek/Manwin, A.k.a. the Same Company That Owns Men.com - TheSword.com
Also, The Pornhub scandal and news firestorm happened in early December of 2020, while Sean cody began deleting their vids a few weeks after.
It's very obvious what happened, The timeline lines up too well. The scandal spooked mindgeek, and they realized that the old sean cody vids either didn't have the right documentation or the documentation was lost. So, they bit the bullet and deleted all the vids to make sure to be safe and not sorry.
Only one more point to add.
After deleting al the videos, Mindgeek then spun some BS stories about how they were only doing "maintenance," or some such, and the videos would be returning. They gambled that most people would lose interest in the whole fuss after a couple of weeks, and they were probably right.
And today, 2+ years later, SC is a phantom of what it once was. It's a zombie site from which you cannot download with a standard membership, and where the videos are all recent ones nobody would want to download anyway.