Yeah, even having a screenshot record (which I have done for a few premieres of mine at virtual vidding conventions hosted on Discord, or group fanvid-watching parties on Discord where something I did was part of the vidshow) isn't the same thing, somehow. I don't know why? I mean, maybe it's my own vanity about being seen to be praised, but also screenshots themselves feel a bit ephemeral and I have to go to the trouble of archiving and backing them up myself to make them less so, which is more work than I care to do, so it ends up disappearing either with the device the screenshot is on or if it vanishes from the cloud, which you can never guarantee won't happen. I mean, I guess you can never guarantee that AO3 won't go poof either under unforeseen circumstances, but at least its stated intention is to be a fandom archive that tries not to go poof unexpectedly.