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- (chuckling) Oh. I know this.
- Oh, I've seen this. This looks familiar.
- It's YouTube Rewind.
- I know what this is. I'm in this.
(ding) - (Dwayne Johnson) Bring it.
- This is my first year getting to react to this.
I feel like this is a rite of passage.
- You guys are just making me watch this
'cause I wasn't in this one either, huh?
- I heard you were in this.
- I heard you were in this. - Yeah, we are.
- I wonder where they filmed this.
- Oh, look at those beautiful boys, Dan and Phil.
- ♪ I'm sorry ♪
- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, Swoozie.
- ♪ Sorry, sorry ♪
- ♪ You don't gotta go to ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Work, work, work, work, work ♪
- ♪ I know you're always on that night shift ♪
- Oh, now we're in the Olympics.
- You guys ready for the coolest part?
That's the coolest part right there! Oh man.
- ♪ 'Cause baby, you're the boss at home ♪
- Glad they gave Casey a little spotlight. He's earned it.
- ♪ ...te llamas, yo no sé ♪ - Yes.
They had a lot of international stars this year.
- I love all the other countries. It's so cool.
- Oh, Dude Perfect. Of course.
- Pewds.
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- ♪ At night... ♪ - I think this is my favorite part ♪
- ♪ ...you ♪
♪ I want... ♪
- I did the Running Man Challenge for, like, hours.
- Was THAT this year? Wow.
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- (boy) Damn, Daniel!
- That's the "Damn, Daniel" kid, right?
- He's not even really a YouTuber.
- (imitating) Damn, Daniel! - Is that who that is? Ohh.
- You didn't know who that was?
- I don't know what his face looks like.
I know what his shoes look like. - What?! What?!
- ♪ Pen pineapple apple pen ♪
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- I love how they included "Pen Pineapple Apple Pen."
- ♪ We can work from home ♪
- All the gaming channels are so cool.
- They called the people who I was with there last year.
But then no, I'm not.
- Oh. Here I am!! YES!!!
That was me. Did you see me?
- ♪ ...down ♪
♪ Is it too late to say I'm sorry now? ♪ - Look at that.
Jacksepticeye controlling all the people.
- ♪ No, I can't stop ♪ - Oh yeah.
Liza, she's so cute.
- That was on my toe.
I don't know if anybody realized that was my toe,
but that was the best cameo of all.
- Oh, hundred layer-- you know, I like that.
There you go. You got the holy trinity.
- Right here, me.
- (shrilly) There you are! - Ah, yes.
- Here it is.
- Ooh, it's me.
- I feel like there's usually so many references that I don't get
'cause I'm not cool enough to get them.
- I know the bottle thing.
That's the first thing I've recognized.
- Do it. Do it. Land.
- My god, water bottle flips. Wow.
- Oh, Lilly-oncé! - Lilly.
- That was Lilly. - Yes, epic queen.
- Yes, Lilly. Oh.
- That's an awesome spotlight for Superwoman.
- Oh. Who's that-- who's that dude way, way in the back?
He kinda looked like me.
- ♪ Hey ♪
♪ I was doing just fine before I met you ♪
♪ I drank too much, and that's the issue ♪
♪ But I'm okay ♪ - Aw, Jesse and Jeana pillow-fighting
are kinda like that bittersweet.
- Ah! There we are. Yeah. - Yes, all day.
- This dance scene seems so fun.
- (chuckling) - (imitates explosion)
- (laughs) - Mind blown.
- I love James Corden.
- This is so iconic. I'm so jealous.
- I was so jealous of this. James Corden, are you kidding me?
- This was such a smart segment for him to make.
- Yeah.
- (James Corden) YouTube Rewind.
- (others) Done. - (Corden) 2016.
- I loved it. It was so fun.
It just makes you really happy being a YouTuber.
- If that is a summary of 2016,
I welcome 2017 with eager eyes.
- Getting into YouTubers React is a rite of passage.
Getting to react to the Rewind is another rite of passage.
Made it!
Achievement unlocked.
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- (FBE) Overall, what did you think
of YouTube's Rewind this year? - There was a lot of colors.
- Well produced.
I wasn't in it, but that's okay.
- I really liked it. It had a lot of good vibes.
- I loved YouTube Rewind this year.
It had a mixture of a bunch of different stuff,
a bunch of different memes and stuff, including my face.
- This was more close, so you could really pinpoint faces.
- My favorite part was seeing people that we now know
in this productions that are getting increasingly bigger budget.
- This year's wasn't quite as good as last year's.
It's hard to beat last year's though,
because it was the ten-year anniversary.
And so there was a lot of deep themes that were expressed.
- I've been on YouTube for over a decade now.
And finally, this year they asked me to be a part of it.
Just to be a part of it was a lot of fun.
- (FBE) So what was your experience like
being in YouTube Rewind this year?
- YouTube Rewind was so much fun this year.
I think my part was really easy,
'cause all we did was lay down and do pillow fight.
- It was really fun. We had a LONG day.
And it's just crazy how much time
goes into such a small amount of actual Rewind.
- So there was a moment where it cuts
to a hundred layers of nail polish challenge on a toe.
It was my toe.
I had to come to set 11 hours earlier
so that they could paint on a hundred layers of nail polish.
- You're getting to meet a lot of other YouTubers
who you wouldn't cross paths with otherwise.
And you're doing it all in celebration
of this wild, wacky thing we call YouTube.
- (FBE) So Rewind over the years is very beloved.
But this year, there's a lot more public negativity from fans.
As a comparison, Rewinds from 2013 and '14
had about 65,000 dislikes. 2015 had 165,000 dislikes.
And this one, in less than a week,
already has over 350,000 dislikes.
- Seriously?!
- It's kind of a meme now to be like,
"Oh, let's see how cringy YouTube Rewind is this year."
- (FBE) Do you think it's because
they didn't like the Rewind this year, or was it something else?
- Yeah, that's a really good question.
Maybe there's so many more YouTubers now that we aren't aware of.
I felt like I knew a lot of the YouTubers in it.
But maybe they feel like a lot of people are being left out now,
'cause there's so many more.
- And because of the traditional media influence in it.
And maybe people feel anger towards that.
- Everyone has their favorite creator.
When they don't see them in the video, you know,
it can be like, "What's going on here?
I'm bummed now. I don't like this video."
- This year, there was definitely more negativity on YouTube
than there has been in previous years,
like just with, like, the whole thing
with people supporting the drama channels.
That has kind of cultivated a little bit of negative vibes.
- The more YouTube becomes popular,
the more entitled the viewers are
and the more they feel like they won't be satisfied.
- The quality of entertainment is going up.
So these little shticks where people are dancing and singing
and lip-syncing and so on and so forth
aren't gonna fly like they used to.
- (FBE) So as we celebrate Rewind, we're also in the midst
of arguably the most public controversy
between YouTube and its creators.
Many channels are seeing their view counts
drop heavily out of nowhere.
And many feel that YouTube changed their algorithm
and subscribers are not being notified in the Recommended section
of the YouTube homepage as much as they used to.
Have you experienced this on your channel?
- I'll be honest, I kinda have a little bit.
I've noticed a drop in views.
I'm just kind of taken back, like,
"Wait, what exactly is YouTube doing?
Is it something that I'm doing as a creator?"
- It is a very polarizing time,
and these concerns are both legit and scary.
I believe there is a way to bring it up
just in a non-polarizing way.
- Does YouTube not really need its creator community?
'Cause the bottom line for any company is the bottom line.
And if they get more views... - There's money in views.
- ...when they have late-night shows posting their--
and they're promoting their videos... - Promoting viral...
- ...as opposed to promoting our content
or anyone else's content, that's the money talk.
- If videos are not popping up for people
who have subscribed to said creator, then it's useless.
- Something's changing. - Something's changing.
- But maybe they haven't figured it out yet. I don't know.
I don't know. - That's like, the core of YouTube
should be like, if you subscribe,
you get to watch these videos. - Yeah, it's like--
- And I feel like that's the number-one commandment of YouTube.
- The main thing is that a lot of people just don't know
when someone uploads a new video.
There should be a way where you can see all the videos
you're subscribed to popping up in your subscription box.
- Communication would be a great thing to see improved.
Might bring about YouTube to be more transparent
with not necessarily how the code, how the algorithm works,
but when changes are made, giving the high-level overview of,
"This is what our goal is. This is why we're doing it."
- YouTube is constantly changing and doing things
to improve the site as a whole.
But they never do a good job of communicating
the value proposition to the creators,
who have built their lifestyles on this.
And so if you're a creator who does have a business and a life
and people who work for you
all depending on that ad revenue check and something changes
and you're not communicated as to why or what, it's really scary.
- What's something in your YouTube career or your life
that you are very proud of or most memorable for you
that happened in 2016? - Let's see, this year.
I guess it was pretty recent. Getting out a music video
that had been in the works for over a year.
- I did have a show come out this year,
and we got a second season. So I'm very excited for that.
- The opportunity to actually meet the pope
as an ambassador of digital creators and of YouTubers
and talk to him about the impact of cyberbullying.
- It was really cool making that transition from six seconds
to my first video on YouTube was 12 minutes.
A lot of Viners are transitioning over into YouTube, because,
rest in peace, it's dead now.
So a lot of people, a lot of creators want to keep creating.
And YouTube's the place to do that.
- (FBE) Finally, one year from now,
what is one prediction you have about YouTube?
- One prediction I have about YouTube.
YouTube Red is gonna become really, really big.
- The "meme trend" was really popping during Vine.
And Vine was viral everything, six-second everything.
But I think we're transitioning into a phase of YouTube
where memes are no longer considered funny
but just kind of annoying.
- At the end of the day,
YouTube knows that it can't alienate its core audience.
Finding a better balance between where they're headed
and pleasing the top creators and making sure
that this is still a place where interesting, creative content
can be found and where that "get up and go" attitude
that has always existed on YouTube can continue.
I think that that'll exist into 2017.
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- Hey, everybody. Benny here, producer of YouTubers React.
Thank you for watching our annual
YouTubers React to YouTube Rewind. Always fascinating
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We've covered YouTube Rewind every year.
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