- I strongly dislike this.
- This is such a better Rewind video than last year's.
♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (gasps) YouTube Rewind. - Oh, is this the Rewind?
You're kidding! - I always get nervous
before it starts, 'cause I'm like, "Is it gonna be a good year
or a bad year?" - (group) K-pop!
- Oh my god! I hated that part of 2018!
I was like, "No, this is already cringy. I hate it."
- (group) K-pop! - Oh my gosh. I actually love these.
I don't know why it gets so much hate.
- (woman) That is so awkward to watch.
- Oh, they actually put RiceGum in this. That's awful!
- Right. - (man) The most disliked video
in the history of YouTube. - Yeah, I didn't like it to be honest.
- Oh! They're aware. (laughs) - "In 2018, we made something
you didn't like." Yes, we know that.
- "So in 2019, let's see what you did like,
because you're better at this than we are."
- Oh, so they're getting videos based off of likes.
That's actually stupid smart. - Oh my gosh. Eugene's video.
That was so sick. I love the dancing in that.
(gasps) NikkieTutorials. Tati. - To see how this is
gonna play out is gonna be kind of interesting or me,
'cause I already am kinda like, "Eh." - Is that a shoe?
Did she just eat a shoe?! - It's a good start.
Jenna Marbles, still relevant. - Oh my god! Connor! I love him!
- Emma Chamberlain! Oh my god! - ♪ ...turn me to a savage? ♪
♪ Rather be tied up... ♪ - KSI. (laughs)
- Oh, oh. This is the UCLA student. She kills it!
- "You made these the most liked creator videos of 2019, duh."
(laughs) - Oh my god. Shane is the king
of YouTube. - Okay, so we're making a little bit
of a chart. That feels safe.
- James Charles.
- ♪ Lashes and diamonds, ATM machines ♪
- This format is weird. - 54 voices. That's pretty cool.
That's some talent. - This is edited so fast.
I just can't keep up.
- (claps) Congrats to PewDiePie. - MrBeast. All right.
Dude, MrBeast had the best year on YouTube.
- Is that the boy, Lil Nas X? Billie Eilish too? Oh, [bleep].
- We got a lot of really good music this year.
- T-Se-- oh my god! Why does that feel
like a lifetime ago? - Ooh. Chicken noodle soup!
- Lil Dicky's pretty cool. - Oh, Ariana. Yup.
She's the queen. - Lil Nas X, the most wholesome dude
in the rap game right now. - Old Town Road.
Billie Eilish. - Oh! BLACKPINK!
- These numbers are insane. - Of course, BTS.
- All right. BTS, yeah. They had a big year.
- Of course they're number one, because they're the whole love couple
everyone's talking about and [bleep].
- Oh, dance videos. I spend hours with these.
- Is that one of the top categories? 'Cause I don't know-- that's so weird.
- I don't know how I feel about this format,
but it's fun to look back on it. - I'm not liking this.
I mean, it's just showing what is the most liked.
- Of course. You got the video games.
♪ (Billie Eilish, "Bad Guy") ♪
And then "Bad Guy" playing in the background.
- Roblox. Don't know how. - I'm not even focusing
on what's actually on the screen, 'cause Billie's playing
in the background right now. - I strongly dislike this.
The more I'm watching it, the more I'm getting bored.
- Fortnight's only two? Oh. Of course.
Minecraft's number one. - That's so insane that Minecraft
made such a big comeback. It was so 2012,
and this year they're like, "Psych! We're back!"
- These guys make so much money. It's [bleep] crazy. (laughs)
Jeffree Star! Another-- oh my god. - Oh, the beauty community.
Ooh. Does anyone have tea that I can drink?
- Oh, Kylie Jenner. Bro, I wanna meet her one day.
She's so cool. - This whole little series
that Shane and Jeffree Star had, it's about makeup. Why was I crying?
- James Charles. - And of course, James Charles
coming in at number one. - ♪ Did a full 180 ♪
- Okay, that's cool. They're giving a shoutout
to breakout creators. Normally, they don't really do that.
- Oh, this is the coolest. I like this idea.
- Why are they including this? - I did recognize the girl
that lives in her van. I love her.
- Noah Schnapp created a YouTube. See, I didn't know that.
- That's cool. - It's good that
the international people are rising up.
- ♪ I'm not where you left me... ♪ - I really like this format.
It's so much better. - Most viewed creators.
- Azzyland. Dude, Azzyland is top 10?
That's weird. LazarBeam, all right.
- Oh okay, MrBeast. Oh, this is the whole planting trees thing.
- (MrBeast) Let's plant some trees! - MrBeast had a good year.
- Dude Perfect. That's cool. David Dobrik.
- David Dobrik! Honestly, he's so cool.
- Jelly. I used to watch him, just not my style anymore.
- YouTube is such a vast field, though.
- Felipe Neto. - PewDiePie. He's in it twice.
That's a first. - He's always gonna be number one.
(laughs) - "Thank you for
a record-breaking 2019." - ♪ Don't show up ♪
♪ Don't come out ♪ ♪ Don't come out ♪
♪ Don't start caring about me now ♪ ♪ About me now ♪
♪ Walk away ♪ - I really like the format
of this one. It gives so much recognition.
- This is such a better Rewind video than last year's.
- Kurzgesagt. Oh, Kurzgesagt is awesome!
- ♪ Don't come out ♪ ♪ Don't come out, out ♪
♪ Walk away, walk away ♪ - T-Series. You're really--
they're really still praising T-Series!
- Oh, my queen, Rosalía, yes! Yes!
- ♪ Walk away, walk away ♪ - I just love how
it's so international. This is so cute.
- ♪ Walk away, walk away, ah ♪
- That was so good. (claps) Good job, YouTube.
- I liked the breakdown, to be able to see all the records.
I think that's super cool. But I almost don't feel as entertained
as I have in the past. - They could've done better
for the end of the decade. Even if they did it horribly last year,
that doesn't mean you should scrap the whole format.
- We don't really need to see what the top things are,
'cause we already know. We're the ones watching it.
- This didn't recap the year. This just showed, "Hey,
these people existed in the year." The thing about YouTube Rewind
that made it special was seeing all these content creators together
and doing something really cool. - (FBE) So, here at FBE,
we have a tradition of covering YouTube Rewind and have been doing so
for several years now, actually. We're gonna go over what other people
are saying about this in just a second.
But before we do, what did you think
about this year's Rewind compared to past Rewinds?
- This is actually the best one to be honest.
I think showcasing the YouTubers and showing what video was
and everything, I think that's what YouTube's all about.
It's like, show the recognition to the people that make these videos.
They work so hard for it. - It's awful.
It captures nothing what YouTube was like this year.
They didn't mention all the trends that have happened.
They're just showing, "Hey, this is what we think you like,
because you watched this stuff." - Growing up, I loved to be like,
"Oh my god. YouTube Rewind's coming out."
And you'd get to see all your favorite creators
almost come into this giant music video.
This felt like they were playing it safe,
but it was still really, really impressive to see
all the numbers and how big of a platform YouTube really is.
- (FBE) So, we're actually filming this right after
the video was released, so we wanna take a moment
and have you go live
in the comments right now and see what people
are saying about this. - Oh my god. Oh, no.
- I wanna see what the liked is-- (laughs)
Last time I checked, it was at 10K likes and 3K dislikes.
It's now at 46,000 likes and 40,000 dislikes.
- "They actually made a top 10 YouTube Rewind video."
It's like a WatchMojo video. That's all it is pretty much.
That's not what I expected. - "This one's even sadder."
Wait. (chuckles) It's not sad.
I thought it was really heartwarming. Wait.
- "So basically, you compiled a bunch of statistics
in a five-minute video. Nice work, YouTube.
Any competent YouTuber would've done a better job.
Screw you, YouTube. I've been waiting six months for this."
Unnecessarily negative. YouTube's listening at least.
That's what matters is that they're pointing themselves
in the right direction. - "So instead of actually
having a Rewind, they literally just took clips of creators' videos
and said, 'Yeah, a job well done.'" So, it seems like people
are agreeing with me. They're like, "This video's boring."
- (FBE) As you saw, in this year's Rewind,
they decided to only use clips from videos as a list
of the most liked content on the platform. Last year's Rewind,
titled "Everyone Controls Rewind" received a heavy amount of hate
from fans and became the most disliked video on YouTube,
currently sitting at over 17 million dislikes.
- (chuckles) Holy [bleep]. That's painful.
- (FBE) What do you think they changed based on the response
to last year's Rewind to help try and make this one more accepted
by the YouTube community? - So, what they took out
is the personality and the creativity and instead they replaced it
by objectivity by just going off likes and numerical values.
- YouTube, I guess, saw all the comments
that this isn't what they liked, so they were really thinking hard
about what they did like. And they took it too seriously
and took it by the actual amount of likes on each video,
and that's now how it works. - It was more the fun they took away
of it, because if you watch the old ones, it looked like everyone
was having so much more fun. - What they did last year was
at least a Rewind in a sense. It was just cringy.
This, they just made a list saying, "This got views.
This got views. This got views."
Even though they were trying to stay on the safe side,
they went about it all wrong. - They took our vote of likes
to prove, "You guys liked this. No matter what you say or not,
this is what you statistically picked over everything else,
so this is what we'll show you." - (FBE) The first YouTube Rewind
originally came out in 2010. And since then, YouTube has released
a new Rewind every December as a recap of the memes,
viral videos, trends, and music from the year.
Throughout the years, YouTube Rewind kept getting bigger and bigger,
trying to include all the big names from the platform, leading to more
and more fans being upset by the things that were missing.
Was there anyone or anything that you wished had made it
into Rewind this year? - Like YouTubers?
- (FBE) Yeah. - The Dolan twins.
- I wish Cody Ko had made it. - I did not see animators there.
I didn't see Jaiden. I didn't see James.
- There's a guy in SlowMo Guys named Gavin Free I love.
And I wish he was in there, because he's been
in all the past previous ones. And Rooster Teeth,
even, like, them 'cause he's also a part of that,
like Achievement Hunter or something. - Tyler Oakley has been
in every single year's, and this time he's not?
That's disrespectful! (laughs) Where's Miranda Sings?
She's still iconic. She just had a baby!
- Me Me Big Boy wasn't there. Jacksfilms wasn't there.
I mean, obviously, us. - We missed the entire meme culture
of it, because they were just giving us the stats
of everyone who made it big. We didn't get everything
that was actually trending. - PewDiePie should've got
some recognition besides being the most watched creator of the year.
They didn't say anything about him hitting 100 million subs.
They put that clip of him in there, but if you've never seen that video
or you don't really know the context, then it doesn't matter.
Even MrBeast, though he was in one of the most liked videos
and one of the most viewed creators, they didn't mention Team Trees,
which is something that YouTube actively shouted out
and donated towards. - (FBE) When YouTube was first created
in 2005, the world of social media was pretty different than it is now.
Now that there seems to be so many new social platforms
like TikTok, Twitch, and more, how does YouTube compare
from just a few years ago to now? - Oh my god.
It's changed so much. Now there's so many people
on this platform, and I think that's the thing,
watching and creating. It's almost diluting everything
to where it's like there's so much happening.
I didn't even know half the people that were in that.
- The content that people put out is definitely a lot different.
I feel like it doesn't follow such a strict-- like,
oh, it has to meet these guidelines or whatever.
I feel like you can find anything and everything
on YouTube now. - I used to feel like YouTube
was sort of this platform that people could go to
and watch their favorite creators. Now I feel like YouTube's sort of
just like a filing cabinet for everything you can think of.
So, I feel like, that being said, over time, it's kind of watered down
what YouTube really was back in the day.
- There's just oversaturation of content right now.
YouTube used to have this small community feel,
where you were a part of something. I went to VidCon and I knew
all the top creators. It was a small inside joke you were in on.
- It's more the quality of the content.
You have the YouTube Red series and then people like Shane Dawson,
they're not even charging for these type of documentary-type films.
- (FBE) So finally, what do you think next year's
YouTube Rewind will look like? - They're probably gonna
incorporate TikTok stars. Maybe one day, a huge TikTok star
will migrate over to YouTube and then start their own channel
and then make it big there, and they're gonna be featured
on Rewind 2020. - YouTube's continually gonna expand,
so there's gonna be even more niche, weird content that blows up.
- There's gonna be the circle of relevant names,
and then there's gonna be a new wave of a few people,
and we're all gonna love them, and then that's gonna be it.
That's what happens every year. (laughs)
- Thanks for watching FBE's annual reaction to YouTube Rewind.
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- What did you think of this year's Rewind?
Let us know in the comments. - Bye, guys.
- Hey, guys. It's Sierra, producer here at FBE.
Thanks so much for watching us react to this year's YouTube Rewind.
If you wanna see our other episodes, including some of our reactions
past Rewinds, check out those links down in the description. Bye, guys.