[Narrator]: You asked for it.
Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and as we near our ninth anniversary, we bring you the top ten memorable WatchMojo videos of 2014.
[Ron Burgundy]: I can't believe you did this to me. You read my news.
[Narrator]: If you think for one second that we’re gonna limit the picks to ten awesome videos to remind you of how amazing we are, think again.
These are the good, the bad and the ugly of WatchMojo top tens throughout 2014.
For this list, we’re not ranking the best or the worst: instead we’re highlighting ten that stood out for various reasons.
We’re limiting our choices only to our top 10s, meaning that we’ve excluded how tos, biographies, profiles,
interviews and everything else out of the 8,000-plus videos we’ve done since January 23, 2006.
[Ron Burgundy]: You're a real hooker. I'm going to slap you in public.
[Narrator]: You guys love it when we rip on celebrities, and this one did not disappoint.
[Kanye West]: Yo, Taylor,
I’m really happy for you, I'm [going to] let you finish — but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.
[Narrator]: What’s worse: the guy who allegedly beat his girlfriend? Political pundits who can’t get their feet outta their mouths?
Serial twerkers? It was a tough list to rank, ...
[Sean Avery]: It's become like a common thing in NHL for guys to fall in love with my celebrity seconds.
[Narrator]: ... but if the almost 16,000 likes were any clue, we got it right.
There was some butthurt in the comments, with people calling us left-wing nuts, but if we gave in to all the trolls, we’d be in trouble.
[Kanye West]: I'm the number one rock star on the planet.
[Narrator]: The icing on the cake? Honorable mention Dane Cook retweeted the video. Good sport!
Video game fanatics are an exacting bunch, and – perhaps even more than movie fans – you guys expect to see your favorites on our list.
Unfortunately, we can’t always oblige.
The comments section of Top 10 Modern Video Game Soundtracks was flooded with message after message complaining that favorites had been missed.
There was a similar shit-storm when we released Top 10 First Person Shooters: ...
... the day we uploaded that one was the only day in 2014 when we lost more fans than we gained.
Well, you can’t win ‘em all.
[Announcer]: Looks like he's actually sunk his gnashes in there.
[Narrator]: With other releases like Top 10 Sexy Movie Underwear Scenes or Hilarious Movie Masturbation Scenes,
we bet you wouldn’t have guessed that this sports clip was our most-viewed video for 2014.
[Announcer]: There, he bites him there. You see that there's teeth. And Holyfield in agony at that point, trying to rip free.
[Narrator]: Sure, it was uploaded in mid-February so it’s had all year to accumulate views,
but as of December it had crossed the 15-million mark.
All it took was a little fighting, biting and head butting to rake in the views!
[Dan]: Hey, it's Dan, and welcome to WatchMojo.com, and I'd welcome you to the very first episode of TopX,
where we count down the very best that YouTube has to offer.
[Narrator]: 2014 was the year of the WatchMojo series, and aside from the continuation of What’s Your Mojo? and its spinoff WatchMojo FAQ,
we launched two new shows that were a smash success: WatchMojo News and TopX.
[Dan]: Here on TopX, we take a look at some of the very best YouTube channels that cover a variety of topics.
As stated before, we're taking a look at the top ten Let's Play channels.
[Narrator]: The News series was designed to help give context to ongoing stories that you might be hearing about,
while TopX aimed to help you guys discover great new YouTube content – and to give Dan a little more face time.
[Dan]: Their high-quality cameras and even the drone shots they use sometimes really elevate their videos to... new heights?
[Narrator]: Both got rave reviews online, and gave us the incentive to create new shows in the future – so stay tuned because there’s more to come!
Fun fact number one: We at WatchMojo are actually fans of some of Sandler’s work.
Fun fact number two: Mojoholics are way bigger Sandler fans than we anticipated.
Lists of the top ten worst somethings almost always get more love than the top ten best somethings, which is why this clip was unexpectedly controversial.
This is one of the few WatchMojo videos that actually has more thumbs down than thumbs up – although it’s almost even.
All in all, the list was meant in good fun and to be a sort of a roast, but we admit we missed the mark. *shrug*
[Zohan]: Smell it, smell it, smell it. Now take it.
[Narrator]: You know how we said that negative lists get the most action?
Well, never was that more true than with Top 10 Most Hated Songs.
That’s the 2014 WatchMojo video that got the Mojoholics talking, with the most comments of any video we released this year.
It also had the most likes, with almost 70,000 and counting.
Hey, Miley Cyrus was the thumbnail: we knew you guys would be on board.
When we first decided to do Top 10 National Anthems, we knew it’d be controversial.
Something we did not anticipate, however, was what happened:
As our CEO Ashkan Karbasfrooshan explained on WatchMojo FAQ episode 10,
there’s one verse of the German national anthem that’s closely tied to the Nazi party.
[Ashkan]: But when we kind of married it all together, we did feature an excerpt of the unofficially-banned, frowned-upon version of the anthem.
[Narrator]: Since we’re not actually Nazi sympathizers and didn’t pick up on the nuance,
we accidentally used that verse to showcase the song.
This was such an epic – and potentially offensive – fail on our part, we exceptionally decided to take the video down, re-edit it and re-upload it.
[Ashkan]: We took immediate action. So we never take clips down, but Saturday morning we took it down.
[Narrator]: We also messed up in our Top 10 Mini-Series video by showing the new version of “V” while discussing the old one, ...
... but hey we all make mistakes. Speaking of which…
Now while we wouldn’t call these mistakes – just possibly bad decisions in hindsight –
a lot of Mojoholics would categorize this as the biggest mistake WatchMojo made in 2014.
But there were actually two issues with Hated Disney Shows: to start, we included “Monster High”,
which happens to be distributed on Disney’s online properties around the world but technically is made by Nickelodeon.
We actually thought that would get the most hate, but… we were wrong.
No, our biggest sin was including the very popular “Gravity Falls” on the list,
which, in our defense had received a lot of votes to make the list, but had also received a lot of objections on the suggest list.
All we can say is: always vote on the suggest page to make sure your favorite show isn’t put on a “hated” list.
By the way, we’ve since modified our methodology to reflect net votes.
How do we calculate the most popular video of 2014? Well, in the case of Top 10 Funniest Movie Insults,
it got users engaged and commenting, gained us the most subscribers of any video we released with 10,000,
and earned us over 11-million views and 66-million minutes watched. But all that is just tech talk for: y’all loved it.
And why not? Who wouldn’t wanna listen to a few choice insults, and maybe pick up a few as well? You smelly pirate hookers.
Before we unveil our number one pick, here are a few honorable mentions.
We’ve already said that 2014 was the year of the WatchMojo series, and this one was the king.
An undertaking that involved a total of 10 videos and tons of manpower, the Top 10 Movies of All Time series took a lot of work –
but if the Mojoholics’ reaction was any indication, it was worth it.
With some fans saying that they learned a lot and that it was our best series yet,
this one was the first of our Decade Defining series that inspired us to keep going with our Decade Defining Songs videos and our Video Games Per Generation lists.
So what does this all prove? Just cause you’re good doesn’t mean you're perfect.
But if there’s one guarantee, it’s that each video we produce will be better than the last.
Do you agree with our list?
What do you think is WatchMojo’s most memorable top 10? And… What other WatchMojo-related Top 10 would you like to see?
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[Ron Burgundy]: You stay classy, planet Earth.