(mouse clicks)
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
(ambient city noises)
(gasps) YouTube Rewind!
- (chuckling facetiously) - Got a little rewind action.
I know what this is.
- Awesome. - ♪ Rewind, rewind ♪
Oh, PewDiePie.
I haven't seen it yet. Oddly enough, I have not seen it.
- ♪ Turn down for what? ♪ - (crash)
(laughs)
- ♪ I'm so fancy ♪ - I wasn't in it again.
- (in video) We're not gonna start slow. - This dude-- (scoffs)
The speech guy?
The motivational speech guy's in it, and they didn't hit me up?
The production value, I have to say, is off the chain.
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Yes! Grace!
♪ I'm bringing booty back ♪
♪ It might seem crazy what I'm about to say ♪
Got some Gregory Brothers dancing.
♪ Bootay, bootay ♪
They shot this in so many locations.
(gasps) Sami!
♪ Bang-bang into the room ♪
♪ Talkin' this and that ♪
Okay, so there's lots of Asians and not me.
There are actually a lot of people who I don't know who they are.
Oh, Smosh.
(chanting) Make out. Make out.
You know how many fans are dying for that to happen?
So close, so close.
Oh, ice bucket. Hmm.
- (in video) Booyah! - Of course. Of course.
ERB comin' in hot.
Oh jeez, look at who it is!
How meta, you guys.
Oh, a little Vsauce. I like those guys.
- (in video) Good morning, John! - (in video) Oh!
This is just one big wet T-shirt contest.
There's me! (squeals)
This might be my favorite part. I think this is super-cool.
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(both chuckling) Whoa!
- Whoa, look at those guys. - Bang-ba-bang-bang!
Yay! Rhett and Link!
Jenna, of course. You gotta have Jenna in it.
She is the queen.
Oh no, I lied. Here's the queen.
Tyler!
There I am. That's me.
That's me. (laughing)
My two-second cameo.
♪ B to the A to the N to the G ♪
Go, Hannah!
- ♪ Rewind, rewind ♪ - Hey!
Yeah! Sky, I can't believe it.
It wouldn't be YouTube without Minecraft. Let's be real.
He's not even a YouTuber.
(John Oliver) YouTube Rewind 2014-- what are--
Kid President!
- (in video) My next guest-- - Freddie!
- (Freddie) Oh, hello. - Conan!
That is so cool. That's so cool.
Adam and Felix are the only two gaming people who are in it.
- ♪ Rewind, rewind, rewind ♪ - Lilly!
Superwoman for a second putting on pants without hands.
Oh, hold on. Be quiet. This is my favorite part.
Bethany's taking us into Frozen!
♪ Let it go ♪
Oh, I'm just waiting for my two-second cameo.
Well, that wasn't this year, was it? Did that qualify?
I don't know who that girl is.
You dancin', girl.
Oh, I missed my cameo! Shoot!
- ♪ Let the storm rage on ♪ - Pentatonix!
It just makes me so happy.
♪ The cold never bothered me anyway ♪
Oh, that's so cool. I love seeing this video.
Who was the girl with the backpack? Did we establish that?
Is that known? I don't know.
Oh, okay.
Oh yeah, the hamster with the little tiny meals.
I love the little guy that they have at the end.
Oh, what is this?
Oh, I love How It Should Have Ended.
I haven't seen this one.
I didn't watch all the way through the first time.
I've never seen this part.
I never saw this. I think I stopped the video.
♪ Another round of shots ♪
(in video: pained groan)
(laughing) What?
(laughs) It's kind of insulting,
it should have ended right then and there.
Oh, that's a nice little touch. Okay, I liked that.
That was pretty cool.
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(Finebros) So overall, what did you think
- of YouTube Rewind this year? - It was amazing! I loved it.
I feel like each year the YouTube Rewinds get better and better.
I think I might have liked last year's better,
but this year they did do a much better job
of incorporating YouTubers from all around the world.
I thought it was very well put together.
It was missing just some gaming people potentially.
Meh.
Ah... it's all right.
I thought this was one of the best YouTube Rewinds.
Definitely top three, yeah.
(Finebros) And how was your experience
- being in the YouTube Rewind? - It was so cool.
I remember watching the other ones
and thinking it'd be amazing to be in it one day.
And then I actually got the opportunity to do it.
I came to the production offices, like, studios.
...like, "We need to get this in one take,"
but they didn't really tell me that.
It felt really weird pretending
that there was going to be snow and frost coming out of my hands.
I just kept telling myself, "Just imagine you're Elsa right now."
It seems that we have garnered the reputation
that we need to be in tight, shiny clothes
and to do gyrating dances.
We did that last year and this year.
I hate to picture what we're going to look like next year.
Thongs.
(Finebros) So that was YouTube Rewind, and you were not in it.
You know, just something to work for for next year, man.
Why should I be? (chuckles)
Benny, I'm not cool or hip or relevant enough.
Miranda's too big for this. That's what Miranda would have said.
Okay, YouTube. You have all these random Asians
that I've never seen before in my life,
and you don't have one of your main Asians?
(Finebros) Well, this year,
they included a lot of channels from foreign countries.
There was a lot of Japanese YouTubers and European YouTubers.
Would you ever have imagined
that YouTube would grow to this point
that there would be massive YouTube stars in other countries
that are very famous, but we don't even know who they are?
No way.
I don't think anybody was really thinking
that it was going to turn into this huge, huge thing.
Eight years ago, when I started making videos,
there were, like, three people that I could name on YouTube.
And now there's 300 people that you kinda need to know.
Every day, I feel like I'll stumble across a YouTube channel
and be like, "This person has 4 million subscribers
and I've never heard of them. How is that possible?"
The global shining goal of the internet is to combine everybody
and let everyone talk with everyone
and unite and make cool stuff together.
I didn't know it would happen this quickly.
I definitely never expected
when I first started making YouTube videos
that it would be this huge.
And I don't think it's gonna slow down.
(Finebros) So now the questions we ask every year
when we cover the Rewind: what is something in your career
that is something you're most memorable or most proud of
- that happened in 2014? - My series got funded.
Starting to work on a game.
I hit a million subscribers in 2014.
A couple of weeks ago, we passed one billion views on YouTube.
Maybe we should celebrate right now internally.
I've been able to mostly stick with a three-video-a-week schedule
on my channel. I'm proud of that. I didn't do that last year.
My move to LA would be the one thing that I did this year.
I get to meet cool people.
Like, when I started my YouTube channel,
I had nothing and knew nobody.
And now people look at me as their peers.
I got a chance to interview Mr. Miyamoto,
who is basically the creator of Mario.
Uploading a video where I covered the song "Timber"
in Family Guy voices, and that video took off.
Pitbull tweeted me saying he liked the video.
And I'm like, "You're Pitbull. Hey, Pitbull."
Working with Jerry Seinfeld. I got to work with him this year.
Then I got to go on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,
which was so exciting and crazy.
I did a video where I gave my parents
a check to pay off their mortgage.
The fact that I can make a living off making YouTube videos.
And it's helped me accomplish something
that I've always wanted to do
and pay back my family for just raising me.
(Finebros) And what is a mistake that YouTube is making
that you hope they fix next year?
Am I, like, on-- okay. (chuckles)
Am I gonna get in trouble for this?
Making it easier to get to your subscription boxes.
There's always problems with the subscription box.
The subscription boxes. Just fix it finally.
I could always say the whole, like,
"They never publish to subscribers properly."
But that's been a problem since 2008.
As of late, the publishing has been quite slow.
There are times where YouTube isn't necessarily
there for their creators.
It would be nice if we had some type of way
to discover new talent.
I feel like there's no way for me to figure out who's coming up.
There's a lot of other platforms that are arising right now
that are trying to snag YouTubers.
I'm a little nervous that the fight
is gonna get a little too strong in the future.
We're very happy with the YouTube overlords.
We're not gonna ask them to change anything.
(Finebros) So finally, one year from now, what's your prediction?
Where's YouTube gonna be in a year?
It's gonna be exactly the same:
work sometimes, not work other times, and still amazing.
2015 is gonna be the year where marketing companies
and just companies in general
start to really understand what YouTube's about.
There are going to be a lot of big mainstream crossovers
starting to take place between traditional media.
Like, you even saw in that video
all the TV hosts who are in there.
I feel like that's gonna become more and more commonplace.
In one year, hopefully, it will be considered a network.
Like, we have NBC and ABC and Fox and YouTube,
and it counts and it's respected.
I would enjoy that, because right now it kinda sucks
to go up to people in the industry and say, "I'm a YouTuber."
And they're kind of like, "Okay, what does that mean?
You film yourself for five minutes a day?"
So it'll be nice to hopefully have it be respected in a year.
- (clang!) - (Finebros) Truth!
We hope?
Thank you so much for watching
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(weird voice) ♪ Goodbye ♪
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