It's time to stop Youtube Rewind!
Back when Youtube Rewind started, it was beloved by all.
The like ratio was awesome
and it was like this beautiful, wholesome thing that everyone loved.
And now, the new one has WAY more dislikes than likes
and everyone kind of unanimously agrees that it's a total cringe fest. (#2 most disliked video ever)
And so, I want to watch the new one
And, I want to go back to 2013, which was one of the most cherished and most LIKED Youtube Rewinds.
And see where has Youtube changed its ways and why do many people seem to be disliking where Youtube's going with these Rewinds.
For the first time, unironically, I say this
*notification sound*
YAaauuHHuuHHHHHH
It's Rewind time!
You know, if I control Rewind...
I would want...
F O R T N I T E
and Marcques Brownlee
A lot of people have been clowning on Will Smith here,
but I have to say, this is one of the best performances of his entire career because
this--these are two
of the biggest lies I could possibly imagine thinking
YOOoOOoOOoO
Fortnite!
I love Fortnite!
And I watch Youtube all the time
And why is he at the Grand Canyon? Is he ready to jump?
Somebody should talk him down.
Maybe he's seen Youtube Rewind and he's ready to jump.
Good point
Is this what you wanted?
You know who I would have asked for?
Quit horsing around!
Play me some of that jumping music?
So Ninja is definitely a huge Youtuber but
he plays on Twitch
And all they do is upload clips from Twitch on Youtube
I find that interesting
He's not really--
he's not--
I mean he is, but he's not
(uncopyrighted music)
(Not even a tHAnk yoU?!?)
(uncopyrighted music)
So guys
apparently...
we control Rewind this year.
Y'all, we can do whatever we want
What do we do?
This video is lacking an important aspect, thus I would like to implement it into this video
Pop music sang in a unfathomable language that has captured the attention of people worldwide. Poor Casey
(laughs)
Poor Casey dude he looks like a--
he looks like he's trying to
smash.
They put him next to these little twins
and he's screaming K-POP with them.
I don't think Casey cares about K-POP.
Pop music sang in a unfathomable language that has captured the attention of people worldwide. Poor Casey
K-pop! Right guys? (No, thank you)
That's why it's always tough when you commit to do these Rewinds cause they'll put you...
they'll put you next to a couple little twins screaming K-POP and you don't even know what's what
Pop music sang in a unfathomable language that has captured the attention of people worldwide. Poor Casey
This joke is getting old. I swear I'll stop.
K-POP!
end me pls
Why is Casey Mr. K-POP?
How did he end up as Mr. K-POP?
Casey, what's going on here?
i need bleach
wtf
CASEY'S LIKE, K-POP GODZILLA
Why is Casey K-POP Godzilla?
Alright
so we all agree, that if we could do Youtube Rewind as anything it would be
K-POP!
It would be
K-POP!
YEAH
Free PUBG and Pop music sung in Korean
(more uncopyrighted music)
o h n o
Trevor Noah flossing is what we all...
KNEW would be here but dreaded this moment.
You know those videos that play for ten hours on Youtube? I want ten hours of Trevor Noah flossing.
please reevaluate your life choices and click away if you have to
(music starts to fade)
(wind howling noises starts increasing in volume)
(thunder)
(music)
no? ok your loss
Woah huh oh oh
I didn't expect one of those!
Hoo hoo hoo hoo!
What is he, dancing like a village idiot?
Wha--is John Oliver calling himself a loser?
What is this? Is this a Fortnite dance?
Oh no!
It is a F o r t n i t e dance!
(emotional smack)
Oh I just realized John Oliver's doing a Fortnite dance
(pained groan)
(music)
Oh that's so embarrassing for him that they actually got him to do that
John you shouldn't have done it
Now we're going to have to get John Oliver for 10 hours doing that video
(music)
(group singing In My Feelings incoherently and weakly)
(silence)
You know it's
when the people in Youtube Rewind realize that it's become so cringey
I know they're making a joke but they're all like
Oof...
Eesh... We better change course on this quick.
Wait wait wait hold on hold on
You know who really needs to be in this Rewind video?(Not you, for sure)
Everyone who managed to do something bigger than themselves this year(MrBeast?)
Oh Lilly Singh.
I remember last year she gave a virgin birth!
She had a miscarriage basically
What a--was--what it seemed...
Her water broke?
I don't know.
Maybe the metaphor was that "Youtube is Lilly Singh's miscarriage"-Ethan,2018
Huh
That is beautiful and poetic
Hold on hold on
You know who really needs to be in this Rewind video?
Do you know who really needs to be in this Youtube Rewind video?
Shane Dawson, who had one of the most explosive years on Youtube ever
Jontron, Flex Tape had 35 million views
That's a viral video for original content
We almost never see that on this platform
How 'bout Pewdiepie who continues to crush, crush, crush and elevate the game of what is possible on Youtube
How about KSI vs. Logan Paul, one of the biggest matches
in new media history that rivals some of the biggest
matches that we've seen in traditional media
How about MrBeast's meteoric rise and all the incredible videos he's made
How about Joji? Filthy Frank, one of our beloved creators making a very successful transition in music
That's what she was going to say, I think
You know who really needs to be in this Rewind video?
Everyone who managed to do something bigger than themselves this year
Everyone who managed to do something bigger than themselves
Whatever that means
Oh I know what she was going to say
We need an emotional tag
We need a Youtube Rewind 2018 (EMOTIONAL)
tag cause that's where this is going
Who found a way to help the causes that mattered the most
To everyone... who proved it's okay to talk about mental health this year
And showing their viewers that... it's okay to go through tough times like that
It takes a lot of bravery to be that vulnerable and I am so proud of this community
I think this year's Rewind should celebrate the fierce, fabulous and empowering art of drag.
I want to see all of your be your own kind of beautiful
And to those people who have raised money in the field of education.
And also give a moment to Asian representation in entertainment this year
Major strides were made.
And the people who put aside their differences
Yeah, and created something really special
Here's to ALL women in 2018 finding their voices
It's nice seeing how women grew and were empowered.
Can we give a moment to working moms?
We're forgetting something
K-POP!
Oh, sorry
I saw Casey again and I had a flashback.
We're fogetting something
I think...
we should read the comments.
The fact that you're saying
let's read the comments
shows, alone, how disconnected you are
because...
bro
my response when I heard--
I'm so winded it's embarrassing
my response when I heard you say read the comments was like WOAH
This is about to get X-rated, let's not read the comments
I think if anything Youtube Rewind should be like
and together let's all agree
to stop reading Youtube comments
(Ethan reading)
Oh that's why they got him
because of this comment, this random comment
with no name and zero likes
this guy that doesn't have a profile picture
Ohhh that's why they got Will Smith in
Oh they were taking suggestions, that's why
they weren't going to look at the top comment with 200,000 likes
It says
(Ethan reading)
You know what I think the people want for Youtube Rewind?
Alright, let's erase 2018 Rewind from our mind
let's go back to 2013
one of the most beloved and most
liked Youtube Rewinds of all time
and compare
what is different?
Why did everyone hate the new one
but loved this one?
Let's watch
2013...
let's do this
So right away you're going to notice that
the person who opens is this beloved meme
NOT Will Smith, NOT mainstream media
but president kid or Obama kid
Right?
This--this is so much more wholesome
like no--like really nobody wants to see Will Smith
We want to see new media, we want to see one of us
And I think--immediately--
a much more wholesome opening
and trying to be something you're not
which is what the whole--the whole--you know, Will Smith
like lying about liking Fortnite was.
So here we have Kassem G
now Kassem G had a super popular series called
Going Deep for interviewing porn stars
Okay?
So here they are putting someone out there
who's raunchy and creative and more mature
and he's--and he's one of the main char--focuses
of this Youtube Rewind
and so
I do think that they were more
adventurous and more daring and more creative
and more representative, right
If they ignored KassemG back then everyone would have been like what the hell
because he's raunchy, but they kept him in
(music)
OKAY WOAH
WOAH
Do you guys know what you're seeing?
This is Alison Gold Chinese food reference
Patrice Wilson
Wow that's weird as hell dude!
Woah, that close up makes me really uncomfortable
This is the video Patrice Wilson made with Alison Gold where he turned her into Chinese food and ate her
and creeped on her with a panda outfit
and they put that in!
WOAH DUDE, WOAH!
That is insane!
They were fearless.
Holy shit.
Patrice Wilson made a video with Alison Gold where she's bare-- almost naked in a prison
and sacrifices her body over an orgy
Alison Gold... WOW
So here they've got a late night guy but I have to say it's tasteful
and it doesn't end it doesn't anger me because it emphasizes that he is peripheral
Okay, he's not the main star
There's Youtubers watching him on a screen in the desert
and they're having fun with the song
he's with The Roots, his band
but, the fact that it's on a screen is kind of
int--is interesting thing of being like
Hey, they're here but they're kind of up there
they're not--it's not like
HEY I'm Will smith and I love Fortnite
AH HOOOOOO
This is much better
This is much more tasteful
Although, I will say it could be a little better if I could get them all
just to do this for a minute
(Demonic ritual dancing)
If I could just get them all
just to do this for a moment I think that it would
step it up by a lot
They gave a main part to the prancercise lady
the living legend the living meme
she gets a main part
and THAT is what I'm talking about
Dude, prancercise lady levitating, ascending to the heavens
because she has become
beyond a living meme, she has become an immortal meme
and Youtube is recognizing that... wow
What a moment in--what a moment
I mean, wow.
And of course, the most potent and powerful shot of all
the foreshadowing, the biblical foreshadowing even
of PewDiePie(Sub 2 pewds)
coming to bury the whole platform
as the... impending adpocalypse would come and change everything
(laughs)
That's fucking awesome I have to, dude, I love this shot so much
of Felix burying the platform, ugh, so funny
I love you Felix but that's hilarious
and angrily walking off
noticeably more wholesome
less corporate, less mainstream Hollywood,
and more representative of creators and putting creators first
and less afraid to be taking like, risks for.. for pizza's sake
I feel like they represent two very different worlds
One, in 2013, was still, Youtube, was a very wholesome place
before the adpocolypse
and Youtube felt less restrained, they could show the real Youtubers and have a real representative
expression of what Youtube was and what it was like to
be on Youtube and to be a Youtuber
But here fast forward to 2018
Youtube continues to pander to advertisers
that hold them ransom
they continue to keep trying to be more Hollywood
acting as if Will Smith is the face of Youtube, which is just so insulting to everybody
and so disingenuous
and... refusing to acknowledge anybody that is even slightly raunchy
And so, there's becoming with--every year--a bigger and bigger pull
of a disconnect between Youtube and consumers of Youtube
and this year, really, really showed badly
So I do think that it may be
Wow, Ethan, great moves, keep it up, proud of you.