YouTube Mercifully Kills Annual 'Rewind' Video
YouTube has confirmed that the YouTube Rewind video, which YouTube had put out annually its inception in order to celebrate the top trends and creators of the platform, will never happen again.
In an exclusive report from Tubefilter, YouTube acknowledged that the Rewind videos put out by creators makes an "official" YouTube Rewind unnecessary.
"Since Rewind started in 2011, we have seen creators from MrBeast [54 million views], elrubiusOMG, and Slayy Point, to so many more, create their own end-of-year videos, uniquely capturing the year from each of their perspectives," said YouTube. YouTube will not fund any creator's Rewind video but will promote such videos on their social channels.
While intended to be a celebration of creators and trends on the platform, the Rewind video was more often an annual firestorm of controversy, as it would inevitably omit key creators or a key trend. It didn't help that it was often the source of cringe overload, particularly its 2018 iteration, which looked incredibly expensive yet became the most disliked video on all of YouTube.
Following the disastrous video, YouTube put out a far-cheaper (and less-interesting) video-listicle style in 2019 and forewent a Rewind altogether in 2020 due to how much that year, in a word, sucked.
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clean76
I think it made a lot of sense back in 2011, not so much after that. No big trends have come directly from youtube for a long time.
Nyazilla
And in The End
The Hate you take
Is equal to
The Hate you make
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I'm gonna miss the parodies and memes
Lizzardtong
while the idea sounded nice in the early times, i won't miss it, since youtube became a huge business the rewinds have become a huge cooperate circle-jerk. it doesn't celebrate trends, it celebrates the moneymakers of the platform. which explains why certain trends didn't appear, cooperate must have seen it as "bad for business"
TerribleTrike
dorukayhan
Ah, here's our token good decision for the year.
A Concerned Rifleman
Ladies and Gentlemen, we gottem.
Gone
Lonefirebearer
ozen
hope vtubers are next
Lonefirebearer
Better to be a V-Tuber than an E-THOT. (AKA, a T for Teen Ho.)