https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTomb

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Dahhhhh 😣

For YouTube to present itself more advertiser friendly.

It was a great way of showing off YouTube talent. There were meaningful trends on YouTube for a while and these videos were a way to celebrate what went viral for the year.

That these videos are harder to make speaks a lot to how YouTube has changed as a platform.

See they're running out of disk space though. Preserving history is so much less important than 58 minute video essays about [insert any banal topic].

The only good thing YT Rewind was for was finding out what kind of boring bullshit channels normies watch.

No, that was 2016

I gotta ask, is this a common thing? I've never seen any of that. Not that I don't believe it exists, but I have a hard time believing it's among the most popular topics.

Why have them? What are they?

Why? They have a monopoly. They do whatever the fuck they want.

I assumed it’s probably due to some creators becoming, or later being discovered as, “problematic” and/or some sort of brand risk. It would look more strange to unlist a few of them, so better to unlist all of them.

never been happier to have only followed the grace, hannah, mamrie, tyler, hank, john, and dan + phil youtuber scene.

I think unlisted means they just won’t appear in search/recommended, but can still be viewed if you link directly to them

"Unlisted" means you can't find any of them via search or on the creator's page. But if you still have the URL, you can view them directly

Which includes public playlists other people have created

Looks like they all eventually became mr beast

Fucken Markiplier is on like half of them. Nothing against the guy just kinda funny that he's been notable for so long, also some of those did not age well.

Just preserved youtube history and culture.

The Weezer pork and beans video was actually fucking sweet

So they invite a select group of artists from the platform who made big gains that year to be a part of something like a YouTube holiday special.

The problem with it is corporate is so out of touch that in 2018 they invited mid-controversy Will Smith and a bunch of K-Pop stars to do the video, almost plays like their target audience is barely pubescent boys and girls. It became less about the community and more about promoting content for monetary purposes.

The YouTube Rewind videos are in the list of the most disliked videos of all time, with the 2018 Rewind being at 20 Million dislikes, surpassing "Baby Shark Dance" at just under 15 Million and "Justin Beiber - Baby" at 12 Million.

It's where they take every video uploaded to YouTube that year and play all of them backwards.

They were a video published and produced by Youtube themselves, showing the most popular videos on the platform, making jokes, etc. It's the same video for everyone. It's not like the "rewinds" some companies do showing your activity for the year.

Here is 2013( I think this was the best one).

Many moons ago, youtube partnered with the biggest content creators on there to make a video capturing what was trending throughout the year

Probably like Spotify wrapped but even dumber.