That’s a bit sad
They were kinda little time capsules of various corners of YouTube adjacent internet culture over time
The only good thing YT Rewind was for was finding out what kind of boring bullshit channels normies watch.
That sounds a bit elitist tbh
Yeah all you gotta do is open it in a private browsing window and see the stream of aI nonsense to know what most morons are watching, or at least clicking.
You sound like you subscribed to a lot of boring people
sEcReT iNtErNeT cLuBhOuSe
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].
Unlisting just means they’re not shown in searches, the video is still available, so storage has nothing to do with it
Yeah. I saw that after I wrote my comment.
Babe you’ve never unlisted your old (cringe) Minecraft tutorials. What a childhood lol
Lol I have actually do have some unlisted videos, I just forgot what that meant until I was reminded
Add another thing to the Google Graveyard ig.
Neat.
I’m sorry Will, looks like it’s no longer rewind time 😞
Dahhhhh 😣
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.
To be clear: This is speculation based on zero information 🙃. Just a total guess based on how things tend to go between internet culture and corporations. I’m probably wrong. It would be cool if YouTube would communicate things like this.
It’s unfortunate to see such cultural history hidden away. Though, tbh, this is probably the most that I’ve ever thought about YouTube Rewind, and I haven’t thought about it in many years.
Why?
Why have them? What are they?
Marketing videos, mostly. Ostensibly they’re original videos showcasing some of the talent and content from the previous year. The last couple of years have been particularly bland, though, as I understand it.
They shouldn’t exist because you don’t know what they are?
Maybe they just don’t know and are asking for community context.
How os asking what they are the same as saying they shouldn’t exist?
I’m so tired of all the bad faith bs on this site.
Maybe it was my own misunderstanding.
Why have them?
If this doesn’t mean, “why should they even exist?” what was it that you meant here? Because that’s what you ask first, before you ask what they are.
I took “why have them?” to mean “what is their purpose?”
That is what I meant. Thank you
Why? They have a monopoly. They do whatever the fuck they want.
But why do they want to do that, is the question
In the past the videos were always shit and people would thus shit on them in the comments/ratings, so it might be to hide how much shittier it’s getting. For example if there is so much generated content that it would take up a chunk of the video, or it might even be that they’ve fired the talent who normally create the rewinds and replaced them with AI, which would be fairly obvious to detect if it was used for this kind of thing because it probably would do a shit job. *If they are not producing them anymore.
I don’t know what YouTube Rewinds are, but are these them? I seem to be able to view them.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTASUq6isfvyOXnYzM8Jgc28tET8PMc4
I think unlisted means they just won’t appear in search/recommended, but can still be viewed if you link directly to them
Oh… maybe done so the new one is the only result? That makes this a hell if a lot less of an issue.
Rewinds haven’t been produced in like a decade
Half a decade *
I wanted to be right about rewind being dead to badly I guess.
That’s because pewdiepie had to make a real one after the first flop and it ruined their motivation.
The image OP posted explicitly shows that’s not true.
Okay so half decade forgive my memory.
Point stands, there are no new ones.
Wlep there it is…
I mean I’m still not touching it with a 10 foot pole featuring me beast, but hey, YouTube do YouTube.
Maybe ones coming today or tomorrow…?
Your point is yet to stand, there could be a very valid reason it just changed today.
They stopped making them because everyone laughed at the last one with will smith.
If one is coming, it’s going to be AI slop. But I doubt it.
In the image there’s 2019 mate.
I’m off by 4 years, and I’m ony phone so I could t both see the picture and reply. Sue me.
“oh no”
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.
To this day I still have no idea what it is, and I don’t wanna bother looking it up.
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.
That was just about the time they got rid of public downvotes, unsurprisingly
You’re the best! Thank you.
It’s where they take every video uploaded to YouTube that year and play all of them backwards.
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I’ve been on YouTube from pretty much the start and have never seen a Rewind. Do only Americans get them?
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).
YouTube whats?
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.
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