Trivia / YouTube Rewind

• Creator Backlash: As the years have gone by, more reports of this have come out from creators:
  • Emma Blackery posted a video after the 2017 Rewind, detailing the past two years of her experiences with the Rewinds and why she would say no if asked for 2018. For 2017, she ended up having to spend an entire day shooting for the video, being covered in slime and having her hair damaged from the slime for 2 weeks, culminating in a shot so short that it qualified as a literal Freeze-Frame Bonus. She was understandably upset at this.
  • Lachlan, a Fortnite gamer, was notably promised a "special role" in the 2018 Rewind by YouTube. He ended up filming for 8-10 hours only for his two lines to get cut and his face getting blurred out in his one scene. He would lament this on his Twitter.
  • Luisito Comunica, one of the few Latin American YouTubers^note Along with Jukilop (JD Pantoja and Kimberly Loayza), Pautips, Los Polinesios, julioprofe and Ami Rodríguez in the 2018 Rewind, also posted a video reacting to said Rewind. Like with Emma Blackery and Lachlan, he spent an entire day shooting for the video only to appear in a couple of shots. While seemingly more understanding of his role getting cut than the others mentioned, through the video it's clear that he's just as puzzled by certain decisions in the video as many people who reacted negatively to it were, at one point openly wondering why Liza Koshy is so prominently featured in the video despite the fact that her channel was inactive for most of the year.
  • Two months after Rewind 2018 was posted, Susan Wojcicki issued a statement outright admitting that the video didn't accurately show the year's key moments, nor did it show YouTube's culture accurately. She went on to say that even her own kids found it cringey and promised that they would do better for 2019.
  • Rebecca Parham stated to not only work on the video for two weeks, without pay, she also was had her video about YouTube Rewind demonetized, said video just directing her viewers to the Rewind to watch, feeling "very betrayed."
  • If Vanessa and Veronica's reaction is to go by with their reactions to Rewind 2018 in FBE as they show their part in that video;
    Both: NOOOOO.
• Doing It for the Art: The Rewinds are not monetized on the site, despite the amount of money going into their production.
• What Could Have Been:
  • There have been many instances where creators are invited to participate in the rewinds, only to not make it in for a variety of reasons. Notable examples include Nigahiga (2015), Jacksepticeye (2017), and Matthias (2017).
    • According to a now-deleted comment by Game Theory, there was supposed to be a reference to the "AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA!" meme at the end of YouTube Rewind 2015, yet the producers didn't have time to film it.
    • Carrie Hope Fletcher was instructed to act like an "American high school head of the cheerleaders" during her close up in Rewind 2014, but said close up was cut from the final video.
    • Rewind 2016 had a whole segment filmed where Spanish speaking YouTubers (such as Sebastian Villalobos, YosStop and enchufetv) dance to "My Boo" by Ghost Town DJ's at a market (the same one that Yuya wanders through near the start of the video), but the entire scene was cut, aside from a reference to it shown as the Rewind ends. However, the same YouTubers in this segment, also appear during the segment which references the video for "Sorry" by Justin Bieber and "My Boo" is still used, but in a different scene, with different YouTubers.
    • Lachlan, a Fortnite gamer, was going to have a larger role in the 2018 Rewind. However, most of his content ended up getting cut from the final product.
  • Marques Brownlee has stated that the Fortnite Bus scene of Rewind 2018 originally had a longer introduction, and would have focused on the YouTubers realizing where they are and that they have been magically placed there. The actual Rewind simply shows them appearing on the bus, and then jumping after Ninja is introduced.
  • YouTube Rewind 2020 most likely would've happened if it weren't for the many struggles around the world during that year, most notably the COVID-19 Pandemic. Due to the nature of the year as well as YouTube's continued struggle with the Adpocalypse and demonetization, not to mention the lackluster reception to 2019's Rewind, they chose to sit it out. They then decided the following year to discontinue the series outright.
• Writer Revolt: JaidenAnimations' segment in the 2018 Rewind snuck in PewDiePie's chair and references to other memes because she (correctly) suspected that they wouldn't be included elsewhere in the video.

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