YouTube Rewind (stylized as YouTube ЯEWIND) was an annual year-in-review web series that was produced by YouTube and Portal A Interactive from 2010 to 2019. The videos were summaries of each year's , events, trends, and music. The series' annual installments were uploaded onto YouTube's official channel.
The series' 2018 and 2019 installments ( and ) were received poorly, with the former becoming the most-disliked video of all time on the platform. YouTube opted to not produce a Rewind video in 2020, before announcing the series' cancellation the following year.
The video starts with the text "Nothing is more powerful than a video whose time has come"; the final two words change to "is 2012.", with an accompanying string instrument sound that resembled the musical introduction to Kony 2012, a viral video documentary film aired earlier that year.
What Does 2013 Say? was dedicated to fellow YouTuber Talia Castellano, who died on July 16, five months prior to the release of the video.
Everyone Controls Rewind incorporated user-comment suggestions as a part of the video, although many viewers stated that the trends that the video included (such as Fortnite and K-pop) were unpopular with the majority of the community, calling YouTube "out of touch" with its viewers and their interests. Julia Alexander, writing for The Verge, suggested that YouTube had intentionally left out the biggest moments on the platform in 2018 in an attempt to appease worried advertisers over controversies that had plagued the platform over the past two years: "it's ... increasingly apparent, however, that YouTube is trying to sell a culture that's different from the one millions of people come to the platform for, and that's getting harder for both creators and fans to swallow". Meira Gebel of Business Insider shared a similar sentiment, saying that "The video appears to be an attempt for the company to keep advertisers on its side following a rather rocky 2018." In a newsletter, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki spoke on the poor reception of the 2018 video and mentioned that "even my kids called it 'cringey'."
Everyone Controls Rewind was panned by the YouTube community, surpassing the music video for "Baby" by Justin Bieber to become the most-disliked YouTube video of all time. It subsequently became the first YouTube video to receive over ten million dislikes and accumulated over 20 million dislikes by late 2021, when YouTube disabled dislikes from being publicly viewable.
On October 7, 2021, YouTube announced that Rewind would be discontinued, expressing hope that its creators would fill in the gap. Instead, a 24-hour interactive livestream titled Escape2021 was broadcast on December 16 as a replacement, including a live performance by BTS on Minecraft produced by the Noxcrew and also featuring Minecraft YouTubers Dream, GeorgeNotFound, Aphmau, PrestonPlayz, BriannaPlayz, and BeckBroJack. There has not been an official YouTube end-of-year event or video since then.
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