YouTube’sRewind 2018video (above) is well on its way to becoming the most-disliked video in the streaming site’s history.
The recap video features some of thebiggest YouTubersof the last 12 months (oh, and Will Smith, too), and has been released by YouTube every year since 2010. But this year’s effort seems to have rubbed people up the wrong way.
At the time of writing, 7.9 million people have hit the dislike button onYouTube Rewind 2018.That’s just 2 million short of the most-disliked video on the platform, Justin Bieber’s 2010 hit,Baby.
Considering Bieber’s video has taken eight years to reach that many dislikes, andRewindhas takenjust four days, it seems like a safe bet that in the next week or two, YouTube will take the crown for the most-disliked video. On YouTube.
So what exactly is it that has so riled the global YouTube community? Well, looking through the video’s enormous number of comments, it seems to be just about everything you may think of.
For starters, some viewers were clearly put off by the video’s cringeworthy skits that feature many of the year’s most popular YouTubers.
One wrote, “If YouTube was really like this, I would never visit this site,” while another said: “It is unbelievable how disconnected YouTube has become with their audience.” Someone else wrote simply: “I feel uncomfortable.”
PewDiePie has already posted a video offering his own unique take on YouTube’sRewind 2018video, ridiculing its overuse of hitvideo gameFortniteand saying how it lacked what he thought of as YouTube personalities.
“I remember whenRewindwas something that seemed like an homage to the creators … it was something cool to be part of,” PewDiePie said, adding that he was glad he wasn’t in it because it was just too cheesy. For next year’sRewind,if YouTube is brave enough to post such a video, he suggested featuring only up-and-coming creators instead of the same old faces.
The comments section of YouTube’sRewind 2018video wasn’t all bad, though. One sympathetic soul managed to muster enough enthusiasm for a slightly more positive analysis, saying: “I believe that this video was okay in some parts.” But at the time of writing, only two people had liked that particular comment.
