PewDiePie explains the \u201cproblem\u201d with YouTube Rewind 2019 YouTube Rewind 2019 attempted to mitigate the outrage surrounding last year\u2019s project by creating a series of Top 10 lists, but despite this change, fans are still upset with the video \u2013 a phenomenon that PewDiePie explained a week later. Although YouTube acknowledged the backlash from Rewind 2018 in their latest year-end video, the community at large is unimpressed with the project, which has garnered an impressive seven million dislikes at the time of writing. Many complained that the platform put in considerably less effort with Rewind 2019, with top names like Jake Paul calling the wrap-up a \u201cterrible music video\u201d that failed to highlight some of the year\u2019s biggest moments. YouTube rewind was awful. Basically a top 10 video on steroids but we learned nothing about those videos if we hadn\u2019t seen them. It was basically a terrible music video? idea: YouTube should bring in and meet with creators every year to help them come up with the rewind\u2026 \u2014 Jake Paul (@jakepaul) December 6, 2019 YouTube king Felix \u201cPewDiePie\u201d Kjellberg finally published his thoughts on the subject in a video on December 11, where he revealed that he\u2019d initially agreed with YouTube\u2019s efforts to avoid the \u201cpolitics\u201d of the year with viewer-led statistics. \u201cWhen I saw it, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, that makes sense, actually. This way, they avoid everyone complaining about it because it\u2019s just a list.\u2019\u201d However, Kjellberg likewise understood the outrage around Rewind, calling it \u201cboring\u201d and a \u201cWatchMojo video\u201d that \u201cbackfired\u201d when trying to step back from what had become what he dubbed an \u201cadvertising reel\u201d for YouTube\u2019s most vanilla content. \u201cThe problem is, along the way, these YouTube Rewind videos became more and more of an advertising reel,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt made it so that we can only show the top friendliest creators\u2026 and it became preachy and it became cringey.\u201d (Subject begins at 9:48 for mobile readers) That\u2019s not all: he likewise took issue with Rewind 2019 for failing to tribute late YouTuber Desmond \u201cEtika\u201d Amofah, who passed away after going missing in late June. \u201cHe definitely deserves to be recognized in some way,\u201d PewDiePie continued. \u201cI understand that it doesn\u2019t really fit in this format, but they should have made space for it, in my opinion.\u201d PewDiePie\u2019s sentiments echo that of many of Etika\u2019s fans and friends, who similarly called out the platform for not mentioning the YouTuber in their project \u2013 the latest of several Rewinds that have been met with contention from their user base, at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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