YouTube changes format for year-in-review Rewind 2019

YouTube Rewind, a video platform’s year-in-review, arrived in a mint format on Thursday after a swell of disastrous reviews in 2018.

That year’s video — which featured a digression by Will Smith and a aphorism “Everyone Controls Rewind” — was widely mocked and eventually gained 17 million downvotes, creation it a many disliked video in a site’s history. 

This time, instead of an strange prolongation regulating some of its most famous users, YouTube simply combined a collage of 2019’s many renouned content. 

“In 2018, we done something we didn’t like,” calm during a commencement of Rewind 2019 reads. “So in 2019, let’s see what we DID like. Because you’re improved during this than we are.”

The examination breaks down a most-liked creator, music, dance and beauty videos; a most-viewed games and creators; and a tip dermatitis creators. 

Creators James Charles, Shane Dawson, Jimmy (MrBeast) Donaldson and Felix (PewDiePie) Kjellberg dominated a lists — each alighting in mixed categories — reflecting a feuds and controversies that mostly ruled YouTube in 2019. 

Charles had a most-liked beauty video for his Makeup Tutorial en Español, itself a response to a 20-year-old model’s ongoing argument with fellow beauty vlogger Tati Westbrook. 

Donaldson’s Make This Video The Most Liked Video On Youtube did accurately that, earning a No. 1 spot for creator videos. YouTube also briefly featured his TeamTrees initiative — a fundraising try to plant 20 million trees — something Donaldson’s fans had demanded for weeks leading adult to Rewind 2019. 

Dawson’s documentary series The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star, about a associate YouTuber, was a second most-liked beauty video, while a Star video that featured Dawson was a fourth many viewed.

This year also noted a lapse of Kjellberg’s PewDiePie channel in a Rewind series. Despite his large popularity, he’s been absent from the last dual Rewinds amid debate over anti-Semitic imagery in his videos and his recognition with alt-right groups . 

But in 2019 Kjellberg was listed as YouTube’s most-viewed creator, and had its second most-viewed video, in that he married his longtime girlfriend. 

Among Canadians in this year’s Rewind, Shawn Mendes’ partnership with Camila Cabello for their song Señorita was a most-liked song video of a year. Cosplayer Azra (AzzyLand) Bajrami was a tenth most-viewed creator, and rapper-singer Snow had a eighth most-liked song video for his partnership with Daddy Yankee on Con Calma.

Though a difficulty was not featured in a Rewind video, Con Calma was also a most-viewed song video, YouTube said. 

Responses to Rewind 2019 have been mostly negative. By early Thursday dusk it had about one million dislikes, roughly double a likes, with some criticizing its lack of approach impasse from YouTubers — closer to a “top ten” ranking than a elaborately choreographed constructions they have come to expect. 

YouTube generated a lists regulating information from early November, incompatible geo-restricted calm and calm from channels such as media companies. 

The new format was an try to improved simulate how audiences use a site, according to the head of a enlightenment and trends team. 

Last year’s Rewind “didn’t authentically paint their YouTube knowledge or YouTube in general,” Kevin Allocca told a record news site a Verge.

“The preference this year is to try to indeed paint that directly and as accurate as probable with a things that people unequivocally like.”

Article source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/youtube-rewind-2019-1.5385213?cmp=rss