A rewind should be more than a review, but what can you expect?

YouTube Rewind was created in 2010 to recap the year’s music, memes, viral videos, and popular events. The first Rewind video was a Top-50 video which was fitting for the first soon-to-be annual YouTube series.

However, YouTube Rewind 2018 was a creation nobody seemed to enjoy as it wracked up 16 million dislikes in two weeks becoming the most disliked YouTube video ever.

After such a sting, one would hope YouTube paid attention. And they did . . . or at least it seemed like it.

Rewind 2019 acknowledges how terrible the last was, giving its viewers hope that YouTube listened to their many critiques.

Instead of making all the changes the viewers hoped for, YouTube went back to their roots and created a Top-10 video. It featured categories such as “Most Liked Videos,” “Most Viewed Video Games,” and “Most Viewed Creators.”

However, viewers still were angry because all the statistics used were nothing more than a quick Google search away—hardly the stuff of a much-anticipated release.

Some people actually felt that this year’s Rewind was worse than last just because it felt like YouTube didn’t even try.

Luckily, popular YouTuber PewDiePie collaborated with several other creators to make their own YouTube Rewind for the second year in a row.

This unofficial Rewind received more positive feedback because it was a better recap to such a memorable year featuring content like memes, relevant creators, and happy memories.

If YouTube wants to make its viewers happy, they need to read the comments under the video and take feedback from creators. Even better, collaborating with popular creators like PewDiePie will better represent the YouTube community as a whole.

You can’t expect everyone to be happy with a short 10 minute video that recaps the whole year. Everyone will have different opinions on what they consider to be the highlights.

But hey, there’s always next year.