Now matter how a lot you dislike a track from an artist and wish to present it by throwing it a thumbs down on YouTube, you’ll by no means get near how a lot the world hates this yr’s YouTube Rewind. As as we speak, the video is ficially probably the most disliked video on the platform, taking the place Justin Bieber’s “Baby.” At time publishing, YouTube Rewind has 10.three million dislikes, whereas “Baby” now has 9.eight million. In truth, the quantity dislikes on “Baby” has really decreased because the Rewind was revealed, seemingly in an effort to get Rewind to the standing “most disliked” much more shortly. And whereas it took Bieber’s video roughly eight years to rack up that detest depend, YouTube Rewind beat it in nearer to eight days.
There are rather a lot points with the video, not least all that it tried to fake like rather a lot the unhealthy moments the yr by no means occurred; occasions with PewDiePie, Shane Dawson, and Logan Paul are probably the most generally cited. Another difficulty was that it appeared to gloss over some the true creators on YouTube who've made an affect this yr, in favor advertiser-friendly celebrities and artists who YouTube can pitch to businesses.
A YouTube consultant issued the next assertion to , saying that “dethroning ‘Baby’ in dislikes wasn’t precisely our aim.”
“Honest suggestions can suck, however we're listening and we recognize how a lot folks care,” the consultant mentioned. “Trying to seize the magic YouTube in a single single video is like attempting to seize lightning in a bottle. We additionally realized that creating content material may be actually laborious and this underscores our respect and admiration for YouTube creators doing it daily. Keep the suggestions coming and perhaps we’ll launch a prime 10 listing ‘Rewind dislike’ response movies.”
See what all of the fuss is about within the video beneath.