YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind

"YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind" is a YouTube video by the official YouTube channel. It was uploaded on December 6, 2018, as the ninth video of the YouTube Rewind series.

Why It's Wretched

 * 1) Fortnite is one of the most recurring themes in the whole video. While Fortnite was popular in 2018, it wasn't as popular when this video was made as it was only that popular earlier in the year.
 * 2) Wretched special effects and CGI. It should be noted that horrible animations like Bump Classique had better animation than this.
 * 3) Awful acting. For example, the Will Smith part had an unnatural "Yaaah!" and a "Marques Brownlee" pronounced so bad that the "marques" sounded like "mark ass".
 * 4) *Speaking of Marques, when he was falling from the battle bus, his scream sounded really fake.
 * 5) Horrible and cringy dialogue. For example, The Merrell Twins said "There's one thing that this video needs.. K-Pop!
 * 6) Speaking of K-Pop, it was shoehorned without crediting the artists. For example, the song Idol by BTS was used and referenced, but they didn't credit them. This, along with the prior controversy of views removed from that video, caused a lot of backlash from the K-Pop fanbase.
 * 7) Most of the YouTubers in this video speak a different language. Thankfully, they added subtitles.
 * 8) One scene indicated a woman being married to bongo cat, which makes no sense at all.
 * 9) Gallop, who is a dog, has a daydream of getting cookies and dessert, which in reality, can poison him (depending on the ingredients), and could possibly cause death!
 * 10) It even uses annoying memes such as the yodeling kid, the infamous "I Love It" music video, and the Dame Tu Cosita dance. YouTube, if you're gonna make your own site "kid-friendly," why did you add the Dame Tu Cosita (which means "give me your little thing") dance in the first place?
 * 11) Even good YouTubers such as TheOdd1sOut are in this. Hell, even Lucas the Spider is in this!
 * 12) There's a scene where it relies too much on politics. Basically, they break the pace of the video to talk about how minorities, women, single mothers and such have earned more recognition, how "it takes a lot of bravery to be vulnerable" (which means it takes the courage to be weak, wow) and how "proud they are of their community". Not to mention, this scene could be related to the BetterHelp controversy. The worst part about it that it lasts two minutes out of eight! Why bring up politics in YouTube Rewind, let alone do so for a fourth of the video?
 * 13) *After that, the part in which they say that "they should read the comments" lists unnamed comments which suggest things like the "I Love It" video, more Fortnite (there's literally a comment which says "Fortnite Fortnite Fortnite Fortnite and some other things"), soccer (though that was excusable), the Dame Tu Cosita dance, ASMR (even though it was more relevant in 2017) and Baby Shark. The community itself never asked for any of these things, which shows that they are disconnected with them.
 * 14) They try too hard to appease the advertisers with ad-friendly content.
 * 15) The cast is the least memorable and least representative of YouTube ever. From people more known outside of YouTube than inside it like Ninja (submits stream highlights but he's more known as a Twitch streamer than a YouTuber), Will Smith (submits vlogs but most know him for his acting career than his YouTube channel), talk show hosts, etc... to irrelevant YouTubers to Lele Pons.
 * 16) Lack of actually important trends like the KSI vs. Logan Paul boxing match and PewDiePie vs. T-Series.
 * 17) There was a live chat because this video was a premiere, but it was restricted to only the people who collaborated in the video and not to the general audience.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The animators' part was way better than in other Rewinds, they actually gave them protagonism, despite the platform being animator-friendly due to the algorithm.
 * 2) Jaiden Animations sneaked PewDiePie references on the video with her animation part, like the "Can you do this?" with the $399 chair.
 * 3) They actually referenced Elon Musk.

Trivia

 * This article was nominated in the January 2019 background of the now-deleted Atrocious YouTubers Wiki.