legend

Smosh will forever be GOAT

you got good content bro that's why you're in the thumbnail

Lol imagine

what stopped you?

That is such a great idea!

Bruh

but first they gottta get their shit together and fix monetization and dislikes and etc

They already have that for yt music, so they definitely could! I'd be super down for that

@@sage8339 wait thats a feature there?

Best part of rewinds were the animators fr

Exactly what made youtube rewinds good

still great tho the previous version was better, they reuploaded it iirc. or maybe that was 2013 but i think it was 2014

Yeah. Thats my thoughts with the early rewinds. 2014 was also my first one

I remember in 2015 literally showing my mom my favorite KZfaqrs like "look mom that guy HolaSoyGerman I showed you last week is famous!"

I mean 2013 wasn’t a bad year either. That’s when Pewdiepie got the respect he deserved from KZfaq. Then a few years later, KZfaq dropped him hard

2017 was truly the start of the end

@@beatm6948 2015 was already dropping hints at where youtubes focus was going

2012 will forever be unbeatable

2013 was goated 2014 was the beginning of the end

@@user-eq8vz7km6y no thank you

I think the fall started in 2015 personally, a lot less energy than the others, picked back up in 2016, then bombed in 2017. ngl tho, I thought he was reviewing the rewinds and when he put 2018 in good year, I almost threw my iPad

Yeah the crazy thing about that is that Lud is wrong and stupid and dumb and 2013 was actually banging and he's wrong and an idiot for saying otherwise

@@fredfondler7281 Yeah, it kinda feels like he started with the intent of reviewing the rewinds, then switched to what he ended with because of those rankings.

@@fredfondler7281 13 and 14 were peak rewinds imo. I have a lot of good memories of watching them over and over.

SAME because of Mark and Mat i was so into FNAF

@@user-cn8di1qr9h no

@@user-cn8di1qr9h no

@@user-cn8di1qr9h literally, your mom 🚶🏻

why

That's fair, I kinda agree. I can see it

o7

He can still have chat on screen idk why he doesn't

@@dianasaur2442 probably cuz it doesn't look the same or is able to be on screen the same way or something looks bad, they kinda have the only way that ppl fw now with the see through black behind the og twitch chating don't so u can read it clearly but still see full screen

@@firsttofi8471 the extension came out today so maybe he can make it look like twitch chat again

@@firsttofi8471 chat is still see through on KZfaq, if it works it works in my opinion but I get that people got attached to the twitch aesthetic.

It's the same for so many people as well lol. Starting around 2013, the site got so big you could be in one part of the community and never watch stuff from another part. The gaming, vlog, beauty communities etc. were all super insulated.

Lol 😂

I started watch KZfaq in 2016, and i have no idea rewind exist lmao

@@blipblop1112 same haha

It’s kinda like he said, KZfaq after 2017 or so became so diverse by category that there’s no way to appeal to most of the audience in 8 minutes. For people in the gaming space like Ludwig, you’ll miss a lot of the stuff on the outside with how big gaming has become and the fact the YT algorithm stopped promoting gaming after 201.

Before the 19.000.000 dislikes on 2k18,i never knew rewinds existed

I mean, he kinda new on youtube after he moved from twitch

I feel like what's also missed is all the "viral videos" cameo like the super hero kid shooting at the zombie baby prank that scares the girl that doesn't want her brother to get old. That's literally 3 huge viral videos one after the other being referenced in 1 scene. (It's at 9:02 ). This is why IMO old youtube was way better in terms in of Rewind videos. It wasn't only creators coming in and doing something as part of a cameo but also reference to viral things. in the 2013 one which he called cringe, you have kid president which was big back then, all the goats referencing that goat singing instead of singers trend, You have the real beauty sketches mixed in with Convos with my 2y/o, you have prancersise done by the actually lady from the viral video, You have the girl from the interpretation dance video recreating it followed by the bar mitzvah dancing kid recreating his dance. I feel like that's the big difference between now KZfaq/Internet and then KZfaq/Internet. Things that went viral were seen by almost everyone. Now it's all curated for you so you might miss out on something that others think is "viral". Which is why I feel like later rewinds fail. Not only do they try to cram a lot of people in a video they don't have much to reference in terms of viral videos/trends. In 2018 they used such board terms as viral ideas like Mukbangs, Fortnite and Kpop. Instead of doing like pewdiepie did and dug up viral memes and viral youtube moments even if controversial.

I think by Rewind 2018, people were starting to see how YT was changing to appeal to advertisers and companies rather than the actual communities that made the platform as successful as it is/ was and this video was the final nail in the coffin showing that...

It was to remember the year, then rating the year

I didn't know you watch Ludwig Dave, nice

Oh, hi Chris

Hey look, it’s George Japan! (Jk I love your videos Chris)

Hello Chris great to see you are a Ludwig Fan!

Whats up Johnson McCrane?!

Honestly it's crazy how breakneck shit has been since 2018. Like it does NOT feel like it's been 3 years since everyone was shitting on Will Smith with the THATS HOT meme.

@@MAJ0ROCEL0T it feels like last year…

@@MAJ0ROCEL0T wtf that was 3 years ago? You literally could have told me it was last year and I would have believed you. That's insane

10 seconds ago was the time where i didnt read this comment

@@apartofme I literally still quote things from that rewind ironically, and it was 3 years ago? What the fuck.

Joji left to pursue music

@@luigi_fan2989 True , but he talked about those things befor moving over to music. The main problem is , if you do not get monotized (even if you find some other way of making money of your videos) , then youtube wont make any money off your videos ( you will only be a burden) and you won't get promoted by the algorithm. Which means that it's basicly the advertisers who chooses what Content are acceptable or not.

I was legitmately surprised that the only mention of FlithyFrank was the Harlem Shake throughout all rewinds

Complaining about the loss of FF yikes

@@podefunder why is that a yikes lol?

Yeah and the music was a huge part of that year for me at least like 2011-2013 had some str8 bangers that when I listen to them I get a huge wave of nostalgia

Facts!

@@APimpNamedSlickBak which was also S tier

he even skipped the best slow mo guys part from that video :(

@@APimpNamedSlickBak but my brba reference :(

2017's production quality tops every thing

I think this is VERY accurate especially with 2020-now Also oh my gosh, 2017 KZfaq was a war zone oh my goodness....

dude, you’re so right with 2020 being a year of smaller creators. i felt like i RARELY ever watch a video from a mainstream creator from that year and i started to watch more smaller creators because i feel like the trending tab is basically dogshit cause of what happened in 2018

2005-2009 is basically myth at this point.

for youtube, 2021 is probably the worst. KZfaq keeps suggin the balls of corporations with frequency and removed the dislike button so that the companies wouldn't get massive dislikes on literally every video because it's trash.

for some reason the hoax of the world ending in 2012 and not happening woke up something inside of people and shifted the ways of the world.

I know what you're trying to say but at the same time people do grew up in Chan culture etc. will feel very different 🙂

@@LordMegatherium Chan culture like 4 Chan or something less funny

@@bishhsasspusi2904 Turn out the end of the world is not that far away, it just 2040!!!!

Well, there were subcultures for years at this point, but 2012 was the year when everything became so interconnected, you could really tell THE internet culture started forming

Same here. It's weird getting those flashes of memories, but it's still kinda nice bc of the nostalgia of it all!

How do you not remember those years at all? Like, I get that certain eras in your life can become a blur, but it seems odd to me that someone wouldn’t remember half of a decade. Maybe that’s just because those were my formative years (middle school, mostly) so I remember them pretty well.

@@SmoothTurtle840 I know facts of my life at the time, but from what I learned others have said, not my own POV, and remember certain moments and how they made me feel. So it's not, like, bad, i just don't understand how people can recall that period of time of and on their own. I just don't have strong long memory, but tbh I don't have any reason to make it accessible again, although it does feel nice when I can resurface more nostalgia i didn't know i had like from this video :)

@@alfirstar same

@@alfirstar I've never had someone put into words, I can only remember stuff from like a few years ago, maybe 3 or 4 years vividly and the rest is just non existent, sometimes even people I've met 1 or 2 years ago just don't exist to me anymore. Kinda sad but I'd rather forget everything than remember every thing

This.

Mostly because KZfaq became too big for its own good. It got to the point where they needed to cram in every popular creator from every genre and every country into rewind in order to have someone for everyone. There are probably hundreds of channels with over 10 million subs that you could realistically never know about today, where in 2012 there was like 15 big creators that everyone knew.

The Casper lee and zoella thing is probably because he’s American, most Americans weren’t aware of and didn’t watch that group of yotubers with Caspar lee and zoella and stuff but Ksi and in particular pewdiepie were way more well known

There's people in the livestream commenting DAN AND PHIL right where Ludwig was like "I don't know who half this people is". 2013 was such a strong incredible time in terms of content creators, and honestly, the KZfaq Rewind for that year was one of the best. They really tried to include anyone and I would say they almost succeeded.

True, when he said that he didn't recognize anyone in 2014 and I kept seeing my that time favorites every second😂

And we can’t forget filthy frank was on top in 2015/16 because it was before the family friendly enforcement

Yogscast felt that

Yeah when he mentioned Roosterteeth and The Yogscast I was like…bruh were you even on the internet? Yogs took off around 2011-2012, riding Minecraft in order to do so (along with CaptainSparklez, SethBling, and a few others, everyone and their mother had a Minecraft let’s play going). Roosterteeth popped off around the same time with Rage Quit, Minecraft, and later GTA V, hitting peak around 2013-2015. I’m pretty sure Yogscast died around 2014 when Pewds, Jack, Mark, and a few others basically took over.

Dude I thought people forgot about Yogscast at this point- nice to know that isn't the case. But unfortunately we're a decade past at this point from their glory days.

@@riskingrain1560 Idk though, the Yogscast Jingle Jam is going pretty well so far this year, 25k viewers as I write this comment. Maybe they’ll have a comeback?

Exactly

You’re saying different people have different opinions? Yo, that’s crazy.

Agreed

@@FecalMatador Actually all my personal opinions are correct and anyone who ever disagrees with me is objectively wrong

@@FecalMatador And people can judge other's opinions too. Woah Amazing, I know.

It's 2021 and status means a lot now sadly, people don't wanna be grouped up with someone who enjoys nyan cat and annoying orange and stuff like that. I'll admit I don't want to watch any of it anymore since I'm grown up now, but I do appreciate what they did and stood for. It was entertainment, to some, it still is.

Same! As someone who's been watching KZfaq since 2012, I miss when I first saw the YTRewinds and actually enjoyed them without worrying about how popular it was to hate on it tbh

Honestly yeah, cringe culture was one of the worst things to happen to the internet.

Cringe culture has existed forever tbh. They just didn’t call it cringe back then, but its most definitely there.

Growing up and looking back at embarrassing things, or seeing weird stuff that's just plain "wtf" to look at was considered to be cringe and still is. I agree, the cringe stuff existed for years, but was higher in the 2013-2016 era since a variety of new things were introduced into KZfaq that people disliked. The Harlem Shake (created by George Miller aka Filthy Frank) was a trend that everyone did and since then, George himself stated to be embarrassing at times since he never understood why it became trendy. Before 2013, many of those things were simply considered comedy or entertainment, such as the Numa Numa, Star Wars kid, etc. Chocolate Rain

The father, the son, and the Holy Spirit

@@hannahjwhitson i- ... you know what yeah

I frequently forget jacksepticeye and markiplier exist lol

@@Em-._.- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a6h7dZl6mtTXomg.html

@@mattygee6852 dude I was contributing to the conversation. Maybe you should look in the mirror to figure out who asked 🤷

Hey man the old youtube rewinds were great

@@eekeey Yeah besides them though they weren’t really good. I wish they could’ve made the newer ones like they did with old ones

Don't read my name:'--:'-:''-+

It’s called the I’m out of content oh no stream 723

It's only 10 dud

I was so confused when I saw the 2018 memes bc all it felt like they literally just happened

@@SnehaR1309 yah it took me a second to realize it’s been 3 years.

could you clarify on the "fall offs where the change in content is practically a different channel" part? genuinely interested in your thoughts!

you don't watch Markiplier?

it was most hype

Some of the most classic mc youtubers were more prominent and greater than 2012. Minecraft would likely be more of a trend if its initial era only was influential for 1 year straight. 2013 is a highly influential year.

I had to pause the video and give a dislike, 2013 was the best rewind and best year for youtube.

And a lot of time wasted. At least I watch Vanoss since it's short enough. I kinda stopped watching Mark aside from reusing stock expressions is that most of his videos are long so i couldn't catch up anymore. And it's too late since I'm working now

tbh I've enjoyed this.

I think a lot of it is also that it was around 2020 when the meta emerged of streaming on Twitch and then posting either a raw or edited VOD to KZfaq, making it a lot easier to do long-duration content because you could justify it by double-dipping on the creator side.

The KSI train scene is kinda sick tho

Christina, may she rest in peace, is briefly in the 2011 rewind.

2010 and 2011 too though

@@supercute590 I mean those two years was full of FRED mostly. And then RayWilliamJohnson took over as KZfaq king. Until smosh

@@supercute590 Nah those two years youtube was still too in its infancy. KZfaq peaked 2012-2016.

Goated?

@@yeahwhatever7769 "Goated" is a verb that comes from the phrase "greatest of a time," which is often abbreviated to G.O.A.T., or goat. To say something is goated means it carries the qualities of something that could be described as the greatest of all time.

EXACTLY BRO!

The pandemic actually forced KZfaq to go back to their roots and put a much larger emphasis on pushing smaller content creators

Bull

2020 was shit for yt

normie zoomer spotted

they had some non english but yeah not a lot tho i do understand why, even with a mostly english cast a lot of people dont find recognizeable creators. they are too big

Yeah, they should have made region specific rewinds

It's basically English and a little Spanish and Korean. The rest of the world doesn't matter apparently

In older rewinds, you can see multiple other top youtubers

Dont they make different rewinds for that very reason?

I was looking for this comment!

he was rating youtube years based off of the rewinds. it made sense fnfbdj

And now hes an insane conspiracy theorist trump supporter

@@MrDyl666 wait what

@@yellowdragon101 oh yea during the capitol riots he tweeted out in support of them yelling stop the steal and shit

@@yellowdragon101 among other anti vaxx stuff

In hindsight it’s probably for the best considering he’s completely batshit now.

"Waah! Muh dislikes!"

@@ifiss_hsfs Yes, but today most of the big channels are focused on making money more than creating quality content.

@@Ratchet2431 Thats a very good point. I wonder what youtube would be like if they didn't pay you and it was just a site to get noticed by companies that fit your niche? 🤔

Just look at the popular creators from then to now and then you'll instantly know old youtubes better

Just use a plugin

what

Would’ve been a better ending

They aren't the island boys bro💀

Everybody doing the Harlem Shake: cringe Filthy Frank inventing the Harlem Shake (and his canon of incredible work): anything but cringe

2013 got shafted by Lud

Yeah, his take on 2013 was horrendous, the birth of filthy frank could never be trash tier

2013 was just a dogshit year overall

2012 was good cringe. It’s like when some 7 year old kid goes up to you and tells you knock knock jokes while dabbing on the punchlines. Yeah it’s cringe but it’s so bad it’s pure.

Ikr, watching all these was a nostalgia trip

I completely agree

I’m glad I still have the boys on cold ones doing their thing

I mean I'm just stating my opinion here so please don't attack me but personally I was never a massive fan of the filthy Frank era with leafy and such I always kind of thought it was sort of like just straight band kid humour but just my opinion.

@@cillian5304 I don’t mix leafy in with that group but yeah I get it

@@user-zo5jo3ox5g, you gotta mix leafy in it, since that’s the era when he got roasted for having no chin and then his career vanished

@@JamesDude100 And those were still better times.

It’s a very just okay video. Compared to KZfaq’s rewind it’s way better but on its own is fairly mid.

@@DDub04 thats what its supposed to be cant have anything spectacular if the videos are average

@@DDub04 Okay, internet connoisseur. Clearly you know more about making KZfaq Rewinds than the biggest youtuber and 3 best memers of that time.

Well it's quite average, it caters to only his own audience, it's very anglophone but in fairness it was for his audience only, it's more like a PewDiePie circle jerk rewind/ meme rewind even there only English memes

@@user-or8ql3fe5v never claimed to. But as a person with eyes and opinions, I have the brain capacity to criticize a KZfaq video. If being able to think critically about the stuff I watch makes me an “Internet connoisseur”, than very well. But don’t patronize me because I don’t take “biggest KZfaqr and best three memers” as a prestigious title.

cool pfp btw

Same, I thought it was a TERRIBLE take from Lud

I don't think he was rating the rewind itself but the impact the year had on youtube itself

@@katero9795 you're not wrong but he also didn't really have many good things to say about the rewind. My opinion still stands even if he was rating the year

At the time we didn't call it the Arab Spring either it was "X war in X country" it was only later that folk realised what it was

I’ve unsubscribed lol 😂

Dan and Phil are the DreamSMP of early youtube

@@LethalMonarch exactly, they were the blueprint lmao

@@latristessdurera8763 okay?

That's still a mistake 4 years later

You must be six years old

@@Bandmanwun I'm watching Ludwig. Of course I'm a child.