YouTube Rewind 2019: For the Record

"YouTube Rewind 2019:
For the Record
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Original release dateDecember 5, 2019 (2019-12-05)
Running time5 minutes and 37 seconds
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YouTube Rewind 2019: For the Record (also known simply as YouTube Rewind 2019) is a video that was uploaded to YouTube's official channel on the video-sharing website YouTube on December 5, 2019, as the tenth and final installment of the YouTube Rewind series. The video contains montages of the top videos and YouTubers of the year.

Although marked as an improvement over the previous installment, YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind, the video received negative reviews, with critics and the general audience finding the video uncreative in comparison to past Rewind videos.[1][2]

For the Record amassed over 3.1 million dislikes within 24 hours of release and 5 million dislikes within 48 hours of release, more than those acquired by Everyone Controls Rewind in the same timeframes. It currently has over 9.6 million dislikes, making it the sixth most-disliked video on YouTube. YouTube forwent producing a Rewind installment for 2020, and announced the series' discontinuation the following year.[3]

  1. ^ Leskin, Paige. "The internet is roasting YouTube's 'Rewind 2019' video, with people calling it lazy and low-budget". Business Insider. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  2. ^ "YouTube Rewind 2019: Minecraft, BTS and PewDiePie... but people still aren't happy - CBBC Newsround". Archived from the original on December 7, 2019. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  3. ^ Spangler, Todd (October 7, 2021). "YouTube Will Stop Making Year-End 'Rewind' Video Compilations". Variety. Archived from the original on October 7, 2021. Retrieved October 7, 2021.