YOUTUBERS REACT TO YOUTUBE REWIND 2017

– Oh my gosh, look at us!
– (laughs) – How would you deface a Paul? – (FBE) All right, so this is
an annual tradition for FBE to talk about the issues
of YouTube inside our
YouTube Rewind episodes. – Oh, goodness. ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪ – Space. – Stars. Rewind.
– No, that’s the YouTube! This is YouTube Rewind!
– It’s YouTube Rewind! Ohh!
– Yay! – Is it that time?
– YouTube Rewind every year. – I just watched this today. – (Stephen) …back
to YouTube Rewind. – Oh, snap.
– (gasps) Oh, Liza! – The ambassadors.
– (Stephen) Tell me about 2017.

– ♪ Oh no ♪
– I was like, they already look like they’re like,
“Oh boy. A lot happened in 2017.” – Oh!
– Niana!! – Oh!
– Luis Fonsi!! ‘m trying to see who I know. – Very global. Wonderful. – Oh, wait. That’s me!
I got my 0.5 seconds in there. – Marshmello!
– Whoa. Everybody’s getting
a split second in this this year. – ♪ …suave suavecito ♪
– It’s pretty cool that they got the “Despacito” guys in there. – Um, oh, okay. That’s so fast. Okay. Fidget spinner. – Fidget spinners, man. – ♪ Nobody pray for me ♪
– (both) Oh, that’s cool. – ♪ Way, yeah, yeah ♪ – That’s cool.
– This is the coolest part. – Oh my gosh, look at us!
– (laughs) And that’s it. That’s our whole part. All right
– And that’s our whole part, yeah. – Thank you, guys.
– I feel like I probably don’t get at least a solid 50%
of what the references are here.

– I love salt bae. – Slime. Slime was big this year.
– Slime has been huge this year. – I can’t believe half
of these things were this year. – Oh, this was this year? – I love this! This is one
of my favorite things on the internet. – I can’t even follow
how many people I’m missing. – I recognize 1% of
these people right now. What does that say
about me as a You– I guess I’m a
pretty bad YouTuber. (chuckles) – Oh, it’s the eclipse. – Casey! – Oh, I love Casey. – Oh, it’s Caspar.
– Oh yeah, it’s Caspar, Joe. – Joe.
– Rosanna! – I don’t even know
any of those references. Oh! It’s Taylor Swift.
The one I should know. – They should’ve had
a Vine tombstone. – ♪ Somebody once told me… ♪
– I can’t tell who they are. – Yeah, I know. It’s hard
with all the makeup.

– I’m glad we didn’t
have that part. (chuckles) You can’t tell! Oh,
that’s Anthony, I think. – Hey! There I am! (snickers) And I’m dabbing
into another dimension. – ♪ …the clock is ticking ♪ – It’s Poppy.
– (gasps) Poppy! – (anchor) Much of the Houston area
is still in disrepair. – Now they’re doing current events?
I don’t think they did that before. – There were a lot
of tragedies this year. – Aww, that’s sweet.
– Unity. – Oh, I just got goosebumps!
– You got goosebumps? – (exclaims in excitement) – Why is it making me feel things? – Very heavy.
– That’s nice. – They will not let
fidget spinners die.

– Oh, this is Jake, Marshmello.
– Jake. Again. – Anwar. Rudy. Innana. – I love all the paint.
Of course, I love the paint. – TomSka, right in the face. – I wish I got to do
one of the slime fights. That looks like it
would’ve been fun. (silence)
– How would you deface a Paul? – Oh, they’re gonna emphasize
the war between the brothers.

– Uh-oh.
– Oh, they mad. ♪ (upbeat pop music) ♪
– No, they’re friends. It’s kind of like their fake
online beef with each other. – That kid made it. – Don’t you dare
get Dan and Phil dirty. – (Stephen) Floor is lava.
The floor is lava. – Oh, the floor is lava.
That’s cute. – The floor is lava. (laughs)
– Oh yeah, the lava! – I forgot about that one. – (Poppy) I’m Poppy.
– She gets her line. – This is a lot to handle. – Hannah! Good job.
You made a part. – Wait, I get my moment of fame. There I am! And there I am. – I love these videos.
They’re so creative. – (Stephen) It looks like you
were interrupted there. – (both laugh)
– (Stephen) …tell me about 2017? – (Liza) It was, uh, it was good.
– (Lele) Okay. – Very descriptive. – Oh, I love that animators
are getting some air time too. – That’s a cute– oh!
They even put the animators in.

– Aww. Cute.
It just really makes you feel so proud that
so many different people with so many different genres
and so many different interests can all come together
in this one massive internet. – That was one of my
favorite YouTube Rewinds. – It was done so much better.
They fit so many more people in. They even honored some tragic stuff,
which, you know, I feel like this is a culmination
of everything over the year. – It was about happiness and unity
and bringing people together and the world coming together as ONE.
– And slime. – I don’t remember
what I just watched. – It was very overwhelming. – (FBE) So how was your experience
being in YouTube Rewind this year? – Yeah, I mean, I think
there’s a running joke now in the YouTube community
that we all hope we get our 0.2 seconds of fame
in the YouTube Rewind, ’cause it just gets bigger
and bigger every year.

– I was there in costume
for four or five hours getting that makeup done
and everything, and then it’s like
five seconds of air time. – We got HAMMERED by snow.
– Yeah. – It was half styrofoam, half–
– And half snow. They shot it out of a huge cannon,
so every time it went off, they’re like, “Hey, act scared.”
I’m like, “Don’t worry.

That sound is like poof.” – It’s like BOW!
– Everyone was like, “AHHH!” – (FBE) Being YouTube Rewind,
it has a lot of YouTubers in there, but you weren’t in there.
– I know. I was supposed to be there,
but I was out of town filming a movie.
– I KNOW!! I wanna be in the
YouTube Rewind is SO BAD! – To me, this is more of an honor
than YouTube Rewind.

Who wants– – Yeah, yeah. I wanna
be the Kibitzer. I wanna be the commentator of the–
– Exactly. I’d much rather react to a YouTube Rewind than be in it. – How does one get asked
to be in the YouTube Rewind video? – There was one old guy with
a tie on during the dancing scene. – (FBE) So YouTube Rewind
in its earlier days, always had its issues
with the reality of not being able to include everyone.
Now it’s even more impossible because we’re growing.
YouTube has even more creators now. – Yeah. I was actually
kind of surprised to be invited. – There are so many
controversial channels, and there are–
you can’t fit everybody in, so how are you gonna choose? – With so many types of creators,
and therefore their fans, it’s impossible to please everyone.

Maybe YouTube should
split it up throughout the year and do it by country or by region,
and do it quarterly. – I know a lot of content creators
who passed on doing it this year. Either their scheduling
didn’t work out, or they just didn’t feel
it was necessary, they’ve been in it before.
But I always have a decent time. It feels like a friend
that I owe a favor to every year. – (FBE) All right, so this is
an annual tradition for FBE to talk about the issues
of YouTube inside our YouTube Rewind episodes.
– Oh, goodness. – (FBE) So the continual changes
in the algorithm and the recommendation engine
have caused big view fluctuations. How has this impacted
your channel if at all? – Oh yeah. Algorithm.
YouTube algorithm is a big thing this year.
– Mm-hmm. We have experienced that.
We were putting out two or three videos a week last year.
And then this year, we’ve gone down to one video. – If you’re putting out
random stuff, which is basically what
most YouTubers start out doing, your audience
doesn’t know what they’re gonna get.

And so, it sort of
fluctuates your views and the algorithm just doesn’t like
when your views fluctuate. – You’re seeing a general change
in YouTube because of the algorithm which is rewarding
a lot more quantity over quality. I’m fearful as YouTube
continues down this road that it’s going to favor
that type of content that is very now-based,
very immediate, and quick. – If you’re just relying
on views, views, views only, that can go away with the wind,
with one little click of an algorithm change.
And you really can’t get mad at YouTube for doing that.
You can only be mad at yourself for not kind of utilizing
the resources that you had at the time to diversify. – There’s a certain amount
of them taking a sample size and determining of that sample,
how many people are interested in that piece of content before
they propagate it out further. If not all of your audience
is interested in every kind of video you upload,
I think it can certainly sort of push down YouTube’s score
of how much it wants to throw out to subscribers.

The way that they’ve executed so far
is far from perfect. – Algorithm-wise, I would
say we’ve been impacted a little bit.
– Yeah. I’ve had friends that were with me
that are subscribed, and then I’ll post a video,
and then three hours later, I’m still hanging out with them,
and they’re like, “Oh, I just got notified.”
I’m like (huffs). – If someone makes
a conscious choice to subscribe to your channel,
they should always see your content. – Truth! – (FBE) Another big issue
this year has been demonetization. As a result of scandals around ads
being placed on videos, advertisers didn’t want to be on,
resulting in YouTube sometimes incorrectly demonetizing
content that has no issues. Can you talk about what you’ve seen
with demonetization? – I have not been affected
by demonetization too badly. – I haven’t had major issues,
but I’ve always sort of subconsciously created content that
wasn’t pushing too many boundaries, I’ve seen channels
like Phil DeFranco’s channel, a channel that I rely on,
I’ve seen him have issues with it, and that sucks.
– They stopped demonetization, right? Like if you curse
or something like that.

So if I say [bleep] right now,
it’s been bleeped. You bleeped it, right?
– (FBE) Yeah. (chuckles) – (laughs) – My channel is
super family-friendly, and I got some videos demonetized. They’re going back
through old videos. There’s three. One from a year ago,
one from three years ago, one from seven years ago,
and I’m like what?! I’ve been on YouTube for 12 years,
and this has never happened. – I got a ton of my stuff
demonetized by the machines. And it sucks
’cause you have to click that button
to have that manual review done, and then that could take days. – We never relied
on ads in the first place.

We make short films
or we make sketch comedy. They need to keep
the advertisers happy so that we can even
get anything, right? So I see both sides. – Seeing those videos demonetized,
it’s disheartening, ’cause some really important creators have an important message
and are helping information get out there. If
they can’t make money, that content’s gonna go away.
– However, taking steps to take away child abuse videos,
I think is important. – I know why they’re doing it.
I get it. It’s just… what they need to do
at the very least implement some kind of
good behavior system, where channels that are either
at a certain threshold of viewership, It’ll take someone
to manually review the video before it is demonetized.
Rather than putting the burden on the creator,
put the burden on them. – (FBE) Moving on to questions
that we ask every single year when we do this episode,
what’s something in your YouTube career
or your life that you’re very proud of
that happened in 2017? – 2017, what was most memorable? I did this movie
called The Babysitter.

– We had a big goal
to get to a million this year, and now we’re almost at two million. – In 2017, we reached $100,00 raised
for diabetes awareness. I’m a type I diabetic.
It’s like WHAT?! – We have a video coming out in 2018
where we got to fly to Alaska, and helicopter…
– Take a helicopter. – …to a glacier…
– …via a seaplane. – And then we got to race dog sleds
on a glacier, right?! – Wow, wow.
‘s like pretty dope stuff. – The most memorable thing for me
by far was leaving Smosh and venturing out to do things
as a solo, independent creator. I feel like I’m still
in a transition period of trying to figure out
what It means to do stuff on my own now.
– I’m just glad I’m still here. With YouTube, we’ve been
doing this for over 10 years.

We’ve seen so many types
of creators come and go. We’ve seen so many trends and waves.
And for us to be able to weather all of that,
I’m grateful for that. – (FBE) Finally, one year from now,
what is a prediction you have about the evolution of YouTube?
– Oh, god. The Paul brothers will be
czars of the YouTube Empire. – There will be an individual,
independently run channel that’ll be doing
a billion views a month. – I feel like YouTube Red
is okay, but I don’t think it’s gonna be the future of YouTube.
– I mean, I might be pitching a YouTube Red series next year,
so hopefully, it does well. (laughs) – To grow, they’re gonna
have to start competing with Hulu Netflix, and Amazon
in different ways. I think they’re gonna have
to start taking bigger risks. – YouTube has to address
some of these problems because creators are what
makes the platform great.

And if they don’t
address the problem, the creators are gone,
we’ll go somewhere else and continue to make great content. – Thank you so much for watching
this episode of YouTubers React. – If you like what you saw
and wanna follow these YouTubers, check their links out
in the description below. – I’ll see you guys next time.
– Hey, guys! Vartuhi here from FBE. Thanks for watching
this episode of YouTubers React.

A big thank you to all the YouTubers
that were in this episode. And special thank-yous
to Broken Wind, Moni V., and Mariah flips 123
for watching last week. Bye, guys!.

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