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Instant Regret Clicking This Playlist (commonly known as The Instant Regret Playlist) is a YouTube playlist consisting of over 2,500 videos. The playlist was created by a user named EpicDonutDude and had accrued over 790 million views as of August 30, 2018.^[1] Similar to the Important Videos playlist, the Instant Regret playlist is known for featuring short funny memes, unlisted videos, and other ephemeral internet videos.

Origin

EpicDonutDude originally made the playlist in 2015 to collect videos he would later share with his friends.^[2] After the playlist went viral it soon became a curation of videos that EpicDonutDude personally enjoyed.

Spread

Shortly after it's creation, the playlist was picked up by YouTube's recommended algorithm and the playlist went viral. The playlist has since been reacted by big YouTubers such as Pewdiepie, ^[3] Pryocynical, ^[4] Markiplier, ^[5] and The Fine Brothers. ^[6]

1 Billion Views

On April 24, 2019, Epicdonutdude published a video^[7] announcing that the playlist had been viewed 1 Billion times. In the video description he also shares some other analytics for the playlist such as the playlist was saved by 750,000 people, and has over 460 years in watch time

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