YouTube Cancels Annual 'Rewind' Video This Year Because 2020 Was Too Awful

YouTube has canceled its annual Rewind video, a yearly feature that celebrates the site's trends and creators of the previous year, due to 2020 being too awful to celebrate.

In a statement posted to the site's Twitter page, YouTube writes, "Rewind was always meant to be a celebration of you… But 2020 has been different. And it doesn't feel right to carry on as if it weren't."

About Rewind this year. pic.twitter.com/oVayH8iyqG

— YouTube (@YouTube) November 12, 2020

The channel did note that its community has "found ways to lift people up, help them cope, and make them laugh. You made a hard year genuinely better."

The YouTube Rewind became infamous after its 2018 iteration, an opulent, self-congratulatory extravaganza which broke the record for the most disliked video on the site. In 2019, the site opted for a simple "listicle"-style Rewind video, though that also hardly impressed viewers, racking up over 9 million dislikes.

Online, news that the Rewind had been canceled prompted pondering about whether other creators should make a Rewind of their own. In particular, the Minecraft YouTube community around creator Dream felt he was the perfect candidate to make a Rewind celebrating the resurgence of the game that flourished in 2020.

minecraft was such a huge thing for youtube again in 2020 and i was so excited to see my favorite minecraft youtubers in there…dream you should totally make your own youtube rewind 2020 do it you wont

— caitlin (@caitnotfound) November 12, 2020

it sucks that there’s no youtube rewind but karl’s idea about making their own rewind would be cool! :] an smp rewind full of moments from events, the storyline and just a bunch of great scenes all put together ! we need this

— em! ⊚ (@ANTFR0ST) November 12, 2020

wait can everyone in the smp actually put together a youtube rewind since youtube isn’t? that would be cool

— grace ☆ (@HEROINNIT) November 12, 2020

they arent making a youtube rewind this year because dream would need to be in it and his ass is so big it would take up the whole video

— joleen misses dream !! (@NETHERGOBLIN) November 12, 2020