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yo this was fucking epic and i almost shit myself when i saw the thumbnail
legend
Smosh will forever be GOAT
you got good content bro that's why you're in the thumbnail
Lol imagine
what stopped you?
With no more rewind, KZhead should make their own version of "Spotify Wrapped." It would be great to see what channels I watched the most throughout the year, what music I listened to, etc.
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?
The first youtube rewind I ever saw was 2014 and i remember LOVING it at the time. I think it was because nobody knew "youtubers" yet and it felt like a little secret community where I knew all the people in the vid and understood all the references when lots of other people wouldn't have. It's obviously outdated now but it still has a place in my heart
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 KZheadrs like "look mom that guy HolaSoyGerman I showed you last week is famous!"
The chat was understandably upset when Ludwig didn't bother to watch 2017's animated segment during the credits
Best part of rewinds were the animators fr
2012: This was such an important year for KZhead, so influential and culturally significant. Literally one year later: I feel like this was the beginning of the end.
I mean 2013 wasn’t a bad year either. That’s when Pewdiepie got the respect he deserved from KZhead. Then a few years later, KZhead 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
i firmly believe that youtube rewinds started going downhill when they started letting people talk in them
@@user-cn8di1qr9h no
@@user-cn8di1qr9h no
@@user-cn8di1qr9h literally, your mom 🚶🏻
why
That's fair, I kinda agree. I can see it
2015 rewind is so nostalgic to me. I watched Mark before that year, but I remember so vividly seeing him in the rewind, watching with my friends, and being so excited that a CC I adored was there. 7 years later, and he's still one of the best IMO. Good times.
SAME because of Mark and Mat i was so into FNAF
this video made me realize that what made youtube rewind good is being forgotten. like there are trends that made me so happy as a kid, but now i don't remember much and i just can't enjoy the videos besides feeling a fleeting sense of nostalgia that i don't understand anymore
The twitch chat underneath Lud’s camera will always be in our hearts.
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 KZhead, if it works it works in my opinion but I get that people got attached to the twitch aesthetic.
I can't believe you put yourself through this mate 😂
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?!
the creator-made rewinds (pewds and me beast’s) are so good though because they are focusing on memes and things that actually happened instead of just getting as many big creators together as possible
It's like watching your most embarrassing phase when your in high school. Gotta hand it to Ludwig for watching it through and through.
i love that 2012 is “year of the creator, super influential” but 2013 is “the beginning of the end” like damn we peaked QUICKLY
@@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.
KZhead history feels so weird being nostalgic even though it feels like 10 seconds ago.
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.
Finally someone acknoledged the significance of 2016 in meme culture. So good to reminise where we've come from. Makes you feel less alone when you have a shared history.
A big thing with 2018 as well is that's when creators really started to make their own individual rewinds for the year and started pushing more and more away from KZhead
Ludwig recognizing people but not recognizing trends/challenges/specific cultural things that where huge in any single year or not understanding why they were on the videos made me realize how much KZhead Rewinds lost their identity in the last years.
It’s kinda like he said, KZhead 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 KZhead/Internet and then KZhead/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...
Ludwig not recognizing anyone from the beginning of 2014 just makes me realize that we were on completely different sides of KZhead lmao
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 KZhead in 2016, and i have no idea rewind exist lmao
@@blipblop1112 same haha
I love how he used KZhead Rewind (which has been completely panned for being really out of touch and crap) to gauge how good each year was
It was to remember the year, then rating the year
I had never seen that Pewdiepie 2018 rewind, so many of the best memes from that year
2013's rewind is S tier, You can't judge just on music, it was overflowing with references to creator made viral videos
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 :(
As someone who doesn't remember teenage and young adult years this video made me feel somewhat warm inside. I remembered watching these rewinds for the first time when they premiered. Made me see the perspective of those years, they weren't that long ago. Thanks Ludwig and Shake for that nice experience, great video :)
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
I don't think Rewind can ever outdo 2012. It was a master piece
This made me realize how long I've been watching a lot of these people. The oldest starting in probably 2006 to current, the oldest "show"/channel that moved onto KZhead I started in late 2003. Though I do wonder how many people know that the Harlem Shake meme was made by Pink Guy
10:47 "He's traveling back in time to stop himself from saying the n-word" followed immediately by PewDiePie getting launched into another timeline had me dying
One thing I hate to watch as someone who practically grew up with KZhead, is that slowly over the course from 2012 to now, the censorship and increasing amount of ads have degraded this platform (never forget the Adpocolypse and the deaths of Filthy Frank, among other creators )
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?
Don’t disrespect your favorite Martian. Orphan tears go hard.
Loved this. Was great to have Ludwig's insights on this. Grew up on KZhead so this was fun
Ludwig not knowing the trends of these years is why he rated some lower than they should've. People who were watching daily life and challenges KZheadrs since like 2012 know nearly everyone for the next few Rewind years. I think Lud just had a skewed perspective due to him being more on gaming youtube than anywhere else. For example: He said “KSI!” when I said “Caspar Lee & KSI!” He said “Pewdiepie!” when I said “Zoella & Pewds!”
This.
Mostly because KZhead 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 KZhead 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😂
How I see it: 2005-2009 - Someone pointed out that this era is a myth and that’s literally a perfect description. The prehistoric era. 2010-2013 - The Golden Age of KZhead. It’s a lot of wholesome content that is probably cringe looking back on it but every creator was genuine and built the foundation for KZhead. 2014-2016 - Everything started to get bigger. More and more creators started to rise and KZhead felt like one giant community. The corporations were slowly starting to creep in however… (imo this was peak KZhead) 2017 - We don’t talk about this year. 2018-2019 - This is the start of where KZheadrs started to feel more like brands rather than creators. Money seemed to be a main drive for many, and content didn’t seem all that genuine. Internet culture also became “disfunctional” and “batshit insane”. Corporations have pretty much become a part of KZhead. 2020-Now - This time period was probably not what people wanted, but honestly it’s what people needed. A lot of reflection occurred during the pandemic, and overall brought the community closer. The big creators were struggling with ideas and ways to create, but the smaller creators thrived and grew as a result. As we gained a little bit of normalcy, it has seemed to be a good balance of creators. Conclusion: There has been high peaks and low lows with KZhead, but there could be a bit of optimism moving (only a bit, they can totally ruin this site if they felt like it)
2017's production quality tops every thing
I think this is VERY accurate especially with 2020-now Also oh my gosh, 2017 KZhead 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. KZhead 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.
Almost every year I go back to watch the 2013 rewind because it was the first one I saw and something about it hits me in the feels
I don’t think KZhead rewind is the best way to answer that question
2012 was THE year for the internet to truly gain it's culture.
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
11:05 I like that, regardless of how different they are, when ever people think of gaming youtubers they think of jacksepticeye, markiplier and pewdiepie. Like it rolls off the tongue to say the three and just generally regarded as the most recognisable
The father, the son, and the Holy Spirit
@@hannahjwhitson i- ... you know what yeah
I frequently forget jacksepticeye and markiplier exist lol
@@Em-._.- kzhead.info/sun/aKaEcpqBbKCppWw/bejne.html
@@mattygee6852 dude I was contributing to the conversation. Maybe you should look in the mirror to figure out who asked 🤷
2017 was pretty influential imo, as more foreign youtubers from more countries got to have even more participation (AKA the Neto brothers and several south american creators), along with a lot of the animation community getting a lot more representation
Dude i’ll be honest, i didnt like 2018 for obvious reason but the animation section made me smile, i liked seeing the animators and that was rly all i liked abt that years rewind
One thing he skipped over is how 2017 was the start of major family friendly enforcement. That's what makes 2016 goated And the start of KZheadr corporatisation with sponsors starting to have a bigger influence over content
And we can’t forget filthy frank was on top in 2015/16 because it was before the family friendly enforcement
2013 to 2014 were the rise of "relatable" contents hence Dan And Phil being there because they were kind of the pinnacle "lol so random but I'll cringe about this later" and by the end of 2014 was the rise of KZhead music artist like Christina Grimmie, PTX and other singers that were growing on the platform along with gaming
Christina, may she rest in peace, is briefly in the 2011 rewind.
The fact that he didnt recognize dan and phil already spells the end for him imo
I remember back in 2018 the entire youtube community waited for the rewind in excitment because of the AMOUNT of ACTUAL CONTENT we had. Raging from memes to music. It was a goated year, so the rewind was truly disappoiting.
2020 was the year of what I call the "Duration Chasm" where videos became either 30 second shitposts or half an hour to 3hr essay length pieces about extremely niche subjects and there is no in between. The ten minute video is dead, videos now take up a full day to listen to and theyre not afraid to go balls to the wall. 2hrs, 4hrs, 6 hrs. Its gotten so that a 1hr video feels short.
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 KZhead, making it a lot easier to do long-duration content because you could justify it by double-dipping on the creator side.
When did we start caring whether or not something was cringe? I miss when things were just enjoyed. And, even if you didn’t like it, you could still respect the creativity behind it. The Harlem Shake was a pretty awesome thing back when it came out.
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 KZhead 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 KZhead 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
Dude this made me feel so good tbh- just being reminded of all the good days
I’d also like to add that 2018-2019 was also around the time where videos with non-meme/shot post premises designed for technical explanation in different topics because more mainstream and prevalent
It's kind of funny that basically every instance of him saying "this was the year X channel started taking off" that was actually the year they peaked and plummeted.
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
"Watching every KZhead rewind" Geez Lud really is dedicated to his videos/streams
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
This brought back so many memories from when I was first discovering KZhead, and the impact that had on my primary school experience 😂
4:00 I kid you not when I was in school one of my teachers would play that song in the morning for every Friday and I am convinced they were the sole reason for it getting that many views.
this just made me realize 2018 memes have had so much longevity and cultural impact, all current memes feel like they can only be understood in the context of 2018
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.
2013 literally is the best year, u don't see them as cringe AT THE TIME. I remember watching variety of unique and creative creators at 2013(smosh, rhett n link, rocket jump, etc.) and they get represented in YT rewind very well, like i know 90% of the creators that went into it. Its like 2012 but more improved. ludwig is trippin.
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.
I find it really funny how you keep the commentary and like doing the rating and I was crying out if nostalgia LMAO
14:40 the most twitch viewer thing i have heard ludwig speak LOL
I have no idea how Ludwig can rate 2013 that low. That one will always be one of my favorites and honesty I feel like they peaked there .
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.
Kinda sad that he stopped watching the 2013 rewind just before the video hit its peak with the Slow Mo Guys segment. Which I would say is definitely not cringe and is far better than any scene of any following Rewind.
The KSI train scene is kinda sick tho
Low key such a good vid. Much needed for nostalgic purposes
Ludwig better redo this now 2 years later
I forgot how good Pewdiepie's 2018 rewind was, especially compared to all the other stuff KZhead themselves did. Nice throwback, thanks for this video!
I personally feel like 2020 was a goated year. It felt like a return to the old KZhead in a lot of ways. A lot less production polish and a lot more focus on the individual creators and I don't think there was a more collaborative time that Among Us.
EXACTLY BRO!
The pandemic actually forced KZhead 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
I love 2012 - 2014 we were so hyped and everyone was excited for the rewinds lol Can’t believe how many years have past.!
Nothing will ever beat Bed Intruder. Period
“It’s not over yet we still have a month left. A lot can happen.” They say that every year and stuff always… always hits the fan in the end or transitions over to January..
When you thought Ludwig was gonna rate the actual video and the creativity rather than the year 💀
22:40 LMAOOOOO THIS AGED LIKE MILK
I wonder how many other early 2000's kids feel this way, but for me (05'), the rewinds and YT culture from 2010 to at least 2014 is so engrained on my memory and nosltagic that even the trashy shit from those years is always going to be top tier for me. I also think that 2015+ is still nostalgic but it's easier to be critical of those years than the ones before, idky.
I completely agree
Appreciation for Hank and John Green, truly pioneered KZhead. With them founding VidCon
2012-2014 actually was goated, but the rewind barely showed the actual KZhead culture.
2010 and 2011 too though
@@supercute590 I mean those two years was full of FRED mostly. And then RayWilliamJohnson took over as KZhead king. Until smosh
@@supercute590 Nah those two years youtube was still too in its infancy. KZhead 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.
22:12 his face when he saw belle delphine 💀💀💀
bro 7:04 the FEELS kid president was my childhood i could get through a month without my school showing one of his videos.
Aw man I didn't expect to not being able to stop smiling while watching Pewdiepie's 2018 rewind. So many classics, so nostalgic
Ikr, watching all these was a nostalgia trip
Fun Fact: You didn’t have to watch all the KZhead Rewinds the fact that they just took our dislikes away in 2021 just proves old youtube is better.
"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
youtube literally raised me... when there were emotional problems at home and in life, i had an escape, and that was youtube, i learned good english at a young age, i learned to be a good person from good examples, i watched a lot of dantdm, matpat, markiplier, jacksepticeye and so many others. life was good when life wasnt trying to fuck you over
Every time there's two people on screen I always recognise/get excited about the opposite people to Lud
He went from rating the rewinds to rating the year then back and forth. Honestly a really scuffed list.
I was looking for this comment!
he was rating youtube years based off of the rewinds. it made sense fnfbdj
Growing up watching these felt different, watching these now is rough. 2012 was definitely the best. Like seeing Smosh and Corridor Digital together was amazing. Corridor Digital is still making banger videos
I think 2012 was the first year I started watching FreddieW, Corridor, Epic Meal Time. So nostalgic. FreddieW, and Corridor influenced me to persue a career in Animation and VFX.
Ngl this felt like a hit of nostalgia while some of these aged like milk and also aged like fine wine I’m glad we can all agree that these are good recaps of KZhead’s history
cool pfp btw
I am genuinely depressed that Tobuscus was not brought up… that guy BUILT the Minecraft community when he was the king of KZhead, and that very much helped gaming get its footing on the platform.
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.
its amazing ive never seen a single one of the rewind videos
10:38 Zoe and Felix is such a weird combo that mt brain just stopped for a second there
The period between 2012 and 2017 was just Golden age KZhead, which also meant it to be at the height of its power. It had such a serious hold on me that I had also developed a huge addiction towards it, and spent the larger part of 2018 with massive anxiety as a result. It shows both the quality and the quantity of content being produced on a regular basis, which was both amazing as well as downright overwhelming.
Lud: *Gives 2012 a pass for being cringe because it wasn't at the time* Also lud: *gives 2013 trash because it's cringe*
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.
I think the first one i recognized was 2013. I used to get so excited to see them. Its been a crazy 9 years for me watching
Ok seeing creators that I watched at completely different times in my life interact is so wild. I did not know that mark rober was aware of dreams existence. Like it makes sense that he would know who he is but that one really threw me for a loop lmao
The most curious thing about rewinds is the lack of non-English representation. They are chock full of diversity and whatever, but only among anglophone channels. They forget that their own platform is completely global.
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?
as someone who had a MASSIVE youtube hyperobsession at age 12 in 2012 and watched every single thing i loved about the site be absolutely destroyed by cooperations and greed, i feel so old. and i'm only 21. feels like yesterday when ray william johnson casually called me and my friends fat lesbians on twitter and we quickly moved on from that discourse because the newest lunchtime with smosh video was about to drop
I think Ludwig misjudged some years because a lot of things included were from movies. Moana came out in 2016; Frozen came out late 2013 (hence it showing up for the first time in 2014).
2010 and pre2010 KZhead is dramatically underrated. Charlie the Unicorn going to candy mountain and “Old Greg” were part of OG meme culture. There was also a period where KZhead was predominantly made up of random skits and relatable videos. For the camera quality and editing limitations we had back then, the content was still really creative. Nigahiga, Smosh, Jenna Marbles, Shane Dawson, Stevie Ryan’s multiple channels… all based on skits and characters.
Lud was contractually obligated to say he loved the rewinds
Regarding the Arab spring in 2011, a LOT of people thought we were actually going to see a democratic revolution wave throughout the Arab world. Yes people died because literal war lords ruled that part of the world. But the strive towards democracy was something inspiring.
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
Best content I've seen in ages. Keep up the good work!
Mannnn the solar eclipse for 2017 was a throw back for me and made me remember the ARK days with my friend's and how we got Mutated Red Wolves that same day and we named one of them Solar. Those were good times and I miss it ;n;
I forgot about pewdiepie's rewind. What an insanely great video
It’s a very just okay video. Compared to KZhead’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 KZhead 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 KZhead 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 KZheadr and best three memers” as a prestigious title.
2013 got snubbed, definitely the best rewind ever made. I will die on this hill
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
2015 was definitely my favourite KZhead rewind and definitely had the best guests
I've need seen mots of these in so long honestly lots of repressed memories of them only remember certain clips really here and there weird to see it
The Filthy Frank era of youtube is still holds a place in my heart.
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.
Ludwig every year: I-I feel like this is the rise of gaming creators
Man, I miss those rewinds 😢
The 2014 hit me too hard, i started school that year and i made friends that i still am friends with over some of those things, it was a wild year.
The early days of KZhead were so wholesome the videos were simple but they had a charm to them because of how most of them were just people in their houses recording random things happening in their lives with a camcorder
Couldn’t agree more