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CMV: YouTube rewind will never be "good" again

Now, I'm not hating on YouTube for making a rewind people don't like. Quite the opposite. Before this year's rewind one of the most common criticisms of rewind was that it doesn't represent the YouTube community. I think YouTube has grown so large as a platform that they can't fit enough familiar faces for the majority of people to recognise in a rewind. This leads to most people who watch rewind thinking "this doesn't represent YouTube, I hardly know anyone in this". I don't think it is possible for YouTube to create a rewind that the majority will feel represent their perception of the YouTube community purely due to the number of creators compared to how many creators each of us can watch. Looking at numbers, there are over 2400 channels with more than 1mil subs. I'm not sure how many channels the average user actively engages in but it would be lucky to be even 0.1% of this number. Back when YouTube rewinds were liked the ratio of YouTubers engaged with to total YouTubers would have been much higher making it easier for YouTube to show the majority of people familiar creators. As such the like/dislike ratio has been gradually getting worse as the number of creators expands and the concentration of familiar creators in rewind is diluted for viewers. I accept it is possible that I am wrong and YouTube are capable of making a "good" rewind. Perhaps my reasoning as to why they won't be "good" is flawed and people don't feel like they need to see a lot of their favourite creators in rewind to like the video or even not dislike it. I hope I am wrong and it is possible for YouTube to make a rewind that the majority like, but I really don't think it's possible.
gpt
counterpoint: Youtube rewind **was never good** **to begin with**.

It has always been shameless corporate marketing, showing token favoritism to big-money creators. It's like the academy awards: stars of the platform are coerced into participation for fear of appearing 'ungrateful' for receiving such an honor as appearing in the rewind. Youtube in turn gets the labor and celebrity of their stars for free to make their corporate video. And the whole 'it only comes once a year, who's gonna be in it?!' is just to generate hype in the youtube audience, to encourage that we all watch it and talk about it.

Asking when it will be good again is like asking when the oscars will be good again. They were never good to begin with. They are terrible every year and always have been. 

To make a 'good' video, they would have to pay popular creators for participation/labor, and allow them to have creative input on their contributions to the rewind video. Neither of which youtube will ever do, because it goes against the very nature of what rewind is supposed to be:

A cash-grab pseudo-award ceremony, to make them look good.