Monday, December 10, 2018

How Youtube Rewind should've gone

If you haven't seen Youtube Rewind this year, you didn't miss out on much.  Here's how I think they could've made it better.

First, a man in a grey hoodie stands where Will Smith was, and he turns around to reveal it's Tom Scott. "See this button?" He holds up a generic button.  "This will start the youtube rewind.  It's a lot of power for one person-"

From off-screen, PhillyD jumps in and hits it, saying "LET'S JUST JUMP INTO IT!"

Once the button is hit, Bill Wurtz style graphics and a short song transport us back to the beginning of the year, where we open to a shot of Ricky Berwick arguing with Ninja about who can be Tracer, maybe in TikTok response style.  Cut to one side, and it's Cody's Lab about to do some serious science, with AvE trying to convince him to do the wrong thing, Big Clive trying to convince him to do the right thing.  There's an explosion, and when the dust settles it's Report of the Week giving us a review of the restaurant that was knocked down by the explosion, saying "They weren't joking when they said it would knock your socks off."

The camera pans once again to Computerphile/Numberphile/Standup Maths/3Blue1Brown and a few other channels arguing about the various maths and sciences behind what just happened, and then the shot pulls away to reveal this was all on a monitor hooked up to a computer that Linus Tech Tips was testing some overclock function.  Linus gets a phone call though, and looks down at his phone and says something as we pan to the phone and see Laowhy86 or Serpentza calling to ask him about a colab on cheap chinese electronics.  The camera then pulls away from the phone, and we're with them now, and we pan back just a bit to reveal a drone.  Time-lapse of the drone brings us back to Casey Neistat interviewing Jake/Logan Paul about something in NYC or whatever, when we look behind them and see Mr Beast and his advert to sub to Pewdiepie, from which Pewdiepie jumps and is immediately accosted by Markiplier/JackSepticeye/etc.  The camera, while keeping them in frame, pans slightly and there's Marzia waving as she fades away.

Then it fades to black and there's various big animators doing animated things to the various big music channels playing music for them that matches up.  Starting perhaps with Life is Fun.

Anyway, that wouldn't be all of it, but it would've been a damned sight better than what they came up with.