YouTube Rewind 2019 Foreshadows the Site’s Boring Future in 2020

The video sharing platform learned from last year’s misstep — but this year’s edition shows the challenge YouTube has in the future

Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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4 min readDec 5, 2019

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Cast your minds back a year ago. YouTube unveiled its 2018 Rewind video, a monstrosity that started and ended with Will Smith’s beaming…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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