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On December 13, 2010, the first YouTube Rewind was uploaded, titled 2010 YouTube Rewind: Year in Review and featured the top ten most popular videos of the year on YouTube. It was uploaded on two channels: YouTube Trends on the first day, and YouTube Spotlight on the second.

YouTube has decided to stop making its year-end 'Rewind' videos going forward, stating that its platform has become so massive that it is “impossible to encapsulate its vastness and diversity within a minutes-long compilation”.Oct 8, 2021

Video sharing platform YouTube has confirmed that YouTube Rewind, the company's annual year-end round-up of trends, creators, memes, and the most popular videos on the site, has been cancelled for good.Oct 10, 2021

PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, was not included in the 2017 edition due to promoting anti-Semitic content and the use of racial slurs. Last year he was involved in a high-profile online battle with Indian music channel T-Series in the race for 100 million subscribers.Dec 6, 2019