2024, in six minutes (just the weird stuff)

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

Happy New Year! It's my one year anniversary of doing this full time, so here's a state of the channel! Free to watch: www.patreon.com/posts/118610455 I know you are here for stories not the stories behind the stories, but for anybody who's curious, I thought I'd be transparent.

[@rocko44444444]

We need more reality in 2025 from Phil than ever. Stay true Phil!

[@lukecwolf]

Congratulations on making it one year. It's tough to be in your own, but hopefully you've got enough exposure and experience at your previous job(s). Wishing you many more years to come, we really need people like you to sort the mess.

[@joshnizzle]

Haha that’s awesome Phil you showed something from my area the escaped emu were crazy around here lol they’re still missing one I think😂

[@livingroom13]

please do this every year. You can be our new rewind.

[@PhotonBeast]

Has it only been a year? Thanks for all the pieces you put out! I always look forward to the stories you have to share. And to be transparent, I am here for both the stories and the stories behind the stories. The people that make things like yourself are important to me. Edit: Transition from "And the crowd threatens to explode" into the quote about pooping in the river. That's why I come to this channel - for your brand of subtle humour.

[@baronvonslambert]

I totally forgot we all trauma dumped on Elmo. What a year.

[@Mix1mum]

I feel like that was yeeeeears ago

[@milesgould8288]

That was this year? It feels like five years ago, minimum.

[@dinoz2113]

I did not hear or know about this how

[@SParkAtomix]

2024 really feels like a feverdream

[@0.-.0]

Every year since 2020 baby

[@sethproaps8899]

Too true​@@0.-.0

[@logank444]

Life's a fever dream

[@garlicxi]

this entire decade feels like a horrible acid trip

[@Martcapt]

​@@garlicxiroaring 20's baby! Nothing can go wrong!

[@lauchlan105]

Phil Edwards blessing us with the 2024 rewind we needed

[@ropro9817]

Almost as good as the old KZbin Rewinds 😂

[@knpark2025]

"I thought it was a deepfake" - Lee Jae-myung, South Korean opposition leader, when asked about his first impressions from the moment he saw Yoon Seok-yeol declare martial law on live television He really said it, verbatim, in Korean. While the AI has been getting more and more realistic the real world has become more and more bizarre in the opposite direction😅

[@soutarm]

The cut to the Wicked press tour after the Japanese space out competition was masterful

[@pendaco]

As well as the cut from the Charlie and the chocolate factory experience fiasco to the Timothée Chalamet lookalike competition 😂

[@JscoLP]

Why does it keep getting weirder weirder and weirder. It never stops getting weirder and it’s exhausting!

[@elduderino007]

We're witnessing, in real time, why the human brain is not well suited to drinking from the information firehose that is the internet.

[@randomtinypotatocried]

I'm starting to question if this isn't a simulation at this point with how batshit everything has gotten

[@sethproaps8899]

Harambe split the timelines, Peanut will unify them

[@michaelpapadopoulos6054]

we are approaching the singularity. This is the least weird things are gonna be from now on.

[@milesgould8288]

@@JscoLP the name for this feeling is "future shock".

[@TheLordOfNothing]

Half of this crap I missed because I wasn't on Twitter. Happy New Year everyone. May 2025 be better than 2024.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

and your year was probably better for having missed it!

[@jakmanxyom]

Honestly, with the strongest workers behind Know Your Meme and Lessons in Meme Culture, who needs being forever logged in to social media anymore... 😆

[@TheLordOfNothing]

@@jakmanxyom I really only stay on KZbin. I quit Facebook in 2017 after it turned into a brawl, I never used Twitter or Instagram.

[@MrMeowMeowMeow]

You're a smart person! ⭐

[@wobblysauce]

You can only stay turned up to 11 for so long.

[@bayandamsweli2005]

It's not that I forgot that these things happened, it's that I had no idea that these things happened. Thanks Phil

[@AmberLovesPugs]

You are not alone, dude. This is less of a rewind and more of a, "Oh, so that happened this year.... Cool."

[@fumochabalala6284]

Thank you Phil for being the best digital uncle

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

👴🫡

[@batboy07]

@@PhilEdwardsInc Hot Uncle.

[@navinvent]

You dont have to say company, its Vox, everyone knows it's Vox. Happy New Year

[@lewispotts]

Larry punching Elmo then immediately having to apologise was classic.

[@TheManBehindTheSlaughter1983]

I will come back every year for your Rewind style videos. This one was so good!

[@RookRolled]

I knew instantly when the Wonka incident happened that the depressed Oompa Loompa would be the photo to define 2024

[@sonny5068]

2025 is the year of disconnecting for me. I’m unsubbing from a lot KZbin channels, not listening to podcasts anymore. There’s an overload of information being thrown at us , both good info and poor info. We could all use a detox.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

i support you except for this channel

[@sonny5068]

@ this is one of the channels I’m not unsubscribing from! Too informative lol

[@thatjpwing]

I feel the same way. I'm definitely refining my focus on KZbin subscriptions and tuning out as much of the chaos and other noise as much as possible. (My subscription to this channel remains intact). Best of luck on your detoxing endeavors.

[@sonny5068]

@@thatjpwing thanks! To you as well!

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

@@thatjpwing funnily enough i remain pretty pro youtube and podcast, but i did delete threads/x off my phone (and never installed bluesky) and am much better for it.

[@developingtank]

It was one of the top 25 years of this century. That’s all I’ll say about it.

[@jt92]

Man MKBHD will never live down the lambo fiasco

[@desmond-hawkins]

This was clearly not a one-off.

[@nickthaskater]

What do you gain by dwelling on it?

[@Xanderall]

NEBULA: get this guy in your catalog!!

[@tomonabudget]

You said it well. 2024 was weird.

[@eruno_]

HOLOLIVE FEATURED LET'S GOOOOOOOO

[@StandardStoryCo]

Your channel is my favorite YT discovery of the year, I'm amazed at the consistent quality of your work. Hope you keep it coming! 🙏

[@oliviac2585]

The Trump Biden Chinese song still cracks me up every time

[@ehmmmjay9907]

I have a feeling the next few years will have us wishing for 2024...

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

😬

[@9ZERO6]

Not too sharp are you?

[@milesgould8288]

I remember seeing a tweet, pretty much exactly eight years ago, saying "2017 is going to make 2016 look like 2015." I think of that tweet often.

[@sailorkisser]

Anthpo and Hololive in a Phil Edwards video was not on my 2024 bingo card

[@hapacooks]

Thank you Phil for all that u do ❤ This was so good

[@GladiusArch08]

I found your channel during the Paris games this year. Love the exploratory content and obscure topics. Have a great 2025 ahead 🎉

[@skjultmann-ox1zt]

Looking forward to "2025 was weird"

[@TheCatherineCC]

the year of blood.

[@Maxxzyy]

If you really read all the comments, I just want to thank you for an great year with amazing content and I'm excited to see what interesting topics you'll take on the upcoming year! Thank you for this year Phil!

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

thank ya!

[@DomRiccobene]

1:04 Peter needs anew skin suit guy

[@sirfranchan]

Gosh thank you for this video, i just laughed so much. Man that MKBHD one is so smooth 😂😂

[@tayloreh]

2024 was when scumbags and scammers went shamelessly mainstream - and even when they lost, they won.

[@haydenhoes]

I love watching videos like these and being able to catch up on all the important things that I just never heard about

[@penthegachacat34]

The Walmart ad💀😭

[@BPBomber]

Damn I love me some Phil.

[@marafolse8347]

Hey Phil! I watched your State of The Channel. Very interesting perspective, always like to hear the BTS of this kinda thing. I've been watching you since Vox, but it's still hard to say which videos from you I will click on. I would say about 75% of your videos aren't personally interesting to me, and clicking on the rest is heavily mood dependent. Largely, I enjoy your personality and video editing, it's the perfect energy level for me, but it's not to the point that I'll watch everything you make. A click from me heavily depends on if I am personally interested in the topic. Thanks for making them!

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

getting that percentage up is my aim if you have any tips!

[@dezunne]

good stuff, I love retrospectives like these.

[@Travisharger]

Thanks, Phil. Appreciate your channel and your work in general.

[@adisario]

Thanks for keeping me thoughtfully entertained, Phil. Wishing you and your family a great 2025.

[@vingeran]

Love your work Phil. I hope that during these last days of the year, you are enjoying with family and friends. :)

[@ronrozen2105]

Fun and weird video, thanks Phil :)

[@pauljakeman]

What a weird year. And there’s stuff you missed out too. Great video and happy new year!

[@godo_denims]

What a year, Phil, what a year... hope you had a good one, even better next year.

[@rjstefani1]

Hey Phil. Feedback for your channel: I've watched your stuff since the Vox days and I like the direction you've taken on your own. The more obscure topics are very interesting and differentiate your channel. I personally really liked the Frank Lloyd Wright Utopia video. The depth, graphics, and general story telling of that was excellent. My favorite is your space photography video. The archives you had of all of the photographs and the history made that really special. In general, I think it also plays well and is interesting when you interview other folks and splice those into the video to support the points you're making. Everyone's a critic, but since you asked. ;-)

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

appreciate it!

[@kw4093-v3p]

This was actually a pretty good summary of the year!

[@michelvdhoek]

Phil, I juste wanted to say hello from the caribbean island of Curaçao! Keep the videos coming!

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

thanks over in curaçao!

[@barryvercueil2346]

Keep up the good work. Cheers

[@MarylandFarmer.]

Thanks for the fun interesting way you tell stuff. Look forward to what you have coming in 2025!

[@aghaahmedullah8368]

what a brilliant video... absolutely loved it.

[@Sainigma]

This really puts the whole year in perspective.. Some of this stuff already feels like it happened a lifetime ago!

[@krysnb84]

I didn’t know about the whole Larry David/Elmo drama - lol poor Elmo - I kinda forgot how weird this year was, thx! 😅

[@Gregemio]

2024 aka "The future" where everything is a slightly more crappy version of something from the past !!!!!! Here`s to a crappy 2025 ~ Wish us luck.

[@PlopTop]

Not super related, but I was coincidentally going to Amsterdam not too long after your escape room video dropped so I decided to do Sherlocked with a few friends. It really was excellent and I could see why they almost went bankrupt making it. It was my friends' first escape game so it's all downhill from here for them. Thanks for the escape room video, and your others too!

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

this warms my heart to hear!!

[@koob1413]

the second thumbnail is much nicer, thanks for changing it.

[@fiziktetrinet2330]

“And is that a good feeling?” 😂

[@Howtown]

this is a gift

[@RoxYgen03]

Thanks Phil!

[@Recht_voor_zijn_raap]

Every single day I think they can't get more insane. And every single day they continue to prove me wrong.

[@Desi_Midget]

Here before it goes viral 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯

[@AZaqZaqProduction]

I don't know how much irony you're trying to imbue when you cite videos from Twitter as coming from "X: The Everything App," but I'm enjoying it nonetheless.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

i like to imagine linda yaccarino saying it each time it comes on screen

[@eldar6267]

I would love to see this for every year for the past 30 years

[@Isaac-x8p2i]

This year was something for sure. I feel like we'll remember a lot of stuff that happened 10 years from now randomly. It feels like it was the year that sort of showed a preview of a lot of things to come. Idk, though, just a thought.

[@Echuu]

Great recap!

[@MangaSockAttack]

Who can forget the Typhlosion Pokemon data leaks ? Nice video Phil!

[@gavinrode9153]

Phil this was AWESOME AAAAAAAAA thx!!

[@RedUmbre]

Phil is pulling a videogamedunkey and making a video thats just a funny montage that speaks for itself

[@sassiejoan]

Good vid, I’d love to see a global rewind!

[@wave_breakr]

Spectacular video. I was super underwhelmed by vox’s recap which is usually good. Also just wanted to say thank you for the state of channel video, I find it incredibly helpful as an aspiring journalist

[@judelarkin2883]

OMG, just let an advertisement for a Batman kitchen knife play for a minute while I thought it was part of the weird things of 2024 compilation. Everything is weird.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

hahahah i have now watched an unboxing video of this and deeply regret not including it

[@DavidLimofLimReport]

Happy new year Phil!! Here's to 2025!!! And more crazy stories. Just please no world war 3

[@doccloudacnh]

Your rewind video was a little better and longer than Vox's, very nice job my guy!

[@distantcomets]

Thanks @Philedwards. It really was insane.

[@lauran6184]

You could do one on the Olympics alone. Lol

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

very true! left a few out too!

[@Skittenmeow]

Weird year. I had multiple brushes with death from autonomic dysfunction. I also started a relationship with the most wonderful understanding creature who lives interstate. 2025 will be a team effort for the first time in a long time. I'm looking forward to what you share. Thanks Phil

[@DarthVader-di4sz]

Can’t believe the “secret tunnels” in Brooklyn made the cut.

[@WanJae42]

Somehow, having a bunch of people look at the set of material, and agree it's weird makes me a bit more comfortable that we all aren't losing our minds. Well, yet.

[@Myne1001]

The two big muppets of 2024: Elmo and Raygun

[@thomasshakelton]

The Thumbnail is bad didn’t even know it was you Phil and I always look forward to your uploads.

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

noted!

[@DrewHerrema]

The only video of yours I couldn't finish. Expirencing 2024 once was bad enough.

[@dirtypure2023]

I think 2025 is only gonna be weirder tbh Great clips, Phil

[@BrendanMillerExplains]

I loved this!

[@dustyrabbit9234]

Oh no!!! Forgot the Elmo getting a speeding ticket in Germany!

[@zippersocks]

Makes me wonder what kind of fresh hell 2025 will bring.

[@pyeitme508]

Yeah this year is nuts 🤣🔩

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

good thing you have the wrench

[@flow6156]

I really like that you're doing your own thing now man :) to be fair, more of a 2024 in the USA, in six minutes :D

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

yeah - i feel like my tonal radar declines the further i go from the us - hard to know what's actually weird and what's xenophobic if i go too international

[@JenniferKMorin]

poor Raygun being the thumbnail. girl has been a mockery for months and now she's like the poster child of 2024 weirdness. honestly if i were her, i'd just laugh along.

[@yass123]

@0:27 Marquez made it😂

[@eruno_]

Bros driving

[@AuntieHauntieGames]

You leave Gawr Gura alone 😭😭😭

[@LaminimEnterprise]

It's nice to be here early lol

[@FloydMaxwell]

Thanks for a year of great videos, Phil. Best in 2025.

[@anthonidanowski9404]

i grew alot in my hobbies in 2024. im pretty sure its because i was using them to cope with the state of the world currently. ill probably get even better at them next year it seems.

[@ndidgenous]

We're all actors on a stage👌

[@matt.stevick]

great video

[@koalanefelibato4365]

I saw this video recomended in my feed with the previous thumbnail of nightmare wonka and thought "ugh, must be some slop channel, not interested" and now I saw it with the new thumbnail and went "oh, cool! A new Phil video"

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

haha noted!

[@matt.stevick]

best year of my life no doubt 📈🇺🇸

[@upinsmoketour2385]

What's the name of the song that starts at 5:12?

[@PhilEdwardsInc]

johnny-harris-x-tom-fox.disco.ac/cat/1632843844/track/128662673

[@Xatzimi]

2:38 I REALLY didn't expect to see Hololive here of all places

[@ShrimplyTheSilliest]

Since 2020 Everything's just been getting weirder and weirder

[@James-z9x9k]

Trump interviewing Theo von was the best part of the year. A president and an ex cocaine addict.

[@danboy12342]

2:40 GURA!

[@lukecwolf]

It will never cease to amaze me how we made a breakthrough in quantum computing and everyone from google to the reddit comment made it really weird.