Year in Search 2011: Year In Review

See how the World Searched with Google's 2011 Zeitgeist:
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Music: "Sooner or Later" by Mat Kearney
Produced by Whirled Creative with Director Scott Chan
"Soldier surprises mom" clip courtesy of the National Geographic Channel, Siskell/Jacobs Productions and Joseph Desira.

[@NohandlesR]

It’s Dec 12, 2018 and this is still my favorite Video.

[@JoshuaBabasa]

Same bro!

[@king_sutter]

I come back to this one every year. They simply can't top it

[@naniii7940]

8 years, 11 months, and 29 days in (December 29, 2018) and I have determined this country is officially going down the toilet.

[@isabellarosado6410]

Sup its 2 January 2019! My favorite one is 2017

[@danielyantanicoto1568]

Me too

[@christiangonzales7429]

2011 was the year I graduated high school. It's nice to be able to go back in time to revisit for a little while with this video.

[@abilmut]

Me first time watching this video & yeah i automatically remember what grade or event that i’m in in this year

[@christineraye21]

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[@rainieropazo2010]

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[@МаринаВовченко-щ6н]

😊😅 1:15

[@fachrul3061]

It's 2020 now, and this is still my favorite

[@jaalaj6610]

It is 2021 now, and this is still my favourite. ❤️🙂

[@lusevizions]

Throughout the beginning of these videos 2010-2015 they lowkey showed off their platform and what their search engine and features they had.. great marketing

[@tor693]

Rip world 😭❤

[@tor693]

2011 Rip world of is Google chrome 😢

[@jodejo1]

It is 2021

[@seanskoog388]

11 years later, and I still think this is the best year in search of them all.

[@patrickmiller5125]

By far

[@Swastik77_]

Blumove

[@marcuslevis]

That song!

[@hajarmrabti2100]

Thank god am not alone !

[@seriouscyrus6982]

And your comment says 11 days ago. Coincidence? I think not lol

[@oiMarkusv]

Almost 12 years later and this is still the best google yearly review...

[@НиколайЕрохин-й1ъ]

😊 😊 😊 😊

[@吉原正信]

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[@hussainch323]

​@@吉原正信xxx

[@hussainch323]

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[@BenjaminGuerrero-jc9xs]

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[@rtrcn34]

This message probably won’t be read by anyone but still. 2011 Zeitgeist reminds me of the last New Years eve we celebrated together with mom and dad, after that year they separated. This beautiful song makes me feel chills everytime I’m seeing that video. It was sweet 2011 with its good and bad moments, we were young and careless. I just wanted to share my feelings with you guys, I believe many of you are feeling the same😉 (maybe not the parents part, but some warm childhood flashbacks). Thanks for reading this, sorry for being emotional🙂

[@rcampbell31]

It was read and emotions are a good thing. Keep feeling :)

[@goodtrip3520]

Thanks, you write my thoughts

[@goodtrip3520]

@Tim Balcom what?

[@alexandravenitelli9014]

Eu li a mensagem amei estou lisonjeada Gratidão Universal

[@kathleenpatterson7161]

Po ,

[@ColeODriscoll]

In 2015, this is still my favourite one. Google did great at the 2011 edition!

Its' true. There not as this zeitgeizt.

[@4ldo.]

My favourite too

[@rudirouzan2833]

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[@sitikhadijah6559]

😨

[@juanguerra9899]

riscoll x

[@nilsonsls]

2014, and it's still the best Zeitgeist video. I don't know if the years are getting worse or if Google are forgetting how to make good videos.

[@rzcetification9248]

VERY AGREE¡¡¡¡¡ When Google put the new video I come here to see this LOL, This made me cried :(

[@SuperbDroid]

***** yeah me too :'(

[@maxgoals]

2011 still the best one !

[@SuperbDroid]

Yeah the best ever.. Lol this 2011 make me cried

[@LuisRodriguez-gb4dk]

or maybe because in 2011 many in the world went out and protested economic injustice, tyranny. and when disaster strikes we come together to help others in need. in ways i'm saying the world was united than what we are now. so i believe the years are worsening.

[@avalondeluxe]

2009-2011 was some of the best years of my life. This makes me cry so much.

[@НадеждаВасильева-с1з]

2007-2013 amazing times

[@rockycomet4587]

@@НадеждаВасильева-с1з I second that.

[@vezavezaaa]

Same

[@victorymusic5705]

me too

[@anakarmallick6743]

@@vezavezaaa Ch c

[@Lucia-io3dn]

2011 is so emotional to me- Best year of my life, and I was only 12 turning 13. The last year of my childhood, the last chance I got to see the world with innocent eyes. I still long for that year.

[@thimydungchau5501]

🌍🥁

[@MKamranmalookh]

❤

[@EasternMerchant]

2011 was the year I became unemployed because the company went out of business, but it was the greatest year of my life because, for the first time in my life, I got to spend quality time with my family, friends, see the beautiful earth, and realize there's more to life than just working my life away.

[@hubertlaurent921]

Jr

[@elstupidproduction]

Don't know why, but this made me tear up and want to cry

[@brookecoy4071]

Ik me too...

[@lamitb12]

i thought i was the only one

[@MrLucascanuto]

Glad I'm not alone on this

[@normelmer6655]

Lamitb12

[@srgapg]

maybe because of the song. Anyway, my favorite zietgeist and my favorite year of my life!

[@NarutoHugsMikasa]

The world had its best during 2011-2016. It's always amazing to see how it started. I miss my childhood and teenage so much.

[@jehanbhathena6270]

The years 2010-2016 make me feel the most nostalgic,I lost some of my closest relatives in that period,just want the good school days back :(

[@serenitywalker7363]

Is anyone else crying from watching these but don't know why....

[@billyLego4855]

We miss this world

[@jacksonsouza8447]

​@bil😢lyjolly4855

[@kurotsunookegom2957]

Who here after watching The 2020 year in Search? In My opinión this is the best year in search

[@moreloveforme]

yes i AM

[@keaie8681]

opinión

[@Grey_197]

2019 is too good bro

[@pointyball2916]

This is still by far my favorite year in review video, so much hope and love in this video the song choice was beautiful. Humanity at its best

[@DanishKingKong]

I keep coming back to this. This was by far the best Zeitgeist video.

[@andreaburrell2695]

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[@andreaburrell2695]

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[@andreaburrell2695]

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[@andreaburrell2695]

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[@andreaburrell2695]

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[@beigegaming9905]

This is December 31st, 2020. Here’s to 2021. Hopefully it can be a better year

[@lucylukose4645]

How do feel about this now?

[@beigegaming9905]

@@lucylukose4645 much better year. I got with the girl of my dreams, planning out a year worth of travels (going to all 50 states) and I have finally felt like I’ve gotten things figured out. Dropped out of college last year when it went to online and I couldn’t keep up, felt awful to quit but it feels great to live for something again

[@lucylukose4645]

@@beigegaming9905 that’s great I’m glad this year was better for you

[@MountandbladeSteppeNomad]

@@beigegaming9905 heres to u my guy!

[@beigegaming9905]

@@MountandbladeSteppeNomad here’s to you 🥂

[@spaceshuttletomars]

This makes me cry all the time. I graduated in 2011 and it was probably the best year of my life with all the ups and downs.

[@privatezeron]

This is my favorite one honestly.

[@jesusgirl4516]

+zeron82411 Best one tbh.

[@babyboi1119]

I always get teary eyed with this one. I thinks it's just the music. Lol

[@jessetorres8738]

I was inspired by this video to make a slideshow of photos of my parents for their 25th wedding anniversary and I used this song in its entirety as the background music. Check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eITNonx9q719sLc

[@Chillaaaaxxx]

definitely the best one they've ever done. This thing still chokes me up. Just helps you see the beauty that is the world a little easier.

[@theRenjie]

coming from the 2018 one, could not agree more...

[@brandonxing9546]

Sometimes I come here just to hear Steve tell me to "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish"

[@kikik.6118]

Brandon Xing So do I. 💚

[@akshatshah3717]

Sometimes I come here to remember that we used to have a leader instead of a puppet

[@oiMarkusv]

@@akshatshah3717 i come here because sometimes with all this political correctness in the media we have forgot that we actually could get along without being offended by something it was only 2011 and we werent perfect but we were all happy with what little we had...

[@akshatshah3717]

@@oiMarkusv The past is always better, ain't it? I'm not ruining this video for politics anymore than what I already have. Wbu?

[@oiMarkusv]

@@akshatshah3717 i want nothing to do with anything political but I'm british and there is something very unique currently going on in Europe at the moment that has made me just wish I could just hit fast forward for the next 100 years or so.... Im only 21 but times seemed so much simpler in 2011 it didn't matter where people came from or what their political affiliation was everyone believed in the common values of the human life... My girlfriend is a indian Sikh and we love our unique British identity of multiculturalism but it genuinely seems like political correctness has been took to far by some people in my continent...

[@rzcification]

2016, and this is the best.., waiting for 2016 zeitgeist

[@iamcre8ive]

Why this randomly appeared on my recommended on December 2019? Oh and by the way was awesome see again the stuff that happened in 2011 and the old Google layout... :)

[@cody2283]

Agreed

[@cody2283]

Also 62 people AT LEAST are whatching this in 2019 XD

[@iamcre8ive]

HECK... Only now I saw how many people have liked my comment... Oh wow... :0

[@tab4691]

Steve Jobs hit different

[@LTarts23]

I'm Cre8tive. Yea man. Purer times :,)

[@usualavantgasp]

2021 is a couple weeks away, a start of a new decade, feel good to have a moment to look back

[@yurikohorigoshi2259]

I started watching old Google rewinds and I'm actually crying because I see how people were, are and will strong whatever is going on, and how proud we are

[@TuấnThạch-e1v]

Tôi sẽ o quên ngày tháng năm ấy thú vị thật😂😂😂😂

[@farisjihadddd]

2019 and I'm still coming back here to watch this masterpiece. love the song, the video and everything about 2011

[@TheGirlsbus]

and we thought 2011 is the hardest year

[@folibar662]

@@TheGirlsbusp

[@relei]

It seems that people had hope in peace back then...

[@Mostaadel]

Totally

[@SgtJoeSmith]

Its all gone now

[@wynkss]

It’s only gotten worse my friends

[@estrial4711]

And worse.

[@seanpruitt6801]

@@wynkss hahaha so true it shall pass too you just have to belive

[@Kiichyy]

My God... it's 2017 and it still bough me to tears. This is one of my favorites videos of all time. Great job, Google :)

[@mocha_min5520]

this makes me think how much i love all the people on this earth i love all of you

[@sterlingm9279]

I remember 2010/2011 new years eve I was partying my last time back home before moving. Was one of the most difficult moments in my young life. I'd give my most valued possession to go back one decade and relive everything, just embrace it all over again. Make even better memories too.

[@samyreyad8662]

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[@quinncowden2711]

In 2015 I'm looking back and all this seems like it was so far away... It was only 4 years. How much things have changed cence then.

[@PHaTSquadGaming]

+Adsız Adam next thing we need to invent:TIME TRAVEL

[@faridgamarani72]

music videos of Advanced

[@boureimagary4782]

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[@GrubHuncher]

Not to sound like a douchebag but it was way better. PC culture was only just starting, and the games were better, MW2, RDR, Skyrim. So much great stuff.

[@carolineburke5264]

St staff

[@MultiPurposeReviewer]

These make me tear up every time. That last image alone of the kid high fiving the soldier alone would do it.

[@latashanicole4697]

2023 now and 2011 is still the best Google year in search. That was one hell of a year.

[@SueDevilish]

2020 and still can't get over how much I love this video ❤️

[@TuấnThạch-e1v]

Ok🎉

[@andyedgardo]

Time passes, but i still crying with this song. The feelings when i see this video are... strange.

[@andreaswidham3607]

It makes me both smile and cry over how much hope there was that year. So much of it would fall apart in later years, but for short while, even with all the problems and misery, the future looked bright.

[@KazeHorse]

And it just kept getting worse.

[@GrahamPhelan]

I feel like we had a peak in 2011, smartphones existed but we weren't addicted to them, popular music was more varied as it wasn't all dance music like today, for me it was a year when I learned some lessons but it was overall a beautiful year.

[@mariazavala8860]

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[@heinoustentacles5719]

you said this only 3 years after 2011. What exactly happened?

[@LinoNoble1]

To me. The most touching part of this video was. Son: - Dad, I'm gay. Do you still love me? Dad: - I still live you son. Very touching. ☺

[@tilsgee]

Where? Timestamp please

[@expwosive]

@@tilsgee 2:32

[@mannotsqluie2423]

Je ne sais pas

[@kemhendrick1256]

@Jayy Menace kzbin.info/aero/RDCLAK5uy_kmPRjHDECIcuVwnKsx2Ng7fyNgFKWNJFs

[@kemhendrick1256]

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[@lawalfaruk8471]

We made it! Who’s here after 2019?

[@praz.official]

You know, what really makes this video is the music, and the part it plays in delivering the message across. "Sooner or Later", of course, totally fit with Google's theme for this video, and the way they put it together to fit with the song is genius. I think that's why people say, that even to this day, Year in Search 2011 was the best one.

[@royjuarez8062]

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[@johndusing9010]

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[@johndusing9010]

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[@dileeppatel4403]

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[@dileeppatel4403]

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[@tiak5138]

we have come a long way. this world has changed and not in the way i thought it would.

[@abuzar1211]

Who else believes this was the best Google search rewind video ever?

[@kseries1981]

The video of the women hearing for the first time and the picture of the dog next to the fallen Navy Seal really got to me. Well done Google

[@willehrensperger]

My year in review 2021 An Ehrensperger Edit & Production: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5yxamp_npaBatU

[@bayashi23]

00:19 I experienced 3.11 in Japan when I was 27 years old. I'll never forget everyone who helped to Japan. ARIGATO. And I married my wife. So 2011 is an unforgettable year to me.

[@Amar-fs7cf]

0:19

[@babyboi1119]

Thank you Google, for giving us a way to quickly relive the years best and worst moments and to never forget.

[@toumimaro]

In 2011 people came together that was the best part for me.

[@EchoesAct4]

The song choice couldn't have been better.

[@Lucas-tt8sw]

Totally agree with you on that, it makes the video really emotional

[@Lucas-tt8sw]

Sooner or Later - Matt Kearney

[@jessetorres8738]

I was inspired by this video to make a slideshow of photos of my parents for their 25th wedding anniversary and I used this song in its entirety as the background music. Check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eITNonx9q719sLc

[@just_Backrooms_Videos]

@@Lucas-tt8sw jkjll

[@bertclair7392]

Judy Whitney was

[@Jwk2211]

Still the most beautiful Google Year in Review edition

[@Danielle-ov4rx]

10 years later. 2021 anyone?

[@menamemes2617]

yep

[@옴뇸뇸뇸-d4v]

2022 just now. happy new year!!

[@martinsubelj4669]

2024 here. 13 years later. I hate how time flies

[@RetroYoungen]

This makes me cry a little every time I see it, even three years later. Especially when I see that water falling over the side of the barrier in Japan, it just brings back the memory of watching it live on television and just... just cringing at the sight.

[@TuấnThạch-e1v]

Thời đại nào rồi bình thường thôi fen ❤❤❤

[@cefishb]

this one was so much better than 2013, i came back to watch it again.

[@MohamedShou]

The best year review ever made. Always come back to this 👍🏾😁

[@angadsingh3006]

2011 edition was the best one !!!

[@acidicyto2k844]

Angad Singh I totally agree

[@ilegitlogan]

I have been watching this for almost a year now. It's almost 2013, but 2011 was such a beautiful year that I just keep coming back.

[@Democrities]

Almost a year later it still gives me chills

[@arsenix8401]

There will never be a better decade than the 2010's

[@meddarkk5575]

yeah u right

[@deprovetrujillo129]

Y. Ćcv. 6.

[@alfredalo9562]

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[@alfredalo9562]

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[@alfredalo9562]

watay

[@Candy1015790]

This is probably the best year in review video google has ever done. I burst into tears every time I watch this. Whoever made this, I give you a virtual high-five. :)

[@kseries1981]

me too, I think it has something to do with the music

[@Candy1015790]

Now that you say it maybe you're right

[@TuấnThạch-e1v]

Vậy là tụi mình có chung thần giao cách cảm à 😅😅😅

[@bobo13ization]

Zeitgeist 2011 my favourite so far Can't wait for 2016 edition

[@majorbob6349]

it came out 2 hours ago...

[@bobo13ization]

Major Bob okay thankyou bro

[@majorbob6349]

brian münchen np :)

[@MrKingpenguin123]

2011 is the best zeitgeist, and one the best years. Hopefully we have more like that in the future

[@見玉晋也]

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[@andrewgonzalez4230]

Has that come to be so far, to you?

[@maagee123maagee2]

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[@umarabubaker7619]

2011!! I was still in high school, since then I have graduated from college and working.. Amazing how time flies.. Feels just like yesterday!!

[@jultech]

This video is way better than the 2013 one!

[@AbdullahJaja-d1x]

2:51 2:51 2:51

[@itsdabbas]

Stay hungry stay foolish, thank you. R.I.P Steve jobs 😔🙏☝

[@marcglaser8834]

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[@deedr1234]

“Sooner or later”

[@TheYuuki03]

Thank you a lot of support in the Great East Japan Earthquake from Japan

[@musaka15]

Watching this on 31/12/22 and 27 minutes before it's 2023, just to see how far we've come💕

[@douglasdrumond]

I still get emotional from zeitgeist 2011.

[@FieryPhoenix7]

Google has yet to beat this one, 4 years later. Let's make the 2015 version an even better one.

[@DreamsOfLegend]

Writing this in October 2020, this is the best one Google ever did. The music and the video was amazing. Plus Google+ was still around... For the people of the past: 2020 Facebook is HORRIBLE 😥

[@apexcrypto01]

Ehhh 2013 is arguably better

[@Kanat_Kalmen]

I am watching it on December 31th 2021. Another decade is about to fly away. Hope 2022 will be the beginning of the best in human's history.

[@whatfurqanknows]

the ‘Steve Jobs’ part was purely nice.

[@kiran-thetributechannel]

And this is from Google

[@whatfurqanknows]

@@kiran-thetributechannel yeah, that's wholesome.

[@kiran-thetributechannel]

@@whatfurqanknows fun fact. Steve was the mentor of Google's founders and CEOs and he was even offered a CEO position at Google in 2003

[@JoeyRos]

i cant tell if the world got better or worse in 2015 but il be damn sure that google will make a video showing the good stuff and i thank them like hell for that

[@erauprcwa]

+Joey Ros After this past weeks events in the United States and the world, good news is sparse right now...

[@serhumano3]

+Joey Ros You are so very right. Google knows how to make videos.

[@nesniping6378]

2015 video was disappointing

[@JoeyRos]

+NE Sniping yea i thought so to

[@bluevelvetinyourarea]

Ah, 2011. What an amazing year. Sometimes I wish I could go back to those days. I was 15 in 2011 and it was a good time

[@user480fqzdidkeekwkek]

🥲

[@ortucece]

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[@danielwga6356]

The world started to went downhill since 2011, at least for me, I wish I could go back to the good old days and live those days forever. Sometimes I cry when I remember how good thos years were for me

[@kudzaidhodho]

This is way better than the 2015 video

[@jairar2587]

No year can top 2011. Best year of all time ❤️❤️❤️

[@cbrandom1930]

It’s 2020 and I was born in 2004 and wow I’m amazed I didn’t know so many important things happened in 2011

[@vizmohanan]

I come here every year when Google publishes the Year In Search video. That music of Mat Kearney gives me goosebumps always! This is by far the best Zeitgeist video..

[@the_o_man]

Damn, looking back at the Zeitgeists for 2010-2012, they had a lot more in their vids compared to 2013 onwards.

[@gfde7421]

2011... my fav year, even it was hard and sad for me, but this year changed a lot... thanks for this video!

[@TheRickyGoesToBed]

2011 was awsome and this review is still the best out of all!

[@AnneGeddesFan]

The best. I come back to revisit this one each year after watching the most recent one.

[@rall6556]

Yeah same

[@char124eve]

Still the best zeitgeist ever. 2015's one was so disappointing...

[@safsaf1817]

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[@safsaf1817]

مرحبا بكم

[@celt2453]

The best one they've ever made. I always return.

[@alangatsby3881]

the song plays a big part in it

[@SergioEmanuels]

Still is best Google Year in Review. Eventhough many adversities, still so inspiring! Make review of 2018 also inspirational.

[@maddietillem6778]

Wow. I love the year in search videos. They always give me hope in humanity.

[@duanneangeles6323]

6778

[@AnaPodcastDaily]

December 2020 anyone?

[@--------_]

Wooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

[@itsme_Deepak]

2011 was not not just a year It was an emotions..❤❤

[@saadmubarak7248]

2011 it's a beautiful year for everyone .. THANK YOU 😎🤘🌹🖤❤

[@mrsujon3753]

12 days left for 2020 , I'm watching it right now.

[@whoseontrial]

I remember watching this on the last day of 2011. Can't believe it's nearly time for a new zeitgeist vid soon. This year has flown by incredibly fast.

[@neelkanth3002]

Yep, 10 years went by in a blink of the eye. Sigh

[@l-uuf-i]

@@neelkanth3002 so did our lives

[@xe_midnight]

9 years later : wtf have we gotten into

[@yourfellowhumanbeing2323]

oof

[@george22218]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, was the world 10 years ago.

[@sophe1015]

I'm here from 2020, just rewatching all theses videos to make myself cry. Everything's going to be okay. At the end of this year, we'll be able to watch our own Year In Search and see how much we've been through.

[@Jaxgotscared]

Well, if we survive

[@DancingBear2]

This is the best Year In Review Google has done by far. The entire composition makes you feel a sense of hope.

[@venkatthangi]

Is this the best year in search ever?

[@sangharshkale1151]

The year in reviews used to be so good. They used to focus on the entire world rather than just the US.

[@burritoshake]

this will always be my favorite one

[@zyawotha]

the best year in review google has ever made

[@lol70721]

beats the hell out of zeitgeist 2013

[@alenak5248]

zeitgeist 2013 sucks! they should make a new.

[@naniii7940]

beats the heccc out of yt rewind 2018

[@andrewfranke8728]

@@naniii7940 plop om oo loo o Omooloomplo Ooo o ooo

[@andrewfranke8728]

@Ashley Suarez oomoo

[@AsDd-lh1pb]

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[@captainjohnbrown5417]

Civilization might have peaked right around when this video was created. My god, we had it good back then...

[@ロット-d2y]

あの日からもうすぐで10年 世界のみんな ありがとう！ 日本より🇯🇵