YouTube Rewind: The Biggest Youtube Videos Of 2018 Are Here

Youtube is, let’s face it, extremely weird, so looking back on the top video trends of the year will always be a deeply baffling experience. But it must be noted that 2018 did seem weirder than last year, which was, in turn, weirder than the year before. So maybe we’ll just keep falling down this bizarro rabbit hole for the rest of our lives, till the top video of 2045 is like, someone banging their head against a wall for half an hour in slow-mo.

Anyway, according to Youtube, the most-streamed video of 2018 was Kylie Jenner’s ‘To Our Daughter”, and it’s not hard to see why. That one of the most photographed women in the entire world managed to hide a whole-ass pregnancy still feels like a magic trick, tbh, and Jenner deserves all 76 million of the views she got for hiding from paps.

But it’s also a sign of Youtube’s weirdness that the second top video was a previously unheard of young boy standing in a Walmart,  looking quite a bit like Woody from Toy Story, and yodelling his hee-haw heart out.

Yes, that’s right: Australia’s second most watched Youtube video was of Mason Ramsey, the viral country star and all-around meme lord, toe-tappin’ his way to fame.

For the record, Mason is a trend I can entirely get behind. I won’t be bored of the lad for at least another couple of decades, by which stage I expect he’ll be a tattooed billionaire hip-hop/country star.

Trailing behind Mason was a teary, surprisingly upbeat break-up video from Liza Koshy and David Dobrik; a hilarious bad lip reading of the Royal Wedding; and whatever the hell you would call the video where Logan Paul sat in front of a camera and apologised for filming an honest to god dead body for the sake of his pre-teen audience.

Elsewhere, the Australian Youtube channel with the biggest growth in 2018 goes to Fun With Alicia, which is a little shocking when you come to realise that its a channel run by a literal child. Fun With Alicia has over a million subscribers, and according to the social metric website Social Blade could be making its young star $147k a month. Fun indeed!

For an in-depth breakdown of the year’s Youtube trends and stars, check out the Youtube Rewind video here:

This year, control over the video has been handed over to the Youtube stars themselves, which might explain why it’s particularly bug-nuts.