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The video site turns to its biggest stars for crazy, self-referential 2012 mashup

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Imagine the YouTube video to end all YouTube videos—a relentlessly goofy, kitchen-sink montage that stuffs in layer upon layer of pop-culture references, inside jokes and quirky Internet stars.

For 2012's "Rewind," a look back at the year's biggest YouTube hits, YouTube made just that video. The clip includes more visual remixing and geeky-cool allusions than we could mention here (and surely, we're missing plenty). Suffice it to say, you might find—at the moment when Psy's "Gangnam Style" reprises at the clip's end in a mashup with Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"—that your head might want to explode in the most shamefully delighted way conceivable.

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