YouTube’s End-of-the-Year Video Is Insanely Comprehensive, and Gleeful to a Fault

Salt Bae, fidget spinners and more than 300 stars

It’s impossible to keep track of all of the pop culture references, memes and famous faces in YouTube’s latest Rewind video.

The seven-minute long effort immerses you in the culture of 2017, with an introduction by Stephen Colbert. While there are references to some of the devastation of the year—news footage of hurricanes, for instance—YouTube mostly keeps things upbeat, colorful, goofy. It’s odd.

To revisit 2017 through YouTube’s lens is to see a year of cheer, slime, Daddy Yankee and Salt Bae.

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