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Sep 17, 2026
Kevin AlloccaGUEST
It wasn't really until you started to get to like 2014, 2015, where you started to be like, okay, there's a pretty diverse.
Kevin AlloccaGUEST
I remember I used to work on YouTube, this thing called YouTube Rewind, which was like a recap of the things that happened on that year on youtube and famously became the most disliked video in the history of the internet at the end of the thing but like that's a whole other story but the like you know we used to part of the problem part of the thing that was really unique about that is like the early ones you could just get all the big creators on youtube in a room all the ones that were kind of making it you can get them all in a room and like make a video with them and do that but like by the time you get to 2014 2015 like it's impossible to do that and there's so many different niches and stuff that have popped up that you started to say okay there's a lot more opportunity in this space and you start to see a lot of money more flowing in as well
Laura BrownHOST
What have you learned about, and this is specifically your job, but what have you learned about attention? And what have you learned about attention that pleases you? And what about attention that depresses you? Because the internet is a complete, almost split down the middle, depending on the day, combination of both.
Kevin AlloccaGUEST
I talked to a lot of people who have this sort of lament this whole, the loss of attention span that the internet has brought, but I actually just don't, that I don't believe in.
JaredHOST
And, like, I wasn't actually even focusing, but I realized I was kind of looking straight down.
JaredHOST
You'll be like Will Smith with the YouTube Rewind.
JaredHOST
That's hot.
JaredHOST
Right as I looked up because I realized what I was doing, that's when you made direct eye contact with me and I thought you understood at that moment.
Anthony PadillaGUEST
went on a sailboat one time.
Anthony PadillaGUEST
Oh, wait, I just remembered YouTube Rewind at one point, they had us on a little boat out in the ocean.
Courtney MillerGUEST
That was a little yacht.
Anthony PadillaGUEST
It was a little yacht.
Vito GesualdiHOST
And I'm like, God fucking damn it.
Vito GesualdiHOST
The other one was, remember the YouTube Rewind that everybody hated and they stopped doing YouTube Rewind? Oh, that was
Tommy CGUEST
so funny.
Tommy CGUEST
The one with Will Smith.
Vito GesualdiHOST
Fuck that guy.
Vito GesualdiHOST
And I said, I wonder what that guy's been up to, man.
Vito GesualdiHOST
Did he make it in L.A.? And I looked up his IMDb, and it said, directed that YouTube rewind everybody fucking hated.
Vito GesualdiHOST
And