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**Content:** YouTubers React to YouTube Rewind 2015
**Key Points:**
1. **YouTube Rewind Reaction**: The YouTubers enthusiastically react to the 2015 YouTube Rewind video, enjoying the nostalgia, dance moves, and cameos from various creators.
2. **Personal Experience**: One participant shares their experience of being featured in the Rewind, describing it as a "rite of passage" and expressing gratitude for the opportunity.
3. **YouTube Red (now YouTube Premium) Discussion**: The group discusses the then-newly announced YouTube Red, with mixed feelings about its potential impact on creator income, but overall seeing it as a positive development for audiences.
4. **2015 Memories and Hopes for 2016**: Participants share their most memorable moments from 2015 (e.g., hitting milestones, releasing books, and coming out) and hopes for 2016, including improvements to YouTube's algorithm and comment section.
5. **Predictions for YouTube's Future**: The YouTubers predict YouTube will continue to grow, surpass traditional TV, and lead to greater respect for creators, with some hoping for a return to more light-hearted, humorous content.
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1. **Document format**: The text is in a document format with timestamps.
2. **Content topic**: The content discusses YouTube Rewind, a yearly recap by YouTube.
3.. **Year in focus**: The year primarily discussed in the context of YouTube Rewind is 2015.
4. **YouTube Red announcement**: In 2015, YouTube announced YouTube Red, a service allowing ad-free videos.
5. **YouTube Red impact**: The announcement raised concerns among creators about potential income loss.
6. **YouTube Red benefits**: It was noted that YouTube Red could be beneficial for audiences.
7. **Creation of original content**: YouTube Red enables creators to produce original content on the platform.
8. **Participant's YouTube milestones**:
* Hit 2 billion views.
* Moved into a new studio.
* Shot a first feature film.
* Reached 1 million subscribers (on December 31st).
* Went on tour.
* Appeared on MTV with a show called "Todrick".
* Came out publicly in 2015.
* Had a New York Times best-selling book.
* Participated in a significant YouTube marketing campaign.
* Won a Teen Choice Award.
* Got married.
9. **Desired platform improvements**:
* Better comment section management.
* Reduction of spam comments.
* Ability to customize end screens for promotions.
* Clarity on the algorithm's impact on upload frequency.
* Improvement of the subscription box to reduce clutter.
10. **Future prediction for YouTube (fact of prediction, not the prediction itself)**:
* A prediction was made about YouTube's future growth and influence by the end of the next year (2016).
**Note**: Facts about personal opinions, feelings, or speculative predictions (beyond the fact that a prediction was made) are excluded as per your request.