Unraveling YouTube Rewind

Having allowed YouTube to raise her children, Karen now turns to Elizabeth to explain it all to her, through the lens (eventually) of the annual Rewind video.

Show Notes

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• YouTube usage and revenue stats
• Unraveled, especially The Perfect PokéRap
• Hank Green science videos
• You Suck at Cooking, who was nice on Instagram
• Copyright suit hits Canadian schools
• Audacity tutorials are the best
• KSI vs Logan Paul
• December’s YouTube walkout
• Jon listens to CBC, resulting in a callback to our CanCon episode
• Children’s Online Protection of Privacy Act
• YouTube Rewind playlist
• Shoutout to Claire, giver of cookies, maker of Unbelts
• Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel — not the same guy
• jacksfilms lampoons the Pauls’ Rewind appearance
• WatchMojo ranking of Rewind
• Forget who PewDiePie is? If only, but here’s when we talked about him before

We meant to go short — we ended up going long. Thanks for sticking with us, through this and two years’ worth of That’s a Thing?!!

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A sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20. In each episode, Elizabeth, a teenager, explains a thing to Karen, her mother. And Karen tells Elizabeth how that thing relates to something she knows. Maybe.