Last month, YouTube put out a list that claimed to show the "top trending" music videos of 2021. We're here to tell you that this list is a hoax.
Not only does it omit several of the most watched videos of the year, it's not even ordered based on view count. Say what?! Yes.
Here is the actual list of the most watched music videos from 2021:
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1
2.2B views -
2
1.1B views -
3
966.0M views -
4
889.0M views -
5
728.7M views -
6
1.1B views -
7
639.7M views -
8
730.6M views -
9
537.0M views -
10
637.5M views
And here is YouTube's bogus list:
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1
464.5M views -
2
2.2B views
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3
639.7M views
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4
277.2M views -
5
257.5M views -
6
210.4M views -
7
966.0M views
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8
336.0M views -
9
637.5M views
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10
336.1M views
We're not sure why more people aren't talking about this major conspiracy in the world of music video view counts, and we're damn not sure what YouTube is trying to pull, but either way we're blowing the lid off of the whole charade!
YouTube tries to hide behind a loophole, claiming these are the "top trending" videos of the year and not the "most popular," but no one asked for a pretend metric that YouTube invented. It's undemocratic and unAmerican and we're calling on the music video community to publicly denounce this list as a lie.
Send us a tip if you have a theory about why YouTube lied to the whole ass internet. And for anyone who is outranged, especially any musicians who were unfairly left off the YouTube list, we made you this very funny custom meme to share.
