The gamer was not impressed with YouTube’s initial attempt (Picture: Anas Chowdhury/PewDiePie)

PewDiePie has created an alternative YouTube Rewind following the huge amount of backlash received following the official video.

And it’s already got more likes than the official Rewind – the people have spoken.

With YouTube’s official video, Everyone Controls Rewind, becoming the most disliked video of all time, the floor was open for someone else to give it a shot.

Because it couldn’t really get any worse, right?

PewDiePie’s attempt, titled ‘YouTube Rewind 2018 but it’s actually good’ opens with the gamer – real name Felix Kjellberg – on his phone, mimicking Will Smith in the official video.

‘If I could control Rewind, I would want it to be an actual rewind,’ he says (the shade of it all).

It includes appearances from Avengers: Infinity War villain Thanos and Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, as well as countless references to 2018, on and off of YouTube.

Internet phenomenons like the obsession with tide pods, Kanye accidentally showing his phone pass code, and the KSI v Logan Paul boxing match all took pride of place.

It also features appearances from Internet stars Vsauce, Ninja, Mr Beast, Jake Paul, Lil Tay, Shane Dawson and Gabbie Hanna, with Felix himself taking the starring spot.

The remake also includes some pretty bizarre sights to the uninitiated, including dubious memes ‘Ugandan Knuckles’, ‘somebody toucha my spaghet’ and ‘they did surgery on a grape’.

PewDiePie’s T-Series diss track ‘Bitch Lasgna’ also features in the mash-up video, while it ends on an unexpected political note, with a reference to Article 13, the EU’s controversial new directive, which is set to crack down on copyright on the internet.

The video included references to 2018 that YouTube had missed, including the KSI v Logan Paul boxing match (Picture: Anas Chowdhury/ PewDiePie)

Featuring a tribute to those who have died in 2018, including Spongebob Squarepants creator Stephen Hillenburg, legendary scientist Stephen Hawking, and Marvel co-creator Stan Lee, the gamer also wrote: ‘We also lost some amazing people in 2018. But while they may be gone, they will always be remembered’.

Fellow YouTubers FlyingKitty, Grandayy and Dolan Dark are credited as helping to create the video.

Some viewers were furious when the Swedish gamer didn’t appear in YouTube’s official 2018 round-up video, while mainstream celebs like Will Smith were given screen time.

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The video went on to receive more than 14 million dislikes, overtaking Justin Bieber’s Baby as the most disliked video of all time, with YouTube still insisting it was ‘pleased’ with the results.

Turns out in the end it was left to Pewds to ‘give the people what they want’.

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