Google's Year-End Wrap-Up Video Gets Ripped Over 'Embarrassing' Omissions
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Critics said the company missed the mark with its annual "Year in Search" video.
Google dropped its “Year in Search” video for 2025 on Monday and some internet users aren’t liking the results. (You can watch it here.)
The year-end wrap-up video, which Google has released annually since 2010, has typically featured clips of trends and major events, such as 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, the removal of the Confederate battle flag flying outside the South Carolina state Capitol and families reuniting at the U.S.-Mexico border. The annual video has also looped in clips of someone coming out as transgender and footage from the 2017 Women’s March on the day after Donald Trump’s first inauguration.
Google billed this year’s recap video as showcasing ways people “reimagined their worlds” and featured its typical assortment of pop culture clips — ranging from Lady Gaga and Lububus — before flipping to praise artificial intelligence.
The 2025 video also included footage from the Southern California wildfires, Trump shaking hands with first responders while touring the damage from the Central Texas floods and Erika Kirk declaring that she was choosing “courage” and “family” during the memorial service for her late husband, controversial podcaster Charlie Kirk.
On Monday, a number of YouTubers shared comments claiming this year’s video missed the mark and pointed out the lack of clips on wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan. It also failed to cover Trump’s immigration crackdown as well as the massive No Kings protests against the president.
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