YouTube's Year in Review brings back memories of Kid President and the Fox

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If you believe YouTube's interpretation of 2013, the year belonged to The Fox, the Harlem Shake and, well, Miley Cyrus.

YouTube has brought together more than 50 YouTube stars and celebrities to celebrate their 2013 Year in Review, in a video featuring some of the biggest YouTube moments of the year.

The YouTube Rewind video features the likes of Kid President, who rose to popularity through inspiring videos on YouTube and eventually met President Obama; Jenna Marbles, who has over 11 million subscribers to her YouTube channel; and the TV personalities Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel.

The background music is a remix of 2013's biggest hits, and comes from DJ Earworm, another talent who has seen his fame erupt on YouTube.

You can see the video here:

Other things we learned from the YouTube Year in Review

• Kid President is officially the coolest kid on the block. This year alone he inspired millions, met Barack Obama and opened YouTube's Rewind video. His "pep talk" is my favourite video of the year.

• We won't forget the Harlem Shake for some time. It practically became a movement, with universities, offices and even army squads around the world uploading their own versions to YouTube.

• It's difficult to listen to Taylor Swift's Trouble without thinking of goats – so it makes sense that the producers of the YouTube Year in Review worked with 30 goats while creating the video.

The UK's biggest hits

The video-sharing website has also compiled lists of the most popular videos, from music to education, in different countries.

Here's the list:

• The UK's top trending video is entitled "How Animals Eat Their Food" by MisterEpic Mann, which is a series of ridiculous clips that sees the actors in fits of laughter towards the end of the clip.

• It was pretty easy to predict some of the clips in the list, which includes Tom Daley announcing he is in a same-sex relationship, Will Smith combining with Jazzy Jeff and Alfonso Ribeiro to sing the opening credits to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air on the Graham Norton Show and an army squad doing the Harlem Shake.

• There are a number of heartwarming videos that one might not think of as being particularly viral, such as the wedding speech of McFly's Tom Fletcher (which has nearly 12m views).

• Among the more viral videos from Ylvis and Psy, the list of most popular music videos in the UK included Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball and We Can't Stop and Wake Me Up by Avicii, with Naughty Boy's La La La topping the charts.

• The most popular video in 2013 around the world was, quite unsurprisingly The Fox, so here it is again:

• What lessons can musicians and labels take from YouTubers such as Jenna Marbles?

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