Jason's current events blog

YouTube rewind has been an annual tradition on the website, it is a video made by the website to celebrate that year's biggest and most successful creators and make a video to 'rewind' the year. At first, they were well received and something to look forward to seeing the video come out. However the 2018 Rewind was not well received and in fact became the most disliked video on the website, currently sitting at 17 million dislikes. That years and previous years were mainly just a long music video of many songs put together with many of the YouTubers who were notable that year. That changed for the 2019 version which came out only a few days ago. This year they released what is essentially a list video and that still is being looked at negatively.

Recently the president of France, Emmanual Macron, is pushing for a pension reform which he believes will keep France more competitive in the global stage during the 21st century. This has caused mass protests in France with many people going out to the streets. Frances has a current 42 different pension system across all sectors, some advantages of this are that more physically demanding jobs like construction and railway workers can retire earlier than other jobs like lawyers and secretaries. But with this new pension reform, there would be only one pension system across the country. The protests have caused mass shutdowns of schools business and railways because people are going out to protest instead of working https://roguerocket.com/2019/12/05/france-strike/