Users may continue to dislike YouTube videos but their ability see public counts of internet users who dislike and like the video will disappear.
Being a conservative on big tech platforms like YouTube is a joy. You can gather with others and vote against liberal propaganda. YouTube is reportedly stripping its platform of this ability, however, and it is doing so in the name of protecting creators’ feelings: “To reduce targeted dislike attacks & their impact on creators (esp on smaller creators), you’ll no longer see a public dislike *count* on YouTube starting today (the dislike button is staying),” TeamYouTube declared in a Nov. 10 tweet. Creators will still be able to see the dislikes of their videos, but it won’t be publicly visible that the number of viewers who liked or disliked a particular video. TeamYouTube attempted to rationalize its decision: “We’ve found the public dislike count motivates trolls, harassment, and dislike attacks, & our experiment results/data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior when it’s not visible.”
The video shared with the post made a pitiful attempt to cover for YouTube’s decision, noting toward the end: “Keep in mind other platforms don’t even have a dislike button.” As of the writing of this blog, the video has a ratio of 5,900 dislikes to 4,300 likes.
But creators had no problem with it.
YouTube star Shoe0nHead quickly scorched the decisionThis is:
“[O]k if the creators can still see the dislikes then its not for ‘mental health’ like you’re pretending it is. It protects the image of media and corpos, who are otherwise trusted and liked. Sad!”
The account is allegedly representing YouTube star TheQuartering, a free-thinker. suggested: “This isn’t to protect ‘small creators’ it’s to protect brands. Everyone knows it.”
YouTube first reportedly mulled over the idea of removing publicly viewable dislikes and stopping “dislike mobs” in early 2019.
In YouTube’s Creator Insider, an in-house show made for YouTube creators, Leung addressed the growing concern over “dislike mobs” on January 29 and discussed various tactics that YouTube was considering to combat them.
YouTube was recently humiliated by its viewers, who had a notorious dislike ratio. YouTube’s annual Rewind compilation was a popular tradition that served as an homage to YouTube’s most influential creators, memes and music, but instead, in 2018, it featured (as noted by NewsBusters) “liberal YouTubers literally sitting around a campfire toasting the bravery of drag queens, immigrants and identity politics.” The video rapidly became the one of the most disliked videos in the platform’s history and currently has a mere 3 million likes to 19 million dislikes. Similarly Gillette’s commercial against “toxic masculinity” has about 835,000 likes compared to 1.6 million dislikes.
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