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Youtube Disliked the Dislikes
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this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2026
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Does anyone know is there a reason why they got rid of dislike? I'd have thought they'd want it to help improve recommendations?
The main reason cited was that downvotes discouraged creators from naming and uploading content. There’s probably some truth to it. If I got served with a 10 minute tutorial video and a 60% vote ratio I’m probably not watching that very far.
If I recall correctly, they said it was to preview "review bombing" of small channel. They said that a few weeks after YouTube's own channel published one of the most disliked video ever (YouTube rewind).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-disliked_YouTube_videos
December 13th 2021(og dislike removal day) happened like 3 years after rewind 2018 dislike bombing
It's the children who are wrong.
They want more money. Helping the user is only good if it makes money. Anyway, down votes give viewers more information, and probably YT wants to doctor the data in a way that downvotes block.
For example, I would always downvote AI content if allowed. So would countless others. But YT wants people to watch it, right? So they gotta suppress our negative feedback.
Youtube wants you to brainlessly watch whatever the algorithm spits at you next. Ideally, you'd have no information at all about the video before watching it. No title, no creator name, no view count, no thumbnail, nothing. Just CONSOOM. Attach their slop hose directly to your mouth and don't ask questions about what's flowing through it.
It was routinely being gamed, made it kinda useless for semi popular stuff when you couldn't tell if something was actually garbage, or just had upset the wrong people.
Honestly I'd rather have that now, a sizable minority of users hate AI videos.