Marvel movies aren't generating the buzz they once were, and Disney is an important YouTube partner that has earnings expectations to met, so... gotta do something about the "review bombing from bigots".
Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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#42First it was the complete corporate takeover of their search algorithm in the last few years, now they're removing the final way that users can express displeasure from political organizations and content creators. This is yet another nail in the coffin of Youtube, it's almost ready to go into the ground as Rumble and Odysee take off and Youtube slides into corporate/censorious irrelevance.
Im curious if this has anything to do with the mountain of dislikes on anything COVID or US presidency related content.
If anything I'd assume its about the YouTube rewind getting massively downvoted year after year
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#43The overwhelming sentiment to the decision here is negative, but I don't quite understand that reaction.
If YouTube was just looking out for big brands and/or advertisers, they could have restricted the change incredibly simply. By making it a global change they're saying "ok now we understand how our UI actually led to some pretty bad outcomes in ways we failed to anticipate, and we're fixing that".
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#44If they are so against brigading, why not remove Like counts as well?
Whenever rich powerful people or companies says "Helping Small Creators", "Investing millions in small business", "Helping Small Companies", "Donate to support this cause" its almost a sign that something is shady. By removing the like count user will probably not engage that much which means loss of revue through adverts. However if they remove dislikes there is high probability of engagement because you don't know if the video is bad.
And this feature is not even required AFAIK. Creators can simply disable like & dislike if they think they are being targeted.
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#45Official blog post: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/
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#46Odd that a certain political party got a large amount of downvotes on all their videos and YouTube removes the publics ability to see them soon after.
It's smart in a gross way. They can materially reduce the risk of being regulated by pandering to them.
Who whips who? Media or parties?
Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube
#47I am all for it. But they should also remove like counts and comments. The content should speak for itself.
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#48Time to code up a quick Likes/Views ratio to inject below videos with ViolentMonkey.
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#49This isn’t about small content creators. It’s almost certainly about big brands (advertisers) that hate it when their high budget movie/game/trailer/whatever gets publicly downvoted.
Advertisers and creators already had the ability to hide likes/dislikes.
They explained in a related post that people were being harassed for hiding it or hiding comments... (Replace people with "brands" and we can infer their true motivation)
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#50This isn’t about small content creators. It’s almost certainly about big brands (advertisers) that hate it when their high budget movie/game/trailer/whatever gets publicly downvoted.
Honestly I'm sick of every time someone posts a video suggesting vaccination it's heavily downvoted - for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc79u7ym8SY