In order to stop hateful individuals from deliberately causing an individual sorrow and harm, YouTube decides to make their like/dislike ratio disappear.

A community of online trolls, the cyberbullying side of YouTube shows just how confident individuals can be once they're able to hide behind a computer screen, a few thousand kilometers here. YouTube's New/Upcoming Dislike Button (without total number of counts)Ī major reason could be to discourage cyberbullying. Now, why would such a decision take place? While the easy answer is 'covering up one's mistakes', let's offer our tribute to YouTube by giving it more honorable intentions. And before you ask: Rewind 2018 is part of those videos, yes. Therefore, it comes as a surprise to perhaps no one that the video sharing platform has made the feature inaccessible in certain videos on a desktop. The videos currently stand among some of most disliked videos ever, and honestly, who can blame the community?Īt any rate, the dislike button and the counts are important and an essential part of YouTube's online experience. The best example of this is YouTube Rewind 20, a couple of videos made by YouTube that were both so out of touch with the community at large, and also plagued by corporate sponsorships and other such 'sell-out' material. While usually videos have more likes than dislikes (YouTube's a sprawling online platform, all videos cater to some specific individuals), sometimes the wheel turns the other way. Whether it's the angry emoji from Facebook, or the ability to down downvote threads and individuals on Reddit, the like and dislike buttons are an effective, and wordless, way to communicate your interaction with and impressions of YouTube's encounters content. The like dislike bar is perhaps one of the simplest modes of conveying an opinion online, and yet is so effective at that task that individuals from other platforms ask for one too. YouTube has recently started hiding the total number of dislikes from some of its online videos and content.

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