An update to dislikes on YouTube

[Trevor Philips]

Corporations probably threatened to pull their ads off the site if the dislikes weren't removed. Next up might be the comment section, severely limited or turned into a paid only feature.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It's not even social media anymore, it's just worse T.V

Corporations - and maybe governments - clearly miss when TV was the main medium of mass media. FCC (or other government) regulations and corporations controlled what people saw on TV, so they could get away with influencing popular opinion with little or no public dissent.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

This is all about the big boys.

You tube is losing money at an amazing rate and the lesbian in charge is trying everything in her power to sanitize the Tube for the big power players who can shell out those bucks.

Right now when CNN, MSCBN or even the Whitehouse channels disable comments you can still see how hard they are getting own'd in the dislikes. It makes them look bad and even worse erodes their ability to be taken seriously. You can hate them, that's ok, but never never never can you mock them.

When Biden's last speech got so down-voted so badly, so very badly, mommy lesbian boss lady had to act so they suspended the dislikes on that video. Now of course most peeps frequenting the Tube know when a channel sets it comments off and disables dislikes that means its getting trashed to hell in the ratio and can thus act accordingly.

So we can't have that, can't have people seeing that the narrative isn't super popular and supported by everyone so bye bye dislikes. Now the Tube is a safe playground for any propaganda they choose to spew out as viewers have zero way to counter-act it. Can't comment, can't dislike. Then all the good little gubbins can go around pointing out that such and such a video has 1 million likes!!! OMG it's super important and so popular guys!! Of course the reality is that it does indeed have 1 million likes but it also would of had 5 million dislikes if but the option was there. Its pure theatre.

Its just more image control to make the boob tube more useful to the big players so they can spend those bucks and make Google even more money and thus more power. I will not buy the excuse that dislikes harm creators, Boob Tube has never given a single shit about any of its creators before now and suddenly we are supposed to swallow the line that its the small channels begging for this new policy? Fuck that.

It's all about control, control of the narrative, control of the flow of information, control of you.

Its's always about control.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

There's even vids where one may not even see how many likes a vid has, just a "like" or "dislike" option.

YT has come a long way since the days of rating videos with that star rating thing.

 

[Ita Mori]

If it was really about small content creators, they'd make it so only non-monetized creators just starting out can hide the downdoots.
But I'm sure this benefiting no one except corpos and feds is an alt-right conspiracy theory deeply rooted in White supremacy.

Anyway, I'm almost sure that if Orange fag gets a second term, YouTube will release a statement something along the lines of: "You spoke. We listened. Knowing audience reaction to uploaded content is an important measure in the quality of that content, and is also a way of giving you a voice towards others. Starting on January 22, we bring back the thumbs system, starting with government channels and slowly expanding back to everyone. We beg your patience in the meantime."

 

[TurdFondler]

It's a pretty dystopian scenario when you think about it. The only way to interact with the content is to watch it and like it.

I don't understand why they can't implement a two tier system. Buttblasted government vids can have the ratios hidden but leave them on for the rest of the site. The fun is leaving the platform entirely.

I think it's also a way to make content more "wholesome", as in, more marketable and palatable. Your drama tubers and hate-watched stars are going to feel this the most. A lot of these people make their money being disliked, without a means to dislike their content there's no way to interact with them and they'll get buried in the algo.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The only way to interact with the content is to watch it and like it.

That makes the way TV worked before the internet sound pretty dystopian.

No wonder art of people getting brainwashed by TV was made back then.

The "sweet spot" of the internet was before the heavy censorship of Current Year, but after the internet took off in the mid to late '00s.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

r/DataHoarder has taken notice and at least one user is actively trying to archive the dislike counts as they stand today

 

[TurdFondler]

That makes the way TV worked before the internet sound pretty dystopian.

No wonder art of people getting brainwashed by TV was made back then.

I'd say this is worse. T.V was fairly passive. You knew there was no way to interact with the show and the creators, short of writing a letter. You could turn the T.V off I guess. Some shows sucked and everyone kind of knew it, but no matter what they'd come on at their scheduled time.

Now? There's the expectation of interaction with the creators, they let you leave feedback. In fact the feedback system determines what you see. By hobbling it into positive interactions only it's a lot worse than just being exposed to garbage T.V because you now have no idea what's genuinely liked, disliked and what's being pushed by bots.

Like, if a video is getting ratio'd and overnight turns it around, you know they bought the likes. There's no way to tell now.

 

[nanny911]

The worst part is now we can't laugh at the mental gymnastics of people in the comment sections:

"No! no! It has 2,000 likes, 978,000 dislikes and 2 million views! That means most people don't have a negative opinion on it!"

"No! just because all of his videos got disliked to hell doesn't mean he didn't really get all those votes! It's those Russian cornfarmers from Iowa!"

 

[TurdFondler]

To be fair getting a President's videos ratio'd is exactly what I'd expect 21st century psy ops to look like.

On the other hand it's hard to like a senile pedophile

 

[Haunted Ronnie Mcnutt]

so is it in effect or what i still see the dislikes

 

[nanny911]

so is it in effect or what i still see the dislikes

It's in effect for me, can't vouch for other countries, though.

 

[A Pile Of Fucking Ashes]

Great, now comment sections are just going to get spammed with "rAtIo". I swear Youtube becomes more like Twitter with each passing day.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Great, now comment sections are just going to get spammed with "rAtIo". I swear Youtube becomes more like Twitter with each passing day.

This will be less helpful than downvotes, too. The average granny looking up a tutorial is not aware of Twitter culture. She'll think it's just kids being silly.

Granny just wants to know how to clean her modern appliances. She has no time for Twitter nonsense.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

Apparently dislikes are still visible if you're not logged in:

How long until this is patched out as well?

 

[Full Race Replay]

so is it in effect or what i still see the dislikes

It's in effect for me, can't vouch for other countries, though.

Apparently dislikes are still visible if you're not logged in:
View attachment 2711802
How long until this is patched out as well?

It's a slow burn update. I got an email that says "Otherwise, your access to public dislike count data via the Data API will end on December 13, 2021." so that could be the cutoff point.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

Apparently dislikes are still visible if you're not logged in:
View attachment 2711802
How long until this is patched out as well?

I'll laugh if they're so incompetent that they break some integral functionality while trying to get rid of every little instance of the number of dislikes.

 

[mikaylatoads]

It's a slow burn update. I got an email that says "Otherwise, your access to public dislike count data via the Data API will end on December 13, 2021." so that could be the cutoff point.

Likely case, I can still see them in US.

 

[Pissmaster]

Still visible for me and I'm logged in, here's an example on a new video: