No More Publicly Displayed Dislikes on YouTube Videos: Who Asked For This?

No flashy intro today, as this’ll be a bit of a short one. Part of playing catch up since my computer went up. I’d been meaning to bring this up, and I’m sure you’ve already noticed this about the time it happened, but YouTube has [temporarily?] removed publicly displayed dislikes. You can still hit that dislike button if you want to, but there will be no displayed number to signify just how many people disliked the video before you.

My simple question here is why? Who asked for this? At the very least, this feels like just an unnecessary change that doesn’t do a whole lot at the expense of the audience here on YouTube. You’re effectively losing a function at your disposal in how you might want to interact with a video – like, dislike, subscribe, comment, share, save, report, open transcript? Weird how they decided to “get rid of” it now versus before. Supposedly, this is to help smaller channels, but that feels like a cop-out answer to me. I get the feeling that there’s a deeper reason here, or perhaps a variety of different reasons why YouTube decided to go this direction. Not sure I’m liking it either way.

In any case, just a topic of interest I wanted to bring up as a breath of fresh air from the typical e-news and drama videos most of you have probably become accustomed to.

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