More videos on YouTube Wojcicki stated that judging a video on its dislikes was never an accurate way to decide what to watch, which is why YouTube never showed them on the homepage, search results, or Up Next screens.
Dislike counts on YouTube won't be coming back, as the CEO stands behind the decision to remove them. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki defends the removal of dislike counts on videos in her annual letter outlining the company's priorities for the year.
In early November 2021, YouTube announced its decision to remove the public-facing “Dislike” count from all videos on the platform. While this change has yet to be active for most users, the update is likely to go into effect within the next month.
YouTube says that asking its algorithm not to recommend a video or a channel simply stops the algorithm from recommending that particular video or channel—and does not affect a user's access to a specific topic, opinion, or speaker.
Though the debate is far from over, creators can rest assured that their viewership won't be affected by swarms of dislikes. According to Wojcicki and internal YouTube research, dislikes don't have a meaningful impact on viewership—and there are real-world examples supporting the findings.
Only content creators can see the “true” number of likes and dislikes their videos receive, and there are plans to allow creators to share this information with the extension in the future.
In November 2021, YouTube announced that dislike numbers would no longer be publicly visible to prevent dislike attacks. The dislike button is still there and viewers can use it to adjust their home feed. But only creators can see how many dislikes they got.
We also want to point out that the developers behind RYD state that it isn't 100% accurate. The nature of the tool is that the more people there are that use it, the more accurate it becomes. To start, it's probably important for users to understand that the numbers given by the extension aren't precise.
YouTube Rewind (stylized as YouTube ЯEWIND) was an annual video series that was produced and created by the American video platform YouTube and Portal A Interactive from 2010 to 2019. The videos were an overview and a recap of each year's viral videos, events, trends, and music.
YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. Accessible worldwide, it was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google and is the second most visited website, after Google Search.
YouTube doesn't allow anything that artificially increases the number of views, likes, comments, or other metrics either by using automatic systems or serving up videos to unsuspecting viewers. Also, content that solely exists to incentivize viewers for engagement (views, likes, comments, etc) is prohibited.
Ratings of three or more "stars" were converted to "likes" and such below accordingly to "dislikes". This change was first announced in September 2009.
The answer is no – YouTubers do not know when you unsubscribe. While they can see the number of lost subscribers, they cannot identify who those subscribers are.
Dislikes And Profit
Of course, when YouTube is a source of revenue for you, you will be concerned if getting thumbs down will affect your monetization. The answer is quite similar to the issue of rating – there is no direct way dislikes impact your revenue. But there's always the chance they will do it indirectly.
A video with 1M views and 100 likes for example has a low ratio (0.1%), and probably means the video is not popular. Any video with a like to view ratio greater than 2 or 3 percent, should be all right.
Facebook and Instagram do not have a dislike button. Reddit has a downvote button, and YouTube a dislike one.
YouTube says that asking its algorithm not to recommend a video or a channel simply stops the algorithm from recommending that particular video or channel—and does not affect a user's access to a specific topic, opinion, or speaker.
The down-vote or “thumbs down” button is a remnant of the days before Youtubes comment section was linked to Google+. The up-voting is technically now just a +1 on Google+ and since there is no “thumbs down” on Google+ the remnant is a design choice by Google to have a thumbs up and a matching thumbs down.
Recently there had been a change in the design of YouTube pages. The date only hides when the page is in the 125% zoom mode. in other zoom rates it is clearly visible right beside the view count.