YouTube CEO Explains Why The Dislike Button Was Removed
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki discussed the matter with Ludwig Ahgren during an hour-long interview. She largely noted that the tool was unhelpful for public use and perhaps fed into some toxicity. "We knew that it was going to be controversial," said Wojcicki. "We have to do what is the right thing for the ecosystem as a whole and running the website as a whole, we have access to data that individual creators might not have, meaning that we're looking at all the statistics of how overall the platform is performing. We're not just running one experiment, we're running many over a period of time. Dislikes, we heard loud and clear why many people were unhappy with that decision. We also saw the impact it was having on a lot of new creators and that's bad. We need to support new creators and how they're growing for the long term health of our ecosystem."
Wojcicki also stated that YouTube has no plans to let users toggle the dislike button for their channel. Ultimately, the dislike button did let creators know how the public felt about things. The trailer for the latest GTA V remaster was hit with tons of dislikes on YouTube, which may be valuable feedback to a developer like Rockstar Games, but also could be harmful or negative for a smaller creator. It seems like the public dislike button will be a thing of the past unless a significant change is made.
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SeanPosted:
TheOriginalReFLeX This is extremely old news and an old video. A late post on TTG. Do not let google fool you or this video. The YouTube button was removed to favor YouTube's radical Biden administration agenda and 100% for political reasons. The comments also clearly state my point, almost all of them. The video had over 200,000 dislikes when they removed it and only under 10,000 likes at the time.
It's about the interview she did last week youtu.be/QQA12hqCiZU?t=1105
TheOriginalReFLeXPosted:
This is extremely old news and an old video. A late post on TTG. Do not let google fool you or this video. The YouTube button was removed to favor YouTube's radical Biden administration agenda and 100% for political reasons. The comments also clearly state my point, almost all of them. The video had over 200,000 dislikes when they removed it and only under 10,000 likes at the time.
KrimblePosted:
Horseshit excuse to silence people. Good thing there are browser extensions to see dislikes.
TTGPosted:
they think it was harmful or negative? To bad content creators can see their own dislikes lmao
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