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YouTube is testing a new update that removes the amount of “dislikes” from a video.
While those dislikes will continue to be counted, and users will be able to press the button just as easily, there will be no public way to see how many other people have done the same.
The change was made “in response to comments from creators about specific wellness and dislike campaigns,” YouTube said.
YouTube has been expressing concern about the way dislikes can be used to target creators for years. In early 2019, it announced that it was looking to address that issue, indicating that it was considering not only hiding the numbers, but also making it harder for me to dislike things or removing the feature entirely.
The new update, which is only rolling out to select people, and may never become permanent, is on the less dramatic end of that scale, only hiding the dislike count but keeping the other features the same.
The company revealed one of its designs in the tweet announcing the alteration.
In another post, he made it clear that the way dislikes actually work won’t change and will continue to be counted. The update just means that people can’t see how many other people hit the dislike button, he said.
“Creators, you will still be able to see the exact number of likes and dislikes in YouTube Studio. For viewers, if they are in the experiment, they can still like or dislike a video to share comments with creators and help adjust the recommendations they see on YouTube, ”the company wrote.
The change received something after the YouTube tweet, with a series of responses opposing the new design. Some suggested that the site was protecting unpopular creators; Others noted that the video that I like the least on the platform is the YouTube video “Rewind” from 2018.
