For more than a month, videos uploaded by US President Joe Biden’s White House YouTube page have received an overwhelming number of dislikes. Biden’s inauguration, for example, has been viewed over 1 million times on the White House YouTube page and has presently amassed more than 97,000 dislikes and 16,000 likes.
YouTube announced early Tuesday morning that it would be removing the public dislike counter on certain channels as a “response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns.”
“If you’re part of this small experiment, you might spot one of these designs in the coming weeks,” YouTube tweeted, including an example of the experimental toolbar.
Almost immediately, YouTube content creators and other netizens rejected the removal of a feedback tool they consider to be useful.
When asked how users will be able to know the public response to the video, @TeamYouTube claimed that the platform will “continue to tune recommendations based on likes and dislikes.”
“Viewer feedback is an important part of YouTube, but we’ve heard from creators that the current experience can negatively impact their wellbeing,” @TeamYouTube tweeted. “We also know that public dislike counts sometimes motivate targeted campaigns of dislikes on some videos.”
Though the White House YouTube page has undoubtedly taken a hit when it comes to the like-dislike ratio, the netizens’ theory remains unsubstantiated by YouTube or the Biden administration.
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