Buzz
The initiative to hide video dislike counts aims to prevent organized mass dislike campaigns from content creators and YouTube channels. This move mirrors efforts made by platforms like Instagram to thwart deliberate attacks from the outset.
According to YouTube, content creators will still see information about likes and dislikes through YouTube Studio. Furthermore, only likes will be publicly displayed on videos. Explaining this experiment, YouTube states that dislikes negatively impact the creators' well-being and 'may fuel a targeted dislike campaign against creators' videos'.
Content creators rely on likes and dislikes as a form of feedback to guide content development, but like intentionally giving a negative review to a game on Steam, it's easy to turn what could be constructive into a target for dislike campaigns. When YouTube first announced they were looking into addressing issues with dislikes, they considered 3 ideas: hiding the number of likes and dislikes, requiring additional interaction, or completely removing likes and dislikes. This experiment has implemented half of the first idea. If dislikes are a problem, why not hide them and see what happens?
However, in the case of only removing dislikes and not likes, viewers may misunderstand the true popularity of the video. It should be noted that YouTube has not committed to removing dislike counts on videos for everyone at this time. Feedback from the experiment will inform YouTube about whether they will implement this plan more widely and how.
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YouTube is currently testing hiding dislike counts on videos. For more details, read: https://Mytour.vn/youtube-dang-thu-nghiem-viec-an-so-luot-dislike-tren-video-27866n.aspx
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