YouTube Co-Founder Slams Company's Removal Of 'Dislike' Button As "Stupid Move"
YouTube Co-Founder Slams Company's Removal Of 'Dislike' Button As "Stupid Move"
BY TYLER DURDEN TUESDAY, NOV 16, 2021 - 09:04 AM Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,
The co-founder of YouTube has labelled the company’s decision to remove the ‘dislike’ button as a “Stupid move.”
Jawed Karim, who sold his stake in YouTube for $65 million in
2006, was the first person to ever upload a video to YouTube and he used that
video to comment on the scrapping of the ‘thumb down’ button.
In the description section of the video, which shows the
engineer visiting San Diego zoo 16 years ago, Karim edited in the comment “When
every YouTuber agrees that removing dislikes is a stupid idea, it probably is.
Try again, YouTube.”
YouTube announced it will hide ‘dislikes’ from videos, reasoning that it will curb “creator harassment,” yet critics pointed out that this is merely a way of removing the huge amount of downvotes on videos posted by the Biden administration.
Another respondent pointed out the massive dislike ratio received by the Fauci
propaganda movie.
With the recent popularity of the ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ meme, this seems like
another transparent attempt to protect the plunging popularity of Biden, whose
approval rating just fell to a record low.
As we previously highlighted,
despite being “the most popular president in U.S. history” after his *totally
not unusual* vote record, Joe Biden didn’t fare too well on YouTube in the days
after his inauguration, where every single video posted to the official White
House channel received massive downvote ratios.
Thanks to YouTube, those ratios will apparently never be a
problem again.
However, some have suggested that
YouTube may be backflipping on the decision, with some dislikes that
disappeared now reappearing on Monday.
As News.au.com noted,
the most hated video on the platform, YouTube’s own ‘rewind 2018’ video, had
it’s awful ratio removed recently...
..., but then it reappeared...
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