Recently, YouTube disabled the dislike count for it's videos. The dislike button is still there and the creators can still see the count for their own videos, even though Team Youtube said it was a decision made "To reduce targeted dislike attacks & their impact on creators" (Link to twitter post about the removal)

Why is this a problem?

-The decision not only makes no sense and is obviously only made to protect corporations that keep doing bad decisions, but also comes with gigantic problems. As an example, if a user needs help with something and goes to a tutorial on YouTube and that video has a link to a virus in the description, the video uploader only needs to disable the comments (Or not even that, they could have multiple fake accounts to say the link is legitimate!) so that the viewer wouldn't have any way to know. Many other scams like this would grow in the website, specially things directed towards children like ways to get free currency on a video-game.

-The previously mentioned reason can also be said about smaller things, like just if a video has clickbait, there would also be no way of knowing

-YouTube Team is forcing this into every video, when it could just be an option (And it actually already was, you could just disable both likes and dislikes on any video that you make!)

-The website's team should be working on a lot more stuff to update instead of something like the dislike count; It's gotten to the point where clickbaity and lazy content is encouraged and does better than a lot of people actualy trying their best. The site's safety needs to be worked on, a lot of channels are being stolen. For years now people have been getting copyright strikes for a lot of stuff, even if they credit the original content and/or only show a couple of seconds of it. You can easily find content creators complaining about these and many other problems while YouTube does nothing about it.

So let's bring the dislike count back!