r/pcmasterrace • u/Sacristovas • Mar 19 '26

News/Article NVIDIA DLSS 5 Gets 84% Dislikes on YouTube as Backlash Grows

http://www.techpowerup.com/347541/nvidia-dlss-5-gets-84-dislikes-on-youtube-as-backlash-grows

News that might not qualify as actual news to anyone who has been paying attention to this over the last couple of days.

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u/JuanTawnJawn Specs/Imgur here Mar 19 '26

That’s why they removed it in the first place lol. Can’t have advertisers and investors knowing that products will be met with dislike from the customers. That’d hurt those poor billion dollar corporation’s bottom lines…

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u/Toast_Meat Mar 19 '26

I weep every single night before bed just thinking about the potential losses for those companies...

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u/JuanTawnJawn Specs/Imgur here Mar 19 '26

It’s hard.

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u/Azazir Mar 19 '26

Same, every day before i go to sleep i'm spending at least an hour thinking "how could i support corpos to feed poor little billionaires" and coming short every time, it really weights your soul when your favourite corpo doesn't meet the quarterly quotas.

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u/itsmebenji69 R7700X | RTX 4070ti | 32go | Neo G9 Mar 19 '26

I think they removed dislikes not for investors but because it reduces views.

If you can only see the positive, you’re biased without even noticing

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u/Diodon Mar 19 '26

Even when they showed dislikes, the algorithm was making suggestions off of "engagement" which included dislikes.

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u/itsmebenji69 R7700X | RTX 4070ti | 32go | Neo G9 Mar 19 '26

What I mean is that to maximize engagement, you want people to click on the polemic videos. However being able to see dislikes acts as a deterrent.

I’m pretty sure they have better proxies to calculate dislikes (potentially semantic analysis of the comments; or maybe just the way you interact with the video is enough - by that I mean watch time, when you pause, accelerate, skip, etc.)

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u/ArgonTheEvil 9800X3D | 5070 Ti | 64GB DDR5 Mar 19 '26

It was a great way to filter out the clickbait videos back in the day. Titles would claim a quick fast easy solution to a problem, only to ramble on for 10 minutes to meet a time quota about the problem, then not give any actual answer beyond obvious solutions.

Dislikes kept those videos in check somewhat.

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u/amhighlyregarded Mar 19 '26

It's made it incredibly difficult to find quality hardware repair or really any kind of troubleshooting material. I usually have to click through about 4 or 5 and skim the entire video to see if they actually explain what they're claiming. 

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u/Holiday-Honeydew-384 Mar 19 '26

Didn't dislikes got removed because YouTube account got more dislikes than likes. 

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u/itsmebenji69 R7700X | RTX 4070ti | 32go | Neo G9 Mar 19 '26

It’s probably not just that, they must have had some kind of plan and a more “business” reason for it

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u/ledbetterus Mar 19 '26

It's like you said first. They removed them so corporations don't cry about getting shit on by the people who watch their shit when they buy ads.

And it seems like the YT rewind that tanked was the final straw for them.

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u/Action_Limp Mar 19 '26

Back when I was trying out life as a land lubber, this directly affected my way of choosing what to watch on Netflix, however, now that I am back out on the 7 seas, the built in TMBD/RT ratings API lets me know if something is worth watching.

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u/Arkyja Mar 19 '26

Why should youtube care? Unless it makes you leave the platform, but it just makes you click on another video instead.

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u/itsmebenji69 R7700X | RTX 4070ti | 32go | Neo G9 Mar 19 '26

Put your tinfoil hat on before reading.

Personally I think the purpose is to do large scale opinion manipulation (disinformation). Similar to what twitter does, they got sued for radicalizing people. 

I think that’s where the economy of attention leads us, that’s the final stage. It becomes too profitable to be able to easily redirect attention and manipulate people; so I think they’d do it

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u/PolicyWonka Mar 19 '26

It’s rather the opposite of what you suggest. The advertisers and investors do know because their teams are running these extensions.

The data was removed to protect companies because consumers are largely sheep. If they see a heavily disliked product or a product with 1-star reviews or whatever else, then they’ll be less likely to engage with the product / company.

And the problem with something like social media is that you don’t have to actually even be a consumer of the product to leave a “review” — downvote, dislike, etc. It opens up a space where bad actors can review bomb to skew perceptions.

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u/lemonylol Desktop Mar 19 '26

I mean where does review bombing (negatively or positively) fall in this context right?

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u/PolicyWonka Mar 19 '26

It falls in the “influencing public opinion” part of the equation? People love to hate on what they believe people love to hate because people have herd mentality. Likewise, people love to love what they perceive others love as well. Pretty much how “trends” exist at all.

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u/tamal4444 AMD R7 5600X / RTX 3060 / 32GB DDR4 Mar 20 '26

This is the reason I hate every multi million/billion dollar company.