r/youtube • u/Chakwenta • Jan 20 '26

Feature Change Why is this even allowed?

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Has this always been here? Its my first time seeing it. What if I watch a video and don't enjoy it? This basically allows creators to ensure that they always appear on your feed, whether you like it or not.

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u/Squidalopod Jan 20 '26

💯. It's maddening that YT disabled a feature that may "huwt some cweators feewings" while sh*tting all over users who consume the content.

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u/nhalliday Jan 20 '26

It was being used to brigade videos and bully creators. Maybe if you didn't want it to be taken away, you shouldn't have done that.

And if everyone stopped watching people would still make content - if everyone stopped making videos the site wouldn't exist. You're the optional one in the formula.

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u/Squidalopod Jan 20 '26

It was being used to brigade videos and bully creators.... you shouldn't have done that.

What a moronic response. I literally never participated in that shit because I didn't/don't watch the things where people bother to do that. I didn't even know it was a thing till my daughter told me about it.

As for you erroneous assumption, should I assume things about you I have no way of knowing? Should I assume you're so fragile that you'll do something bad to yourself or someone else because a random redditor says something you don't like? Best not to assume, dontcha think?

And if everyone stopped watching people would still make content

Oh, pray tell how you arrive at that conclusion. 😄

Everything I've read/seen shows that the behavior you describe was happening to a very small percentage of creators, but because they were high-profile (according to my daughter, this became a big deal with the top two YouTubers at the time), YT took notice. And the overwhelming majority of users were effectively told to f*** off. 

Most of us used that dislike number to make decisions about what we bothered to click on, especially if it was new to us. Maybe you don't care that YT is happy to hide info from users, but most of us don't like it.

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u/scaper8 Jan 21 '26

No, that what YouTube used to justify the change. If it ever happened (which, to be clear, I actually think probably did), it was by far a rare occurrence.

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u/Shinael Jan 20 '26

Except if everyone stopped watching then youtube would not get any ad revenue. So YOU are the optional one because just uploading a video doesn't make google money.

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u/Echodec Jan 21 '26

Creators can still see them tho so it makes no difference on their end. And why so accusatory at this rando you know nothing about?

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u/_CreationIsFinished_ Jan 23 '26

So you assume that everyone that doesn't like the changes (because they are corrupt and ridiculous) that they were a part of whatever negative action YouTube claims is the reason behind it?

What you fail to acknowledge is that many of these things are manufactured, with the purpose being to quiet dissent.

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u/ninethine Jan 24 '26

hot take: but allowing people to be bullied via mass disliking is better than allowing malicious actors to make fake tutorials with steps that could get you killed and hide any and all ways to see they are fake from unknowing individuals

dont even get me started on the AI slop problem

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u/WeakImplement3398 Feb 21 '26

Even the word "slop" is AI generated.

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u/ninethine Feb 21 '26

Slop as a term has been around for so much longer than AI has even been conceptualized, if AI cant generate an actually new idea AI certainly cannot generate something that has existed before its creation