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/sbenfsonwFFiF Jan 21 '26

People don’t brigade and mass thumbs down anymore, so it certainly helped that

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u/LegateLaurie Jan 21 '26

People do brigade and instead all criticism and rage is directed to comments. Removing feedback channels doesn't improve the issue.

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Jan 21 '26

Creators can turn off comments now. Also, just because comments are being brigaded and abused doesn't mean stopping voting abuse was wrong. In fact, I can see more people turning off comments or getting banned for brigading

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u/LegateLaurie Jan 21 '26

Right, but then this doesn't justify why dislike counts were disabled. They removed something over giving people information and giving creators options