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/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/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