The dislike counter will be removed from the platform The dislike counter is about to disappear from your most hated YouTube videos, but the dislike button isn’t going away.
While the dislike counter — which, as the name suggests, counts how many times people have disliked a YouTube video — has its uses, YouTube researchers discovered that many users tend to bombard a single video in a kind of review-bomb-like tactic.
YouTube revealed the change in a blog post on Wednesday, which gave some additional context as to why the company will remove the dislike counter on all its videos.
YouTube actually experimented with the removal of the dislike counter earlier this year, and the evidence it found in the process led to its decision to remove the counter on every video.