Did YouTube Quietly Remove The Dislike Button

Michael · July 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM

I cant find it anywhere on the YouTube creator side in the dashboard like beside videos etc, the only place I see it is on peoples videos when viewing them. Has anyone else noticed this? Is it being used by them any more?

ScrapBlox · July 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM

Wasn't fully a quiet removal there was massive backlash from creators and viewers when the first hid the counter, their reasoning was "harassment". Despite everything they refuse to give it back.

It was done in two stages : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m…r%2010,%5B24%5D

Michael · July 4, 2026 at 6:29 PM

Oh wow so 5 years ago and I am only just noticing properly. I can imagine, I have always thought it should be removed fully as people would deliberately dislike peoples videos to mess with them. I remember an old hater would dislike bomb every new upload.

ScrapBlox · July 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM

I'm still in favor for having a dislike counter as it helped identify good videos / tutorials especially 😅

Symph · July 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM

Man I'm kind of on the fence on this one. I like the idea of us being able to dislike videos because I want to know how the community is reacting to a video, but when I think about how dishonest and unscrupulous people are and the factor in AI and bots, it DOES feel awfully easy to manipulate and use it in an unethical way. Wish I had an opinion but I really don't know.

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