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Awhile back,YouTube deactivated their dislike feature on their videos. They didn't remove it, mind you, for obvious reasons.

Those reasons, if they need to be spelled out, are simple:

1. Corporate media networks were tired of being savaged by dislikes from folks who are tired of being served up propaganda on a regular basis.

2. They want it to appear that nobody dislikes their content.

Hilarious, really! The s**t show that our media and political establishment has evolved into is so blatent, it's amazing there is anyone left who doesn't see it.

3. Conspiracy theorists, racists, sexists, Trumpists, and other woo-woo nutjobs were butt-hurt over being disliked.

Is there literally any evidence to support this? It’s pretty hard to imagine that “corporate media networks” care how many people are disliking its YouTube videos - and they almost certainly don’t care whether other people know about that.

YouTube’s explanation:

That seems like a much more credible explanation than the frankly absurd “corporate media networks” one.

Good rule: if something seems absurd, check whether it is true, or whether there is a better explanation, before you get outraged.

"Check the facts before you act", eh?

YouTube is a medium where, basically, any and all opinions hold sway.

That makes absolutely no sense since, these people do not have the power to remove the dislike feature.

I don’t agree with the policy of not recording “dislikes.”

It goes against the principle of an objective analysis of how people feel about a certain video.

It is, in a way, a form of censorship.

I’m not sure if an entity which advocates for corporate entities is behind this.

Neither do Corporate Media Networks.

I don’t care for dislikes because it could be really upsetting to kids or depressed people to receive them.

Not liking a video should be enough IMO.

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Social Media is A Relatively New Experiment
Still Where Once What Was Basically the Wild
West With Guns A Slinging Over Addictions to the

Dopamine And Adrenaline Related Neurohormones
Anger And Hate Do Bring As 'Troll Addictions' to Folks Somewhat Devoid
Empty of the Warmth That Flowers Within Bond and Bind Happier With

Oxytocin;

However,

Empathy May
Also Go Negative
That Way and Warm

When Folks Bond Over the
DarK Real Pain Meets Pleasure

Following Most Despicable Leaders
As A Modern Meme of Minions Surely Do;

Yawn, the CEO of YOUTUBE IS TRULY ALL ABOUT
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PROTECTING THE MARGINALIZED

IN SOCIETY FROM

SOCIAL ABUSE OF
MOST OFTEN ANONYMOUS
TROLLS ADDICTED TO ANGER AND
HATE AND ALL STUFF BRINGING FOLKS

DOWN TO FILL AN EMPTY VOID WITHIN.

40 Percent of College Age Students are Assessed
With Depression to the Point of it Effecting their
Functioning in Every Day Life, Clinical in Severity indeed;

60 Percent of College Age Students Are Assessed With Anxiety
to the Point of it Effecting Their Functioning in Every Day Life, Clinical in Severity Indeed;

While Representatives Like the 'Gaetz Ilk' of my Local Area District Go to Fat Shaming Women
As Not Worth Impregnating And The Same With Depressed And Lonely Millennial Women too

The Republican Party May accept that as Humane And Gold So 10-Year Old Girls Must Carry

To PRiSoN

Term

FOR REAL

The Fetus
of Violent
Rapists; Yes, 'Friends'
And 'Family' So Sadly
Included in A Potential
Incestuous Mix of Soul Killing Violence
Taking Away Basic Health Care And Reproductive

Freedoms From All Women in Select 'Third World States;'

Yet You See YouTube is A Private Corporation and So Is Twitter
And Facebook Too; They Get To Decide How to Decorate Their Private

Corporations

Per Percentage

of Thorns or Flowers
in Rising or Wilting Roses of Humanity;

Listen, There is Not Only 911; There is also 988 NOW
Established By A More Empathic Biden Administration
To Help With Mental Health More Than Bringing Folks Down

Down Down

As Other Present And Potential
Administrations Continue to Do;

It's True, Policing the Internet May Reasonably Be
Done No Different Than Any Crack House For Blood;

HAha, There are New "Sheriff's in Town" Who Care About Human
Beings; And THere are Still "Old Sheriff's" in Town Who Just Don't Give A CR8P....

YOUTUBE Has given its Official Explanation as Protecting Mental Health ThiS Way;

Other Opinions

Related Here are
Only Personal Speculations.

True, It Helps To Actually
Research The Facts As Officially Stated;

Yet Of Course, Everyone Has THeir Own Opinions...

Facebook And Twitter Don't Have Any Dislike Buttons;

It's Not Surprising a Place Like Reddit Does Have Down Votes;

Choose the
Garden You

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FLoWeRS or THoRNS;

Roses Wilting or RiSinG Indeed;

Neither Impact my Mental
Health as i Generate my
Own Happiness in Autotelic
Meditating Flow Most Every Second of the Day;

Not Everyone is 'Superman And or Superwoman'

In Terms of Old Philosophers With Thick And Stale Mustaches ThiS Way...

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It ain’t rocket science. If you don’t like someone’s YouTube channel don’t watch it: problem solved.
Likewise, if you don’t like someone’s posts on W.P. Don’t read them.
It’s self-inflicted butthurt if you do.

I feel like a person who posts a video could, he/herself, determine whether he/she wants "dislikes."

I've watched some really good videos, like ones with kittens and other cute animals that are wholesome and naturally stress-reducing. And yet I'd see dislikes for the videos. I'd wonder who would dislike such videos in the first place? Must be by people who love being trolls. That's just gross.

But then again nothing about YouTube makes any sense. They have videos for their Kids Channel that are more disturbing and frightening than any of their videos rated for people 18 and over. They decided one of my videos wasn't suitable for people under 18 because it showed two male Sims kissing. Yeah, apparently kids shouldn't know people of the same sex can be attracted to each other until they're 18 if not any older.

What's a "Sims?"

I don't bother with the crap on YouTube. I read and listen to mostly travel vlogs.

I still think it makes no sense to leave the link to the dislike option and disable it. Oh, well.

I've watched social media censorship get worse and worse for years, but nobody here seems to get what I'm talking about.

The Sims is a video game series where you can create simulated families who go about everyday lives. It is one of the best-selling video game series of all time, being particularly popular among people who don't enjoy "action" games.

Individual characters in the game are "a Sim", with the plural being "Sims".