[franciscop]

Do you mean like Youtube's own Youtube Rewind 2018, which it became the most disliked video surpassing even Justin Bieber's Baby? To add extra irony, it was subtitled "Youtube Rewind 2018 - Everyone Controls Rewind". It seems that everyone controlling the dislike button was not appreciated, and while I find this downvote session brilliant I've been waiting since then for Youtube to remove the downvote button.

[ehsankia]

Isn't that a perfect example of Dislike button being used mostly as a meme or to bully / pile-on? Or do you truly believe that video was somehow literally the worst video on Youtube?

In most other websites and contexts anyway, like/dislike is used to share your taste with the algorithm or to the author, and neither of those are disrupted here. The only thing that is disrupted is the tribal action using the dislike button as a way of publicly and anonymously showing hatred towards content.

[josefx]

> Or do you truly believe that video was somehow literally the worst video on Youtube?

It was "EA pride and accomplishment" bad. A brainless self glorifying marketing piece that didn't spend a second to even acknowledge all the issues many channels suffered under.

> Or do you truly believe that video was somehow literally the worst video on YouTube?

The worst video on YouTube probably doesn't get actively promoted by Google or carry the weight of being made by Google.

[ehsankia]

> It was "EA pride and accomplishment" bad

It's funny you refer to Reddit because that's also historically well known for pile-on behavior. Why do you think features such as "hiding vote count for the first few hours" exist? It's been shown that the very first few votes you get can result in the same comment either being downvoted to hell or upvoted.

So if the EA accident was your reasoning for why having dislikes is a good idea, then you really just proved my point, as that too was mostly a meme and perfect proof of pile-on behavior.

[josefx]

> So if the EA accident

Apparently you seem to be in agreement with the group piling on that the contents of the post were bad, otherwise why call it an accident?

> as that too was mostly a meme and perfect proof of pile-on behavior.

So you are saying if it hadn't been a meme most gamers would have up voted a post saying they should feel good from having to spend more on an already full price game?

[BeFlatXIII]

> It was "EA pride and accomplishment" bad. A brainless self glorifying marketing piece that didn't spend a second to even acknowledge all the issues many channels suffered under.

What made the 2018 Rewind any worse than the Rewinds of previous years?

[josefx]

Just re-watched 2017 and 2018

* 2017 music + people doing fun/weird things

* 2018 constant commentary, including mentions on how good youtube/they are and how many good things they did with some music in between. Lead by non other than the man who made it all possible, Mr. Youtube himself: Will Smith.

That last part was sarcasm. There are breakdowns by people more into youtube culture that can point out in detail which inclusions didn't make sense, why music videos from 2016 seem misplaced in a 2018 rewind and how many high profile content creators youtube passed over in order to create the specific public image it wanted to present.

[rockstep]

If I use a dislike button on a platform, it is typically because I want to warn other users away from that content, because its irrelevant, misleading, uninteresting etc. If likes and dislikes are primarily tools for personalising the algorithm to your taste then the platform may as well hide likes from public view as well.

[beezischillin]

I wouldn't necessarily say that it was the worst video, but the response to it was a response to YouTube's general direction, in my opinion.

https://www.polygon.com/2019/12/6/20998648/2019-youtube-rewi...

[donmcronald]

And instead of trying to understand the reason that video had so many dislikes they decided the users and the dislike button are the problem, not anything related to the way they're running Youtube. And that reaction just reinforces the beliefs of people that dislike how Youtube is being run.

[andromeduck]

It was pretty cringe, and for how much it was promoted, absolutely.

[qsort]

It might not be the worst video ever, but it was definitely among the most universally disliked. It's like downvotes here, you might disagree but it's meaningful signal.

[stemlord]

>as a meme or to bully / pile-on

It was an effective form of harmless electronic civil disobedience, a simple and albeit entertaining but still meaningful message of solidarity from the masses to a corporate entity.

[kumarsw]

I feel that the issue with the dislike button is its ambiguity, similar to star ratings. A Uber driver or Ebay seller with a many of 4-star ratings is clearly fine, but one with a moderate number of 1-star ratings is not, despite having the same average ranking. In the case of Uber/Ebay, the better question is a simple "Would you do business with this individual again?" For YouTube, the public dislike would be better replaced with something like "report content," followed by a choice of "clickbait/inaccurate content/hate speech."

[Dylan16807]

> Or do you truly believe that video was somehow literally the worst video on Youtube?

It has the most downvotes but it definitely doesn't have the worst ratio. The many likes and many dislikes don't suggest "worst video", and it's not the worst video, so all's good there.

[wruza]

If you want to remove tribalism by hiding a counter, they will pile up in the comments, upvoting one of those that says “disliked it, who same?” to the top. Fighting with it is just naive. It’s all real people, so love them as they are.

[beezischillin]

The interesting thing about that video was that the Internet took it as a win, YouTube apparently took it as a learning opportunity.