YouTube's decision, announced on 10 November 2021, to hide public dislike counts on all videos while keeping the button, framed as protecting small creators from 'dislike attacks' and received as protecting large corporations from honest feedback. The record notes the platform's own 2018 Rewind was, at the time, the most-disliked video on the site, and that the connection was drawn by everyone.
The record remembers the week after, when the co-founder Jawed Karim edited the description of 'Me at the Zoo' to object, and when a browser extension arrived within days to put the number back. The record notes the number is still there, for those who ask.
Correction: the source line credits the wrong place. It was already circulating in a smaller community before the platform on file picked it up. Attribution follows attention, not origin.
Working definition, for the file: Dislike Button Removal is what you call it once you have seen it three times in one day and twice from people who should know better.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
