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Videos with a high number of dislikes are less likely to be recommended for people to watch and could eventually hurt the creator’s channel. Lest we forget, the whole point of having a dislike button to begin with is to be able to voice your displeasure with content that creators are putting out.
But in the day and age of participation trophies and millennial safe zones, even the little thumbs down button on YouTube is apparently becoming too offensive. While the company says these ideas are still just “lightly being discussed” they are offering creators the preference to indicate that they don’t want ratings on their videos, similar to the way comments can be disabled.