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  • 2021-12-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Does Rebecca Black's 'Friday' Have No Dislikes on YouTube? (en)
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  • On Dec. 6, 2021, a Reddit post seemed to indicate that Rebecca Black's 2011 song Friday had no dislikes on YouTube. It read: 1.3 million likes and no dislikes. This song must be a banger. However, u/sage6paths, the user who created the Reddit post, appeared to be making a joke and knew the truth of why her video showed no dislikes. Others on Reddit and in the video's YouTube comments also understood why the video showed no dislikes. However, some users were still perhaps perplexed. It's important to remember that not all readers are up-to-date on the latest tech news. Sometimes, the obvious is not always obvious to everyone. Here's why Black's Friday doesn't show a number next to the Dislike button. In November 2021, it was announced that the number of dislikes on all YouTube videos would be hidden from public view. This policy was put into place to dissuade users from banding together to harass content creators. The act of gathering together and coordinating dislikes is often referred to as brigading or ratioing. The idea from those seeking to ratio a YouTube video is to see how high they can get the clip's dislike count to be compared to the number of likes. (On Twitter, the aim of trying to ratio a tweet is to make it have more replies than it does retweets and likes.) For those unfamiliar with the Dislike button, it's shown under YouTube videos as a thumb pointing down: After the policy was put into place, a number no longer showed up for dislikes under Black's Friday or any videos at all. The Dislike button still showed up and functioned as usual. However, the public wouldn't be able to see the number. The dislike counts can now only be seen by content creators who have credentials to manage accounts. On Nov. 11, NBC News reported on how YouTube came up with the idea: Before YouTube enacted the new policy, Black's song Friday likely had around 4 million dislikes, according to several tweets we found. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0One past example of a YouTube video being brigaded was in the case of the Ghostbusters movie trailer in 2016. For the first time in the franchise, four leading women were cast in new roles instead of four men, which was believed to have led to a scourge of dislikes. In sum, it's not true that Black's song Friday had no dislikes. In reality, YouTube had previously removed the number of dislikes on all videos as part of a new policy. (en)
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