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Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me by corobo on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:37AM (#31326973)
For me at least the main problem isn't so much this person/channel, you can always tell YouTube to stop suggesting a channel. It's the people that now realise this is something YouTube allows (or at least doesn't seem to care about).

For a similar issue there was a plague of "Reply girls" for a while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_girl

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Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me by TheFreim on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:58AM (#31327181)
Relating to reply girls, I really loved YouTube's video response feature. It's understandable why it went away, but it was still really cool to be able to find responses to videos. Now if I watch a video arguing for X and want to see a response I have to search "Response to X" or "X rebutted" etc.
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Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me by Beltalowda on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @04:42PM (#31332426)
"Although many users would click the "dislike" button on the videos, this was interpreted by YouTube's algorithm as legitimate engagement, and the videos would be ranked more highly."

I literally facepalmed.

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