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There's a site tracking these, some of the stats on older videos with high views are crazy (down the page): https://81m.org https://81m.org

ErikVandeWater 6y ago
It's interesting to compare this to the Trump Whitehouse Archive: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCITMedGC5PA-zMrLTH5-kg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCITMedGC5PA-zMrLTH5-kg Almost the exact inverse like/dislike ratio. Biden received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history, AND they should skew much younger than Trump voters. So why is it that the Biden White House channel struggles so much with likes vs dislikes?
- mrgill 6y ago
  YouTube transferred all the Trump's WH subs to Biden's WH - while Trump's WH had started with zero. Very stupid idea and apparently requested by the Biden admin. Now you have millions of Trump subs just disliking every video.
  - thirtythree 6y ago
    Oh well that explains it. I'm surprised they didn't see that coming.
  - noxer 6y ago
    This actually makes the most sense, although I'm p sure dislikes are not counted if you dont watch the video at least partially. But maybe the dislikers actually watch the Biden videos - who knows.
- colaclanth 6y ago
  Probably because Biden supporters are less 'online' and there aren't that many dedicated supporters of his (as in there are more people who simply think biden is better than the alternative than actually liking him). Contrasted to a personality like Trump who amassed an online dedicated cult following, in which they would literally try to decipher every word he said for hidden messages from the God emperor himself. In the same way that Twitter seems to be full of anti-capitalist anarchist communists, demographics of the real world turn out to be a lot different than social media makes it seem.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  > Biden received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history You mean Dominion voting machines recorded more votes for Biden than any other presidential candidate in history.
nigrioid 6y ago
Thanks for that! I'm glad to see a few people here who can tell something's going on.
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thirtythree 6y ago
Woah - that is surprising. I wonder what the cause of the dislikes is on these videos? Is it targeted or just no overlap from Biden supporters and YouTube? Or they're not happy with Biden. Very telling that YouTube are moving to remove the dislikes though..
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frongpik 6y ago
Looks like trolling to me. There's 95% dislike rate even for a mundane "paycheck protection bill".
- perryizgr8 6y ago
  How is it trolling?? The bill mentioned is a $484B expense!! It is not "mundane" at all. It is reasonable that a lot of taxpayers would be upset by the insane spending on inefficient government health programs.
- 81million 6y ago
  It is NOT trolling. I made the site. You can easily verify my data. - The hard way: Use YouTube's API to track the stats on one of the videos. Compare to my data, and the two will line up. - The medium-hard way: Over the course of a day or so, simply compare the official likes/dislikes that you see on youtube.com to my stats at 81m.org. You will see that my stats line up with the official numbers. It might be hard to believe at first, but I guarantee you that if you look into it, you will see that YouTube is deleting dislikes. There are tons of random threads about this on Twitter that are totally independent of my site 81m.org. (edit: add newline between list items)
  - akvadrako 6y ago
    I think he meant the dislikes were trolling, not your website. As another commenter mentioned, Biden inherited all of Trump's followers. Enough of them probably just downvote everything Biden posts, which one might call a very mild form of trolling.
    - 81million 6y ago
      I suppose that could be considered a very mild form of trolling. I guess the theory is that Trump's followers are force-joined into subscribing to the Biden White House's videos. So then they react by downvoting every unsolicited video that pops into their streams. And the response is to delete their downvotes? So I guess the message to them is, "You really must look at what the Biden White House has to say. Oh, but you're not allowed to express your opinion about it." Actually, you are allowed to click "dislike" and to feel like you expressed your opinion about each video, but later we will delete your opinion when you look away.

ErikVandeWater 6y ago

It's interesting to compare this to the Trump Whitehouse Archive: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCITMedGC5PA-zMrLTH5-kg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCITMedGC5PA-zMrLTH5-kg Almost the exact inverse like/dislike ratio. Biden received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history, AND they should skew much younger than Trump voters. So why is it that the Biden White House channel struggles so much with likes vs dislikes?

mrgill 6y ago
YouTube transferred all the Trump's WH subs to Biden's WH - while Trump's WH had started with zero. Very stupid idea and apparently requested by the Biden admin. Now you have millions of Trump subs just disliking every video.
- thirtythree 6y ago
  Oh well that explains it. I'm surprised they didn't see that coming.
- noxer 6y ago
  This actually makes the most sense, although I'm p sure dislikes are not counted if you dont watch the video at least partially. But maybe the dislikers actually watch the Biden videos - who knows.
colaclanth 6y ago
Probably because Biden supporters are less 'online' and there aren't that many dedicated supporters of his (as in there are more people who simply think biden is better than the alternative than actually liking him). Contrasted to a personality like Trump who amassed an online dedicated cult following, in which they would literally try to decipher every word he said for hidden messages from the God emperor himself. In the same way that Twitter seems to be full of anti-capitalist anarchist communists, demographics of the real world turn out to be a lot different than social media makes it seem.
redis_mlc 6y ago
> Biden received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history You mean Dominion voting machines recorded more votes for Biden than any other presidential candidate in history.

nigrioid 6y ago

Thanks for that! I'm glad to see a few people here who can tell something's going on.

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thirtythree 6y ago

Woah - that is surprising. I wonder what the cause of the dislikes is on these videos? Is it targeted or just no overlap from Biden supporters and YouTube? Or they're not happy with Biden. Very telling that YouTube are moving to remove the dislikes though..

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frongpik 6y ago

Looks like trolling to me. There's 95% dislike rate even for a mundane "paycheck protection bill".

perryizgr8 6y ago
How is it trolling?? The bill mentioned is a $484B expense!! It is not "mundane" at all. It is reasonable that a lot of taxpayers would be upset by the insane spending on inefficient government health programs.
81million 6y ago
It is NOT trolling. I made the site. You can easily verify my data. - The hard way: Use YouTube's API to track the stats on one of the videos. Compare to my data, and the two will line up. - The medium-hard way: Over the course of a day or so, simply compare the official likes/dislikes that you see on youtube.com to my stats at 81m.org. You will see that my stats line up with the official numbers. It might be hard to believe at first, but I guarantee you that if you look into it, you will see that YouTube is deleting dislikes. There are tons of random threads about this on Twitter that are totally independent of my site 81m.org. (edit: add newline between list items)
- akvadrako 6y ago
  I think he meant the dislikes were trolling, not your website. As another commenter mentioned, Biden inherited all of Trump's followers. Enough of them probably just downvote everything Biden posts, which one might call a very mild form of trolling.
  - 81million 6y ago
    I suppose that could be considered a very mild form of trolling. I guess the theory is that Trump's followers are force-joined into subscribing to the Biden White House's videos. So then they react by downvoting every unsolicited video that pops into their streams. And the response is to delete their downvotes? So I guess the message to them is, "You really must look at what the Biden White House has to say. Oh, but you're not allowed to express your opinion about it." Actually, you are allowed to click "dislike" and to feel like you expressed your opinion about each video, but later we will delete your opinion when you look away.