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As utterly brazen, shameless and just completely and utterly unself-aware as this is, look on the bright side. A quick glance at the like/dislike ratio and comm

As utterly brazen, shameless and just completely and utterly unself-aware as this is, look on the bright side. A quick glance at the like/dislike ratio and comments shows, most people are not impressed with that kind of bullshit. People aren't buying it and overwhelmingly seem to recognize what shitty hypocritical utterly bullshit behaviour youtube engages in.

ihsw 6y ago
Dislikes will not be possible in the future: https://nypost.com/2021/03/31/youtube-is-testing-removal-of-the-dislike-counter-on-videos/ https://nypost.com/2021/03/31/youtube-is-testing-removal-of-... Also, somewhat interestingly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-disliked_YouTube_videos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-disliked_YouTube_...
- grawprog 6y ago
  I'm honestly surprised the comments have been allowed to remain on for this video. At this point, they're kinda damned if they do, damned if they don't. Turning off dislikes and comments on the video would prove their hypocrisy, but leaving it on shows just how much people hate it. I've never seen that list before...apparently people really hate cocomelon nursery rhymes...it shows up 11 times in that list.
  - eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
    > apparently people really hate cocomelon nursery rhymes...it shows up 11 times in that list. There's a really plausible explanation for huge dislike ratios on videos for children: Very young children don't understand the UI, they just randomly mash buttons. So a 50/50 like/dislike ratio would represent that randomness.
    - grawprog 6y ago
      Fair enough, that does make sense, still, they seem to show up in particular. I'm guessing there's many channels for children's music.
- compiler-guy 6y ago
  "may not be possible."
elliekelly 6y ago
I have nothing nice to say about any Google-owned company but is this really all that different from $city’s Best $business or literally any other corporate “award” that’s nothing more than thinly-veiled advertising? At least YouTube had the good sense to cut out the marketing middle man and just award it to themselves.
- grawprog 6y ago
  Usually when that kind of corporate feelgood bullshit happens though, it's not publicized and isn't done in such an in your face, 'lol fuck you everybody' kind of way. Like literally describes while receiving the award how censorship and pandering to corporate advertisers is free speech. Also, typically, most of the time, the thousands of people directly negatively affected by the reason for the award aren't able to publicly display their disgust.
- jjeaff 6y ago
  No, it would be a lot more like a city creating a Best City in America award and then awarding it to themselves.

ihsw 6y ago

Dislikes will not be possible in the future: https://nypost.com/2021/03/31/youtube-is-testing-removal-of-the-dislike-counter-on-videos/ https://nypost.com/2021/03/31/youtube-is-testing-removal-of-... Also, somewhat interestingly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-disliked_YouTube_videos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-disliked_YouTube_...

grawprog 6y ago
I'm honestly surprised the comments have been allowed to remain on for this video. At this point, they're kinda damned if they do, damned if they don't. Turning off dislikes and comments on the video would prove their hypocrisy, but leaving it on shows just how much people hate it. I've never seen that list before...apparently people really hate cocomelon nursery rhymes...it shows up 11 times in that list.
- eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
  > apparently people really hate cocomelon nursery rhymes...it shows up 11 times in that list. There's a really plausible explanation for huge dislike ratios on videos for children: Very young children don't understand the UI, they just randomly mash buttons. So a 50/50 like/dislike ratio would represent that randomness.
  - grawprog 6y ago
    Fair enough, that does make sense, still, they seem to show up in particular. I'm guessing there's many channels for children's music.
compiler-guy 6y ago
"may not be possible."

elliekelly 6y ago

I have nothing nice to say about any Google-owned company but is this really all that different from $city’s Best $business or literally any other corporate “award” that’s nothing more than thinly-veiled advertising? At least YouTube had the good sense to cut out the marketing middle man and just award it to themselves.

grawprog 6y ago
Usually when that kind of corporate feelgood bullshit happens though, it's not publicized and isn't done in such an in your face, 'lol fuck you everybody' kind of way. Like literally describes while receiving the award how censorship and pandering to corporate advertisers is free speech. Also, typically, most of the time, the thousands of people directly negatively affected by the reason for the award aren't able to publicly display their disgust.
jjeaff 6y ago
No, it would be a lot more like a city creating a Best City in America award and then awarding it to themselves.