YouTube Co-founder Protests Platform's 'Dislike' Move by Revisiting First-ever Video – News18

Screenshot shows first-ever image from YouTube’s first-ever video. Image credits: Jawed Karim/YouTube.YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim updated the description of the first video uploaded to the video platform titled ‘Me at the Zoo’ to criticize the platform’s decision to stop displaying dislikes publicly.News18.com Last Updated:November 17, 2021, 09:07 ISTFOLLOW US ON:YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim just ‘disliked’ this move. YouTube is rolling out a new feature where it will be hiding the public dislike counts on its videos in order to help protect smaller creators from distasteful comments or online harassment, a statement from the platform recently said. The new feature will be rolled out soon and only the content uploader will be able to see the dislikes in the video. This is, however not say that the actual dislike button will go away. Viewers can still dislike a particular video but it won’t be visible. The feature comes in the wake of an experiment YouTube had done earlier to check whether something like this with the ‘dislike’ button can help protect smaller content creators from harassment. Users often also indulge in purposefully disliking a video to rack up the numbers. A press release says that, YouTube “heard directly from smaller creators…
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