YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki talked about the dislike feature. Roof company Google, in an announcement published in November, said that the dislike button on YouTube is sometimes used to mass attack channels, and content producers had removed the dislike numbers to protect them from this.
Susan Wojcicki was a guest on podcaster Ludwig Ahgren’s new show. In the program, YouTube CEO, who made a statement on many issues from the Shorts platform developed by YouTube as a rival to TikTok, to NFTs, put the last point about the number of dislikes, which has been the focus of discussions since November.
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“We were aware that the decision would cause controversy”
Susan Wojcicki, “Why did you remove the dislike count?” “We were aware that this would create controversy. But we need to do what is right for the overall ecosystem on the platform.” she used the phrase. The YouTube CEO then talked about the dislike button’s impact on creators.
Susan Wojcicki stated that before making an innovation, they tried it in many different scenarios and tried to calculate how users would react. “Its [eski sistemin] we realized it had a bad effect on new creators” He argued that they should remove the dislike count to support small creators.
Wojcicki added that they have a hard time making such decisions, but they have to do it for the sake of creators on YouTube. In addition, it was created by bringing together the most popular content of 2018 and was bombarded with dislikes. YouTube Rewind 2018 He explained that he was very surprised that his video was not liked so much.
Good news for YouTube Shorts users
Google is trying to popularize the use of the short-form video format YouTube Shorts in many countries, including Turkey. pays creators up to $100 million. Susan Wojcicki stated that they have developed a brand new monetization system for Shorts in addition to this fund, but did not share the details of this system.
On the other hand, Wojcicki said that he also owns NFT, which stands for “unchangeable token” and described NFTs as an important monetization method. Although the removal of the number of dislikes drew the reaction of many users, the YouTube CEO closed this issue for discussion with his new statement.
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