YouTube founder talked about the ‘dislike’ feature!

One of the world’s most popular video streaming platforms YouTube, With a statement on November 10, 2021, he made a statement for the dislike button. One of the founders of the platform, who announced that he will hide the number of dislikes of the videos in the new period. Jawed Karimbroke his silence on the matter.

Karim: ‘YouTube didn’t make the right decision’

in February 2005 Steve CahenChad Hurley and Jawed Karim Founded by YouTube, the world’s second most visited website, YouTube currently reaches more than two billion users per month. Just a year after its founding by Google for $1.65 billion YouTube, which was purchased, has been managed by Google since then and periodically offers different features to users.

Karim, who made a statement about the fact that YouTube hides the dislike numbers in the new period, as of the day, He found the decision of the company very wrong. and argued that this would do more harm than good for content producers as well.

Here are Karim’s explanations:

“Why is YouTube making this unpopular change? There’s a reason, but it’s not a good reason and it’s not something to be made public. Being able to detect bad content easily and quickly is a key feature of the user-generated content platform. So why? Because not all user-generated content is good.”

Jawed Karim

This kind of exit isn’t the first time YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim has made a statement. in 2013 The company that integrates YouTube with Google+, It required all users to have a Google+ account to comment on videos.

The first video uploaded to YouTube on the same day. ‘Me at the Zoo’ Commenting on the video (Me at the Zoo), Karim questioned quite sternly why he had to have a Google+ account to be able to comment on the videos.

So what do you guys think about Jawed Karim’s debut? Do you think removing the dislike feature is a wrong decision? Do not forget to share your views with us in the comments section.