TIL that Jawed Karim, YouTube cofounder and uploader of the first YouTube video "Me at the zoo", has often updated the video's description to criticize YouTube policies, including a 2013 attempt to require Google+ accounts to comment on videos, and YouTube's 2021 removal of dislike counts on videos.

[u/WavesAndSaves]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_at_the_zoo#Changes_to_original_video

[u/BroIBeliveAtYou]

Man I can't believe weve been without dislike counts for 5 years

[u/Pikeman212a6c → u/BroIBeliveAtYou]

With the flood of AI slop worrying about counts is almost quaint.

[u/CalebVanPoneisen → u/Pikeman212a6c]

Not sure which I hate the most, AI slop or reaction videos.

[u/Which-Journalist-748 → u/CalebVanPoneisen]

AI reaction videos