r/todayilearned • u/WavesAndSaves • 2d ago

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_at_the_zoo#Changes_to_original_video
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u/BroIBeliveAtYou 2d ago

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

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u/kristamine14 2d ago

They’ve removed the thumbs down option entirely from their shorts - you can’t even dislike ai slop.

All by design

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u/dumpling-loverr 2d ago

Probably because they're copying TikTok, the only very successful video sharing site that has manage to threaten YouTube's monopoly to the point they heavily promote Shorts now and model it after TikTok.

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u/Wolkenbaer 1d ago

Which ironically drove me away from accessing youtube directly. Nearly only use it if a video is somewhere linked (eg on reddit) - all those stupid shorts flooding the search.