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On December 13, 2021, YouTube made a major policy change with respect to the visibility of video dislikes. Citing the need to protect the well-being of individual content creators, YouTube stated that dislike information will only be visible to the video owners thus abolishing a decade-long tradition of publicly visible, anonymous outlet for user dissent. This paper makes two key contributions. First, it releases a valuable dataset of dislike information from 8.3 million videos gleaned from 159 popular news and debate outlets to characterize and chronicle the dislike behavior on YouTube. Second, it quantifies and investigates the information gap that this policy change leaves us with.

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Anonymous Dissent in the Digital Age: A YouTube Dislikes Dataset

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年

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  • Sujan Dutta,
  • Mallikarjuna Tupakula,
  • Sumeet Kumar,
  • Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh

摘要

On December 13, 2021, YouTube made a major policy change with respect to the visibility of video dislikes. Citing the need to protect the well-being of individual content creators, YouTube stated that dislike information will only be visible to the video owners thus abolishing a decade-long tradition of publicly visible, anonymous outlet for user dissent. This paper makes two key contributions. First, it releases a valuable dataset of dislike information from 8.3 million videos gleaned from 159 popular news and debate outlets to characterize and chronicle the dislike behavior on YouTube. Second, it quantifies and investigates the information gap that this policy change leaves us with.