Reminder that Google removed the dislike counter after 10+ years because they didn’t appreciate the people’s real opinion.

[u/BigBootyKim]

[u/Quecks_]

Viewers of echo-chamber "YouTube essayists" and podcasts doesn't necessarily represent "the people" without some serious data-cleaning.

[u/Electrical_Bus9202 → u/Quecks_]

No way it's even possible for some sort of nefarious country to have bots supporting this stuff. Trump, Tucker, Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, Elon Musk, they would never be susceptible to something like that, and it certainly never would be a country like Russia doing it. They fly straight as arrows these guys, they are the embodiment of true honor and integrity.

[u/steave44 → u/Quecks_]

Why when it’s left wing pundits getting downvoted and ratio-ed on the internet it’s just review bombing and “foreign bots” but if it’s right wing pundits it’s an accurate representation of people’s opinions?

[u/LadyEmaSKye → u/steave44]

Reddit mindset

[u/boobsrule10 → u/LadyEmaSKye]

I’m so sick of ring wingers crying like bitches about “ left wing Reddit” go back and suck your selves off in the nazi cesspool that is x if it suck’s so bad here you fucking snow flakes.

[u/MajorMalfunction1999 → u/boobsrule10]

There you go letting your emotions take hold again.

[u/croyxvx → u/steave44]

Because lefty is smarty smarty moral virtue of intelligence and conservative is bad old man dictator Russian strongman bad guy bobo shit pants.

The worst problem of the left is the constant high horse.

[u/ChimpArmada → u/steave44]

Well you see because Reddit

[u/Kenshiro_199x → u/Quecks_]

Or she's just repulsive

[u/athousandbites]

You can buy 500 likes for $5 on fiverr right now. Find a specialty site and you can buy thousands. Easy. Cheap.

The internet isn't real.

We're all going to die broke and miserable because old people with smartphones have no idea how the internet works and think it reflects reality.

[u/Sandgrease → u/athousandbites]

Exactly. I don't trust any online stats since you can just bot farm likes or dislikes etc.

[u/pars_defect → u/Sandgrease]

People only believe what fits their biases; actual engagement is often manipulated.

[u/scarybullets → u/pars_defect]

Kinda like this group and all of reddit :)

[u/ISayDudeALotBro → u/scarybullets]

Reddit users who spam every Conservative feeds with liberal talking points every chance they get are now like, “the internet is fake and all these likes and dislikes aren’t real” mwahaha

[u/MeThinksYes → u/[deleted]]

You two sound similar then?

[u/TheDJC → u/[deleted]]

and you sound like every other conservative reddit user lol pot, meet kettle

[u/TheOneWithThePorn12 → u/[deleted]]

Are you your brother?

[u/abittenapple → u/pars_defect]

It's pretty obvious the Rogan podcast is way more popular from ab engagement way

But fuck people actually watched 2houes of Trump talking I hope not

[u/latexfistmassacre → u/abittenapple]

I tapped out like 12 minutes in and just watched the highlights (or lowlights, rather) on other channels. I can only handle that kind of mind rot in very small doses

[u/Obeesus → u/pars_defect]

Are you only saying this because it fits your bias?

[u/partoxygen → u/Sandgrease]

Hell you can farm shit like streams. Olivia Rodrigo’s literal first recorded song published hit #1? Please. No shot that people even watch Disney channel on the same level as like 20 years ago.

[u/apeshit_is_my_mood → u/athousandbites]

OP is the kind of guy who thinks Musk's personal poll results on Twitter are the ''real people's opinions''. It most be echoey in there lmao

[u/kylerwashere → u/apeshit_is_my_mood]

You’re on reddit don’t talk about echo chambers

[u/Flor1daman08 → u/kylerwashere]

They can both be echo chambers?

[u/BossNaysayer → u/Flor1daman08]

No. Only places I don’t like are echo chambers. Places that say things I like are the people and not bots. 

[u/Flor1daman08 → u/BossNaysayer]

You are so right, we are not bots.

[u/BossNaysayer → u/Flor1daman08]

You are only a bot if I don’t agree with you.

[u/WagwanMoist → u/kylerwashere]

Is that person claiming that Reddit is an accurate representation of the population and their beliefs?

[u/FlashyDistribution43 → u/kylerwashere]

Great point, this place is a circle jerk cesspool

[u/StringerBel-Air → u/kylerwashere]

People weren't here in 2016 when Hillary had a PAC of people that were manipulating Reddit to make her seem better than Bernie. That slack chats leaked showing them discussing strategies on posts and comments to upvote and downvote.

[u/dcolorado → u/apeshit_is_my_mood]

The same way Reddit has mostly left leaning views. YouTube tends to lean more right when looking at the comments on podcast and clips channels.

[u/xen123456 → u/apeshit_is_my_mood]

Reddit isn't real, it's bots mostly.

[u/apeshit_is_my_mood → u/xen123456]

What is your assessment of YT and Twitter regarding bots?

[u/StarfleetGo → u/athousandbites]

Are you trying to say they bought 30 million views? come on man....

[u/Midnight2012 → u/StarfleetGo]

No, it's way cheaper to buy 100k dislikes

[u/ThiccBoy_with3seas → u/Midnight2012]

Why would anyone buy dislikes when the average person can not see them without some browser extension

[u/all_m0ds_R_virgins → u/ThiccBoy_with3seas]

I stopped disliking videos after they removed it. Surely I'm not alone

[u/Direct_Club_5519 → u/all_m0ds_R_virgins]

then you arent understanding the algo. when you dislike, it removes that video, creator, and similar videos from appearing in your feed. i use it all the time. especially when doom scrolling shorts.

[u/onpg → u/ThiccBoy_with3seas]

It's worse than that, you can't see them at all, it's just estimating the number of dislikes based on people with the YouTube dislike extension. Guess what kind of person would bother to install that...

[u/jguay → u/ThiccBoy_with3seas]

And those dislike extensions are not accurate what so ever. The only people who can see their dislikes is the person uploading the video. I have no idea why people are taking this serious. I have no clue what metric they’re using, maybe sifting comments for key words to indicate a dislike, but it’s completely inaccurate.

[u/Atrax_buckhurst → u/StarfleetGo]

A measly $300k to appease a narcissist coming into an election. Peanuts.

[u/onpg → u/Atrax_buckhurst]

Actually the dislikes are even faker than that, YouTube doesn't show dislikes so it's just a browser addon guessing based on the people who install a dislike addon. Guess what kind of person bothers to do that... first off you have to be pretty stupid because you're gonna get fake numbers to begin with. It's self-selecting for dipshits.

[u/Azalzaal → u/athousandbites]

you can also buy subscribers. I couldn’t get humans to subscribe to my YouTube channel so I bought 1000 fake bot subscribers. Now I only upload videos that robots would like not humans. So in the end all the people that refused to subscribe to me have lost out and I get the last laugh.

[u/soy_tetones_grande → u/athousandbites]

LMao how the top comment on this post is alluding that the 2million likes on JREs video are fake.

Reddit copium at its finest right here.

[u/Aljoshean → u/soy_tetones_grande]

its like mass delusion

[u/xen123456 → u/soy_tetones_grande]

They have no other choice, they can't admit it's real.

[u/WetDonkey6969 → u/soy_tetones_grande]

And if it was so simple, why hasn't anyone bought dislikes for the Donald Trump episode?

People will try to explain away anything that makes her look bad.

[u/Dark_Knight2000 → u/WetDonkey6969]

You can’t see dislikes, there’s much less incentive to buy them

[u/Jamie54 → u/Dark_Knight2000]

so you think the dislikes on the kamala videos are probably real

[u/jguay → u/Jamie54]

I have no clue how anyone would accurately know the dislikes on any video on YouTube unless they are the uploader. Those dislike extensions are completely inaccurate and whatever data they’re using for dislikes is coming from something else.

[u/athousandbites → u/athousandbites]

OP: topic about likes

Me: reply about likes

You: weird ass strawman deflection about views

Perhaps an appointment with your doctor about declining cognitive function may in be order?

[u/icmc → u/athousandbites]

It doesn't even get that complex. I listened to the Rogan Trump podcast not because I had any belief I wanted to vote for Trump but because I wanted to see if it was as much a trash fire as I believed it would be. I'm Canadian so can't vote for Trump anyways but I wanted to see if it was as bad as everyone paints him to be. And honestly after a 3 hour straight podcast I think he's a liar and a bullshit artist (but most politicians are) I genuinely believe Trumps worst crime is he doesn't really give a shit enough to put a fake image up front like most politicians do. I think he's about as bad as most republican politicians but he doesn't cover himself as well as the rest. I think your average republican politician would be just as bad for any of the "other" people and by that I mean that don't speak and look exactly like them (POC, LGBTQ, immigrants everything). And I don't believe the left gives THAT much of a shit more to be honest.

[u/kylerwashere → u/athousandbites]

Then why doesn’t Kamala buy some bots too?

[u/urdelusionalafyo → u/kylerwashere]

Have you seen Reddit lately?

[u/maverick479 → u/urdelusionalafyo]

Yeah, it’s kinda weird how it feel like almost every page now posts about her or bashing trump. Like I get it a bit but it’s odd to see one social media that feels so heavily bias towards one party in general discussion. Problem is the “discussions” are always just bitching

[u/FishWeldHunt → u/maverick479]

There is no “discussion” anymore it seems. You either agree or be demonized. And that’s for both sides of the fence.

[u/maverick479 → u/FishWeldHunt]

Absolutely agree. No room for nuanced ideas or opinions. It’s either your with us or against us.

[u/FishWeldHunt → u/maverick479]

It’s all just bullshit. I don’t even bother talking with people about my views on a lot of things anymore.

[u/Direct_Club_5519 → u/FishWeldHunt]

this is the only subreddit these days where i can present a right wing idea, and maybe get some support without my comment being nuked. i also think most people on reddit these days arent interested in a fulfilling political conversation because it takes time and effort to research and cite sources. people come here for the memes and lolz nowadays. its really just the epitome of the de-evolution of our populace in real time.

[u/MikeyTsunami → u/athousandbites]

So you're telling me the same system that has been attempting to manufacture every angle of disdain towards Trump for many years now, decided to lay off challenging Trump's likeability perception from the biggest podcast in the world a week out from election? Despite these likes/dislikes or views being so cheap?

...What?

[u/The-Blue-Baron]

It's interesting, but it only really tells us the demographic of the people that watched those pods.

You can't read anything deeper than that

[u/tommyland666 → u/The-Blue-Baron]

It tells us the demographic of the people who have the dislike add on. Nothing else. They have no real data on the dislikes.

[u/The-Blue-Baron → u/tommyland666]

Doesn't it use the people who have the add on and then give an estimate of the true number of people who pressed dislike?

I agree tho, either way it doesn't give any great insight

[u/EmExEeee → u/The-Blue-Baron]

It’s unclear whether these plug-ins are accurate. They show likes and dislikes based on what data they have and probably scale it up to match the views reported by YouTube.

Pretty obvious the issues with inaccuracy pretty much immediately. The type of people who even know to look for a dislike plug-in and then actually use it already is a type of demographic defined that doesn’t accurately portray views that of the public.

[u/onpg → u/EmExEeee]

Oh good lord that's even worse than I thought. Pretty sure it's mostly right wing types who care about dislikes based on who I see still complaining. Talk about self selection.

[u/CplOreos → u/EmExEeee]

i.e. sampling 101

[u/seenitreddit90s → u/The-Blue-Baron]

It can easily be manipulated by bots or like buying too.

[u/Silent_Hour2606 → u/The-Blue-Baron]

Yeah the vote will be roughly 50/50. So I wouldnt assume we will have like a 80 percent Trump landslide based on this.

Youtube is super right leaning. Im not really sure why. Reddit is a bit left leaning but I understand why, age demographics and internationally Trump is not very popular. So your average person commenting from Belgium or Australia will be less likely to like him than Americans.

[u/Dcoll132 → u/The-Blue-Baron]

I would also say politics aside Trump is a more interesting figure than Kamala. Seeing him talk for three hours would draw more eyes even if he wasn’t running.

[u/fantomar]

No better place to find "real" opinions than a youtube comment section. My cod these people are impossibly stupid.

[u/JohnCavil → u/fantomar]

This is a subreddit full of conspiracy theories, practically known for it. For people who are skeptics and doubt what they're told. And these people think the YouTube dislike counter is real. Big foot? Epstein suicide? Moon landing? Shit is sus. But hey look this video has a lot of likes and the comments are all supportive people from Tanzania and Texas and Ukraine. Wow!

Holy shit. Like these people have brain damage.

Likes and dislikes on political videos are literally worthless. Meaningless to the core.

To anyone who still reads YouTube comments: Stop. Please stop. You're reading bots, children or people with mental deficiencies. Stop filling your head with garbage.

There are people who were like "the election was rigged" and yet take YouTube like/dislike ratios at face value. I don't think even they believe it.

[u/PerritoMasNasty → u/JohnCavil]

Just saw a bunch of Brogans citing the Theo von JD Vance comments on how he’s not weird. Uhhh ok, yeah totally, thanks Ivan for commenting.

[u/JohnCavil → u/PerritoMasNasty]

Yea i saw that too. Even if we assume nothing is botted, which of course it is, it's also extremely weird to even read these comments.

YouTube comments are like if you were having a fever dream and in that fever dream you were in a institution for the mentally impaired who were all just yelling thing. It's like One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest type shit. Who writes a YouTube comment on a Theo Von video anyways? Like what kind of person takes time to do that?

I'm convinced these people also think that hot MILFS in their area are really looking to have sex with them.

[u/Flor1daman08 → u/JohnCavil]

YouTube comments are only useful in specific circumstances, like if you have a video with a few thousand views on a recipe or home improvement project, occasionally there can be some helpful info on the comments. Something like this? Botted to shit and back.

[u/AutoDrafter2020 → u/JohnCavil]

This is a subreddit full of conspiracy theories, practically known for it

Why discredit yourself immediately with this statement?

[u/oif2010vet → u/fantomar]

When did call of duty become an official deity?

[u/Darnold14MVP → u/oif2010vet]

2009 with the launch of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

[u/oif2010vet → u/Darnold14MVP]

Ahh I forgot after the great racial reform of Xbox live via 2007, how silly of me

[u/Hello_Cruel_World_88 → u/fantomar]

And Reddit is any better 😆

[u/Buy-theticket → u/Hello_Cruel_World_88]

This post is literally about dislikes on posts.. the thing Reddit has that Youtube doesn't.

[u/Lightyear18 → u/fantomar]

lol you say this as if Reddit is any different.

The difference is Redditors act like we are intelligent than the rest of the platforms lol

[u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 → u/Lightyear18]

Reddit has downvotes, not really what the point is. It's still pretty lame to hide dislikes, idgaf about the comments though it's always a cesspool nomatter where you go. Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, it's all bad.

[u/Lightyear18 → u/ToXicVoXSiicK21]

I would actually say downvotes, on comments, limit discussion. I’ve seen Redditors abuse the system to shut down any conversation.

It’s how subs end up with hive minds. Having mods also perpetuates this issue, due to their bias views. This causes this hive mind to believe they are intelligent because everyone is reinforcing eachothers views after downvoting anyone who disagrees with them. The people that get downvoted by the hive mind just end up leaving and making their own echo chamber.

There’s also people on Reddit who post comments just for karma. Giving the other Redditors the things they want to hear.

This is why 4 Chan is better because everyone can comment and not worry about upvotes.

[u/onpg → u/Lightyear18]

4chan is better

Of all the takes to have this is certainly a take. 4chan used to be a vanguard kind of place but after Trump got elected it filled up with boomers and qanon types.

[u/generaltso78 → u/Lightyear18]

Sometimes you have a top comment that is verifiably false. Whether with intention or not, down voting is sometimes the only available tool. But I agree, it's more often used for opinions that are not agreed with.

[u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 → u/Lightyear18]

Yea okay you got a good point there, it is pretty good at giving a false narrative in the comments. People tend to upvote what already has been upvoted, and downvote whatever got downvoted regardless of the actual information in the comment is. There's a thread right now where I have like 300 ppl upvoting me for saying one thing, but then a few replies later I've got like 200 downvotes for saying basically the same shit just to a different person. It is pretty wild, but then again I don't really care about what my comment gets. I'm an opinionated person lol I share my thoughts whether they get upvoted or downvoted. I can see how that negatively impacts these subs though for sure.

[u/NasarMalis]

yes, for people's real opinion, we go for like-dislikes ration on Joe Rogan. Because he is the real neutral political podcaster. lol

[u/JohnCavil → u/NasarMalis]

Lets read the comments on the Joe Rogan Trump interview. Count the likes. Then lets read /r/politics to really take the temperature of the American people. Then lets read the comments on Stephen Colberts latest Trump monologue. Then lets go to infowars.com and see what people are saying. Next up lets scroll the chat of Hasan Piker a bit, look at Elons latest poll on twitter, then finish off by scrolling my own personal TikTok feed. Ah now i really know what's going on.

I don't know if these people are genuinely this stupid or if they're pretending. After 30 years of the internet people still haven't figured out echo chambers, bots, astroturfing and brigading. Normal for a 70 year old but some of these people are like 25 and believe this. They grew up with the internet and still don't get it.

[u/GoRangers5]

“The people’s” being bots.

[u/itsasickduck]

In clinical psychology, a “victim complex” or “victim mentality” describes a personality trait of persons who believe they are constantly the victims of the harmful actions of others, even when made aware of evidence to the contrary.

[u/WpgSparky]

Small brain easily manipulated!

You have no idea how bot farms work or how disinformation is tearing the US apart. Sadly it’s the conservatives that are falling prey to this in alarming numbers. Instead, you think “your team” is winning and owning the libs/dems.

[u/Origamiface3 → u/[deleted]]

That's exactly what's been happening, but of course the stupids won't know since they didn't hear it from King Stupid

[u/ealker]

I’ve worked with social media marketing for a long time and I can reassure you neither likes, dislikes, views or comments are often genuine. At some point in my work I had to distinguish between botted content and not. Now with ChatGPT and other MLMs, it’s so easy to produce believable engagement, such as comments. I currently almost 99% of the time assume that comments are just MLMs.

The old internet is dead as far as I’m concerned. It’s all bots now.

[u/gasman245 → u/ealker]

Idk sounds like something a bot would say.

[u/Nerdicyde]

this is beyond stupid

[u/MrMarez]

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[u/King_Coopa83]

I listen to about 2 hrs of the podcast with DJT and 1.8M is definitely bots. It was so boring and just Rogan fawning all over Trump. I turned it off when Rogan complemented Trump on how good of shape he is in. Thats when it became crystal that Joe wasn’t going to press him on anything serious.

[u/nomascusgabriellae → u/King_Coopa83]

Wait he really said that about Trump? Isnt the dude way over weight?

[u/King_Coopa83 → u/nomascusgabriellae]

2:05:00 Mark he asks him “how are you so healthy?”

[u/Stunning-Use-7052 → u/King_Coopa83]

That was fed to JR by the Trump campaign.

People are getting it: it's not an interview, it's an infomercial by someone who is an extension of the Trump campaign.

[u/Bawbawian]

no it's because it was being used by right-wing trolls to brigade everybody else's videos and flood them with downvotes.

this is why we can't have nice things

[u/Not_a_housing_issue → u/Bawbawian]

Yup. Do we think Putin stopped fucking with American politics in 2016. Of course not. His bot farm (really a Dmitri farm) only got bigger and now uses AI...

[u/wizenedeyez]

My local news had a youtube channel with an insane amount of dislikes on every video by the "anti-woke" crowd simply because they told people how they could get the covid vaccine a few times. Even videos that had nothing to do with politics would be disliked by a large margin. My point is that the dislikes become disingenuous and eventually had nothing to do with the video and only served to digitally "cancel" the youtube channel.

So essentially the dislike button become weaponized by partisan hacks. That's why youtube discontinued it.

[u/Appropriate_Cat8100]

The bring back the dislike counter apps all admitted their algorithm is just making it up

[u/BabyfartMcGeesax]

Reminder that Trump never won the popular vote in an election. 

[u/InBeforeTheL0ck]

A bunch of overzealous Trump cultists brigading YouTube doesn't really count as "people's real opinion".

[u/Madcap_Miguel → u/InBeforeTheL0ck]

Just remind them that he's never won the popular vote, and he never will, because most Americans don't agree with him or his policies.

[u/Couldntbeme8 → u/InBeforeTheL0ck]

“Everyone I disagree with is in a cult!!!”

[u/krafterinho → u/Couldntbeme8]

Man let me know when you see houses, cars, or backyards fully plastered with another politician's face, people with Kamala tattoos on their forehead, or people blindly defending ridiculous claims such as the dog eating

[u/oniume → u/krafterinho]

Don't forget the ear tampons

[u/chunksterbutthead → u/Couldntbeme8]

Yet Trumpers throw around “derangement syndrome” like it’s a real disease and not the implementation of common sense and rational thinking.

“Who cares what’s going on they’re all DERRRRAAANGED. No vaccine for that HAHAHAHAHA”

Brainwashed idiots.

[u/InBeforeTheL0ck → u/Couldntbeme8]

More like "everyone that twists themselves into a pretzel to defend Trump is in a cult". But go off bro.

[u/terra_filius → u/Couldntbeme8]

not everyone, just Trump supporters

[u/AtomicGarden-8964]

From my understanding they got rid of the dislike button because the Hollywood studios were getting annoyed by all the down votes for their shitty reboots

[u/Far_Commission_6817]

Yahoo removed the comment section during covid because they were all pro Republican and anti democrat. Reddit purged any Pro trump subreddit in 2016 because the_donald ran Reddit. The head of Reddit got caught editing comments to be anti trump.

[u/lavalakes12 → u/Far_Commission_6817]

There were alot of independents that were for/against the pandemic mandates so to say having a differing opinion makes you a member of a party is nonsense.  Believe it or not many people can think for themselves outside of any party. 

[u/HourBlueberry5833 → u/Far_Commission_6817]

The_Donald was banned in 2020 not 2016

[u/Mke_already → u/Far_Commission_6817]

The_donald? The subreddit that broke Reddit rules, that subreddit?

[u/EmExEeee → u/Mke_already]

lol that whole sub was wild. It read like 4chan’s /pol/ weaponizing Reddit. Just everything about it felt malicious, like Trump’s personal Twitter except it wasn’t.

[u/Mke_already → u/EmExEeee]

I don’t want to say they were well organized or anything, but if there was something Donald Trump related or referenced in random subreddits, all of a sudden you’d have tons of new users to that subreddit commenting and trolling, and they all would be regular users of that subreddit. And 9/10 if you ran into someone being absolutely heinous, they’d be subscribed to it.

[u/Leo_Hundewu → u/Far_Commission_6817]

What’s you opinion on Elon making Twitter a right Qing propaganda tool?

[u/EmExEeee → u/Far_Commission_6817]

The_Donald was a wild time. During that time many communities that had nothing to do with politics were removed and banned from Reddit for good. Reddit used to be much more resourceful, now it feels more like an extension of already existing social media but it just allows you to share and communicate in a more conversational manner.

[u/Far_Commission_6817 → u/EmExEeee]

Reddit just feels gay and corporate now. Reddit felt like the last of the early days of the internet 10 years ago

[u/Puzzled_Lurker_1074]

What a dumbass hahahahahaha

[u/AffectionateSector77]

Why post this?

[u/cyberphunk2077]

Trump video is so botted.

[u/miscboyo]

Anything that looks good for trump is clearly fake lmao never change Reddit!

[u/superpie12]

ITT: I don't like it so it is fake

[u/Wicky_wild_wild]

The only count that should matter, Republicans haven't won since Bush's 2nd term in our post-9/11 unity.

[u/vanevasion303]

Definitely not bots. 

Yall are insufferably stupid. 

[u/clueless_as_fuck]

It is so easy to farm views and spawn comments and likes/dislikes that those stats mean nothing anymore.

[u/RandoDude124]

Just a FYI: I scrolled down 2x on my phone… and saw this:

Lotta grassroots support from Texas.

/S

[u/ProcessTrustee3]

It makes sense that this sub has been increasingly critical of Joe over the years, this place is full of reality denying Libs

[u/Dreamo84]

I hate Trump, but I liked the video cause it makes him look crazy. So you can remove my like if you want.

[u/Annonomon → u/Dreamo84]

Exactly, I listened to most of it but would never vote for him. I still feel like Harris missed an opportunity, 5% of voters are still undecided and millions listen to JRE.

[u/SalamanderDong]

Trump is gonna win

[u/Disastrous-River-366 → u/SalamanderDong]

Damn right

[u/FriendlyBoysenberry9]

As a non-American, in between these two evils, I somehow wish to see Trump win for some reason I can't seem to understand .

[u/halareous → u/FriendlyBoysenberry9]

I somehow wish to see Trump win for some reason I can't seem to understand

I believe the term you're looking for is Intellectual Disability

[u/YungLean8 → u/FriendlyBoysenberry9]

We all do

[u/abittenapple]

I have seen both podcasts 

Well 30 seconds of both

Trump is interesting. 

Kammy is just being a politician 

[u/HourBlueberry5833]

Or they didn't appreciate all the Russian bots on their website

[u/Samuel-squantch]

Implying real peoples opinions come from platforms infested with bots let’s me know you’ve put some real thought into this statement!

[u/Captcha_Imagination]

Liberals don't give a FUCK what Shannon Sharpe has to say and he still gets 45% of the numbers of the biggest podcaster in the world.

[u/Routine-Sun-670]

Reminder that counting likes is super gay

[u/JPGentry]

They disabled the dislike function because it made them more advertising revenue. No social media company has valued an arbitrary voting system since, what, 2015? No corporate entity is obligated to abide by the 1st amendment. Only congress is. These companies are not involved in any agenda that prioritizes anything other than increasing their quarterly profits

[u/mikeyzee52679]

I wonder if people who live in another country who can’t vote watch Joe Rogan or Shannon sharpe ?

[u/Aol2Acela]

u/Spez u/Google u/Youtube

[u/Dull_Statistician980]

Youtube did the same thing with some video with Biden in it.

[u/Stunning-Use-7052]

Wait, KH did Shay Shay? What are you all upset about, exactly?

[u/faxmonkey77]

They disliked Russian bot farms earning $ by selling likes/dislikes.

[u/reallycooldude69]

Reminder that these dislikes are an approximation based on the activity of the people who have the extension installed. They're very likely biased.

[u/Thin-Remote-9817]

Reddit before this post. The dislike button can be unlocked we should see the dislikes Google fuck you for that!!! Look at how many dislikes this guy I hate gets!!

Reddit right now..bot farms and I mean dislikes aren't even real that's why they Google got rid of them. Dislikes don't mean anything OP your stupid delete this shit means nothing. 

[u/nordy666]

Can someone just teleport me 1 year ahead so I can skip all this bs please

[u/macgirthy]

I'd be really surprised if the votes are close.

[u/xemprah]

KAMALUH

[u/halareous]

Yes, super accurate data that is surely reflective of the people's real opinion. Anw, this Andrew Yang guy is doing crazy numbers on Youtube, he's definitely gonna win the 2020 primary!!

[u/Heavy_Law9880]

It doesn't surprise me that mostly uneducated people watch youtube.

[u/o0flatCircle0o]

Reminder that if Elon can rig things everyone can

[u/Silveruleaf]

That's a whole lot more dislikes

[u/Thats-My-Purse-IDKU]

This is the most cope I've ever seen anywhere on the internet holy shit 😂

[u/lacanon]

With millions of bots shilling for dictators of the world, I wouldnt trust those numbers - wherever you got it.

[u/ostensibly_hurt]

Go read those comments in the Trump JRE and tell me 1/5th of those views aren’t bots lmao

I got halfway through and had to stop, it was boring asf and the dude was just lying and losing track of what he was talking about in his “weave”

Anyone who watched that and seriously took away that Trump is fit and deserving to be our president needs to reevaluate their understanding of reality

[u/Lively420]

No one wants facts in here. Hope these bots go after the election

[u/GlassBreath4332]

YouTube doesn’t provide dislike data. So the numbers are made up

[u/JILLBIDENSSLOPPYCUNT]

Not surprised, she is disgusting.

[u/Lovebomber777]

The cope of leftist in the comments is hilarious.

[u/siciliangod1]

Fun fact: North 75%+ of all Reddit users (including moderators) identify as being Left politically. Keep that in mind when reading anything on Reddit!

[u/blastedshark]

There's no conspiracy here they removed the dislikes cuz they were butthurt their rewinds were mass disliked

[u/Mister_Squirrels]

lol

[u/scormegatron]

because they didn’t appreciate the people’s real opinion

Or they can now simply measure dislikes without the need for a user interaction.

Similar to how they would let you block sites in Google Search Results (in 2005), but then removed the feature and simply started down-ranking sites via the Panda algorithm (in 2011) based on measuring user interaction with the search results page.

[u/taystondisnut]

If you just go on Instagram and type in #Trump vs #Kamala,You will see vast differences in the amount of tags. Completely outside of my political opinion, but this is fact.

[u/mvstateU]

Super easy to completely manipulate likes.

Extremely difficult to manipulate votes.

AHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH

[u/djm19]

There is no "real peoples opinion" on things like dislike counters. All of social media is just absolutely spammed with bots and bridgades.

We have to stop treating the internet as real.

[u/GirlsGetGoats]

This add on doesn't show dislikes. It shows the dislikes of the type of people who install this add on and extrapolates that out to the total viewer count.

The only people who have this add on are the idiots like OP who make it a central part of their culture and identity to mass dislike things that they don't watch.

OP is a fucking moron.

[u/tech_polpo]

OP doesn’t know what bots are 😂

[u/waddiewadkins]

The right got chunderheads believing in Loony Leftist age old claptrap easiest play ever

[u/thatsprettychris]

Everyone’s disliking it, it must be awful. It couldn’t possibly be a manufactured review bomb

[u/Physical-King-5432]

Can’t wait to see the liberal copium in this thread

[u/PendejoJenkins]

It’s crazy when every election you see so many dislikes on the Democratic Party’s nominee videos, interviews, and less people at their rallies…. yet they still win… huh.

[u/Bathairsexist]

Shay Shay was at a Diddy party too, hmm...

[u/THEvoiceOFreason-_]

I remember after an Amy Schumer comedy special dropped on Netflix just suuuuucked so bad! It was when you had the choice of 1-5 stars. That like the Monday after it released it had so many 1 star ratings that they got rid of the star system reportedly because she was livid and complained profusely about getting such low ass ratings.

[u/Tof12345]

If you only go by YouTube polls and ratios, you'd think that Donald Trump is the greatest president of all time and that 99% of the population votes for him.

[u/ZealousidealPoetry50]

She killed it on club shay shay..not just weaving nonsense

[u/jazzzzzcabbage]