web When Do You Dislike YouTube Videos?

[Dark Horse 12,961]

Practically never. I rarely use any of the functions below an actual YouTube video, except maybe to subscribe to a channel if I find myself coming back to it a lot. If I don't like a particular video, I'm most likely just going to close out of it, simple as. The like/dislike bar doesn't really mean anything at the end of the day. It's just another measurement of how much attention your content has been getting.

 

Maybe some users consider it more important than that, but I've just never seen the necessary function behind it.

[AstroFX 8]

Easy, when I don't like the video I'm watching of course.

[Victoria Sponge 1,017]

I very rarely like or dislike a video. I like it if it's very well made or made me smile and I dislike it if it's a hateful or stupid video (as in it shouldn't have been made).

[Guest]

I don't touch these functions a lot of the time, but when I do dislike a video, it's mainly because of click bait. Sure, it's a tactic to get more views for your content, but don't mislead.

[Luigi 7,870]

Anything related to ****ty musicians such as Justin Bieber, Ke$ha, or the Backstreet Boys that I come across gets an automatic dislike.

 

Anything in support of Donald Trump, automatic dislike.

 

Anything that is just plain stupid and disturbing- Dislike.

[~Sassy Dashie~ 712]

I don't. I just leave without leaving a dislike because I'm never logged into my account.

[Sphinx-Ara 3,569]

My main reasons are:

- It is a repeat of something that has already been done to the death of it

- It is done badly (i.e editing etc)

- the sound and/or lighting is bad

- it is overly offensive (even if it is on purpose)

- It is clickbaity (the thumbnail has got nothing to do with the video)

- The youtuber is being really annoying and irritating (Markiplier, PwediePie, Keemstar etc)

[Pearl 23]

Most of the times I dislike them if the person talks WAAAY too much.

[Concerned Bystander 2,902]

I can generally tell from the title, thumbnail, channel and 'related videos' context if I'm going to really dislike a video, and in such instances, I simply won't watch it.  As such, it it is very rare for me to actually hit the thumbs down button.

 

I was however, one of the legion of people that downvoted the Ghostbusters 2016 trailer, because it just looked awful, the only thing I could think of while watching it was that it looked more a bad episode of Scooby Doo.

[EpicEnergy 23,218]

Never! I'm serious, I hardly ever dislike YouTube videos because if they are disappointing, annoying, and so forth, I just stop watching and move on to another video.

[Flying Pencil 3,024]

I never dislike any YouTube video. If they annoying or bland, than I'll just move on to another video that actually intrigues me

[Cash In 22,366]

I think there's only one or two videos I've ever disliked. If I don't like a video, I just move on and watch something I can actually enjoy.

[BritishBrony2012 820]

I dislike videos that something I don't like to see and hear

[Savy 5,078]

I rarely ever dislike videos, if ever lol.

[Lunaholic 899]

Almost never. Only when the video titles are misleading or clickbaits. Some famous youtubers are doing this constantly as well. Very annoying

[Pentium100 2,129]

I don't "dislike" videos and I very rarely "like" them.

The reason I don't "dislike" is that I just stop watching and just go watch or do something else if I don't like the video.

[Sonic Shimmer 4,132]

Pretty much never. If I'm not enjoying a video I'll just watch something else.

[IronM17 5,389]

I never liked or disliked a video. I am not a fan of this thumps up thumps down or stars system you have on so many internet sides. For me eprsonal, when I find something really good, than I write it in a comment, and when I find something bad, I also write it down (in a constructive way) because in my opinion, such a rating system says nothing why I like or dislike something. And the creator is not helped in my opinion when you have upvotes or downvotes. But words do. And when a video is that bad or even a clickbait video or something similar, then I just stop watching it.

[Tom Gallagher 33,588]

I normally don’t do that unless it’s being genuinely disrespectful towards something I’m fond of.

[Misty Shadow 7,902]

Rarely, usually only when, like many people have already said, the content is clickbait or misleading. Never dislike videos simply because I disagree with them, the video has to be pretty poorly made with terrible points for me to even consider that. 

[LaFleur 24]

Very seldom. Very seldom.

[Sir Hugsalot 9,348]

Rarely and only if their content is purposely designed to be offensive or otherwise harmful. That applies to all sorts of pseudoscience and fake news too. With that in mind I still am much happier to just report this kind of stuff and that rarely happens, because I am simply not looking for it  

When I don't enjoy something I just... don't do anything at all. 

[ExplosionMare 18,064]

I usually dislike if something is boring or it’s disappointing or unhelpful in some way

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,540]

I dislike videos when someone talks in a negative way of some video games I like