YouTube Removed ‘Dislike’👎Button Whatever next? 🙄

Breaking news! YouTube have just announced they are removing the dislike button. There are concerns for people's mental health and well-being and stress that the dislike button causes. So YouTube have just announced they're removing the dislike button. I believe there's 53,000 or so accounts. It's coming in in stages. But YouTube, they are removing the dislike button, so maybe I have to be careful here, and maybe some of the things I'm going to say people aren't going to like. I have never used the word snowflake, never ever ever used the word snowflake to anyone on social media or anything. I think it can be disrespectful. I think it cannot take into account someone's mental health and well-being and what they're going through. However, I am very scared for my children and my children's children if we get softer and softer and softer to the point where a dislike button on a social media platform can send us into a spiral of depression and stress and sadness and loneliness. So where does this end? I'd love to know your thoughts, by the way. This is breaking news. I'll give you the information in a moment. But whatever next. So we remove the dislike button, so we create content and people can only like it, they can't dislike it. Now I understand that there's some creatives that are saying this is really good because it removes the stress of people, you know, disliking your work, or dislike bombing, which I'll come to. But what happens when in real life You put your art in a gallery. Are there allowed to be no critics? Careful, you're not allowed to say that you don't like this art for fear of the well-being of the artist. Fucking hell. I mean, if I'd have gone to my dad and said, Dad, I'm quite ill at the moment and stressed because someone disliked my YouTube video. I mean, my dad's a northerner in England from Huddersfield. He'd have slapped me round the face and said, sort yourself out, son. What's next? Are we going to remove all unhappy emojis? Oh, the shocked face. That made me mentally ill. Remove it! Remove all negative sad emojis. Remove all disliked buttons. What about abbreviations? Are we going to remove all abbreviations? LOL, OMG, WTF, FML. Oh no, no, you're not allowed to say FML. Someone said SMH on my social media. I didn't know what it meant. It means shake my head. Oh Rob, I shake my head at you. What, so now that's going to cause me stress and illness? So people aren't going to be allowed to say WTF, OMG, WTAF, SMH? Now look, let me just tune you in. YouTube have just announced that they are removing their dislike button. And I'm going to read you the article in a moment and give you the full news. Um, someone has said here, pipe down, I seem to be too excited. Yeah, I get excited about this stuff, uh, and if you don't like it, you know where you can go. Um, but look, this person here said, pipe down, you seem to be way too excited. For fucks— FFS, I've got here on the live. Now, if I'm not strong enough to not take seriously a bit of criticism? Should I even be on social media? Is the issue even about the dislike button? Should I even be on social media? Now, I help entrepreneurs start and scale their business, get better financial knowledge, and I've always said, new level, new devil. Your reward for solving a problem is a bigger one, and you need criticism and challenge equally. You need people to push you down, you need people to lift you up. You need people to give you praise, you need people to give you criticism and feedback. If there is no criticism and feedback, you become cocky, complacent, lazy, arrogant. Rob, slow down. I just can't believe this though. Um, so are we at risk of creating a snowflake culture by removing dislike buttons. What is next? If we remove a dislike button and people now are, um, stressed because they're not getting enough likes, what do we remove next? Now, likes and dislikes are actually good because they're good feedback. So if you're finding this content useful, please give me a like. I actually would have no problem if there was a dislike button on Facebook. A dislike button on TikTok. I would have no problems if there's a like and a dislike button on my podcast. Why? Because I can see if the content is good or not. It's useful feedback for me. You measure the score relative of likes to dislikes to see if you need to improve the quality of your content. If you do not get feedback, you cannot grow. And what right do you have to expect everyone just to like your content and to not dislike it? For everyone to support you and not challenge you? What's going to be next? Are we going to ban all criticism? Are we going to stop people saying anything critical or negative just in case someone can't handle it? I would say to you, if a dislike click or a critic on social media ruins your day and ruins your mental health, You need to get off social media and you need to go and give yourself some kindness, some love, maybe speak to a therapist, maybe get, you know, a coach and actually deal with those issues. Because if you feel good enough about yourself, a like or a dislike, praise or criticism doesn't affect your self-worth. And I think we're becoming too soft. Are we becoming a snowflake culture? Let me know what you think. I think this is an interesting moral dilemma. Let me know what you think in the comments. Also, please share this video because when I look at things like this, I look at, is this the thin end of the wedge? It's not just what happens now, but what's next and what's next and what's next. Because, okay, you might remove the dislike button on YouTube, but then there's going to be people just chucking loads of, um, FML, WTF, OMG, Emojis, negative emojis, are we gonna ban negative emojis? Right, okay, my dad, if I'd have gone to my dad and said, Dad, I've had too many dislikes on my latest YouTube video, he would have slapped me across the room. Have we swung too far? Or do we really need to protect people's mental health? Is social media creating a new mental health challenge? Should I be a little bit more sensitive? Let me know what you think. Okay, right, let's get the article up and let's discuss it. Please hit the share button. These moral dilemmas, I think, are very important to discuss. By the way, as well, I have my views. Of course, you follow me, so you're probably interested in my views, but I'm always keen to hear the other side. If you think removing the dislike button is a good thing, if you think we need to protect people's mental health on social media because it's creating a lot of issues, Let me know in the comments. I was actually discussing and chatting and private messaging with Caroline Flack a few months and weeks before she committed suicide, and you would definitely argue the case that the intense trolling on social media was a massive part of that. But I think there's a difference between a dislike button and hardcore trolling. Trolling should be made illegal. Trolling is a fake profile set up to discredit you, to bully you online. That has been made illegal in the UK, that should be made illegal. You should report trolls, but someone hitting a dislike button is not a troll. So there's a line here where you sometimes maybe just need to toughen up a bit. And we take the risk here of going so far that no one can say anything. You know the whole point of political correctness, maybe it's gone a bit far now. You can't really say anything without being an -ist. You know, you can't really say anything without being a sexist, a racist, and anythingist. It's difficult now. Words change. Words— technicalities of words matter. Now I know that's a different subject, but the point is, where's the line here? All right, so YouTube removing dislike button discourages trolls but unhelpful for users. Yeah, I'm a shoutist. If you want to hit all the dislike buttons and troll me for shouting, become a shoutist, campaign against Rob for shouting, I'm all game. But here's the thing. If I was so weak, impressionable, and unsure of myself that if someone called me a shoutist, you know, that ruined my weekend and I had to go and see a therapist about that, I say this with kindness, I've become too soft. Should I even be on social media? Should I even be an entrepreneur? If you can't handle a critic, if you can't handle a dislike, should you be on social media and should you be an entrepreneur in the first place? Maybe there's other lessons you need to learn first. Okay, so YouTube users will no longer see how many dislikes a video got. I think that's really bad actually, because how do you know the ratio to dislikes to likes? All you're going to see is likes. Oh, look at me. Yeah, my likes are great. Oh, I'm amazing. 'Oh, look at me, my likes aren't great. Oh, I'm shit.' But if you don't know the ratio of likes to dislikes, you're missing a key performance indicator of whether your content is good or not. And you need feedback as to whether your content is good or not so you can adapt and evolve your content. And if you don't know the ratios of likes to dislikes, you can't evolve your content. So content will not improve on social media. So I agree that it's bad news. But let me know what you think. However, there is an interesting thing here— dislike bombing. The platform has said it's made the change to protect users from dislike bombing and to reduce stress and embarrassment. I would argue if a dislike gives you stress and embarrassment, you need to go and work on your self-worth. You need to take a bit of break from social media. You need to seriously think about being a creator and putting yourself on social media and starting and scaling your business. You probably need to work and develop your self-worth. You probably need to worry less about what people think about you, because otherwise social media is just going to exaggerate that. So dislike bombing is when there's a coordinated move for people to dislike a video to put off potential viewers. Now, I think dislike bombing is wrong. I think dislike bombing should be stopped. But surely YouTube can just stop dislike bombing. Its algorithm will work out when it's had a load of dislikes and just ban users. Why don't you protect us from the trolls? Instead of taking features away which are useful. Okay, some content— so I'm spitting over my words today, it's because I've got these new retainers in. It's nothing to do with me being shouty because I'm always shouty. I get passionate about this stuff. Let me know what you think in the comments. Is removing the dislike button good or bad? Do you think that we should be protecting people's mental health on social media, or do you think we've gone a bit far? And is this a little bit snowflakey, and is this a little bit soft? And when does it stop? You remove a dislike button, nothing changes. You ban negative emojis, nothing changes. You ban people saying FMLWTFOMFG, nothing changes. And then all you've done is remove people's freedom of speech because they can't say anything negative or critical. It's like someone walking into an art gallery and the curator of the art gallery says, "I just wanna let you know before you come in, our artists are a little bit insecure right now." So please don't say anything negative or critical about their art. What the fuck? Come on! Get real! Anyway, some creators have told Radio 1 Newsbeat the move is not very helpful. Hmm, what do you think? But others say it might help their mental health. You've got bigger problems in your mental health if a dislike button is going to affect how you feel about yourself. You are not your work. Your work is an expression of you, but it's not you. So if someone dislikes your work, they don't dislike you, they just dislike your work. I know this because I used to be an artist, and if anyone said, 'Oh, Rob, I don't really like your art,' or I overheard a conversation, it would put a dagger into my heart. It would ruin my soul. It would ruin my life. But that's only because I had low self-worth, and that was good, useful feedback for me. Because I believe the universe works such that if you don't master a problem in your life, the universe will keep It will keep chucking those problems at you in new forms, through new people, through new events until you transcend it. Will Smith says, "A problem is something you don't understand yet. It's simply something that you don't comprehend, and when you comprehend it and understand it, it's not a problem anymore." So instead of taking away things that give us useful feedback and challenge, why don't we teach each other how to handle challenge and feedback and criticism more effectively? Constructively. Because if you shy away from criticism, you'll never put any work out there. And when do you get to the point where you're taking people's freedom of speech away? You can't press a dislike button. You actually can't give criticism. You can't put FMLWTFOMG or negative emojis now in a post. Only positive. Okay, are we— is our culture too soft? Never used the word snowflake before, but I'm close to saying it's the snow, snow, snow, snow, woke, woke, woke, woke. I'm so close! Alright, however, I do agree with discouraging trolls. It will discourage a lot of trolling and a lot of mean-spirited people on the internet. I actually don't agree with that. Do you think a troll will give up? Oh, I've been busted by YouTube, I cannot be a professional troll anymore because the dislike button has gone. No, they'll just troll you in the comments. They'll just set up fake profiles. They'll just give you nasty feedback and criticism in the comments. It's not gonna discourage them. In fact, isn't it better for a troll to press a dislike button rather than, you know, call you all names under the sun? I've been called a bitch licker, a dick rider, Satan. Get called that quite a lot. I wanna boil Rob Moore's head in a vat of piss. I've heard that before. Actually, a dislike button would be— it would be easier. All right, so let me know what you think in the comments. Please hit the share button. I try to bring to you content that brings up these business, social media, and entrepreneurial moral dilemmas, as well as helping you start and scale your business and get better financial knowledge. Here's— oh, by the way, someone just put LOL dick rider there. So I, I remember this quote because it was one of my best trolling poems. Rob Moore is what's known as a dick rider. Dick riding is not yet an official sport. Were dick riding an official sport, Rob Moore would surely hop on for a ride. How can you not laugh at that? I mean, come on, if you can't take that kind of stuff, get off social media, go on a retreat, go and do a Wim Hof retreat or a meditation retreat or something. Come on, we, we're getting too soft, we're overprotecting people. You know, a law just got passed in Portugal. It's illegal for a boss to contact an employee after office hours. Illegal. Instead of saying to the employee, um, by all means do not open your emails or respond to your boss in office hours, or use your discretion around replying to your boss, instead of doing that Instead of teaching our employees to work on their own mental health and mindset, and if anything affects them mentally and emotionally, to be able to calm their mind and not take that personally, and to be able to tune off from work no matter what emails come in. Instead of that, we just ban the bosses from messaging the staff. It's a fucking ridiculous concept. We are losing our shit in society. We are too soft. We are becoming too weak. God, my dad, my dad would hate all this. All right, let me know what you think. Hit the share button, let's get this discussion going. Quick summary then: YouTube have now made the decision to remove the dislike button. They're trying to discourage trolls— can't see how that's going to happen, um— and they're concerned for stress and embarrassment of creators. I used to be an artist, old school, when you actually had to go to a gallery and people looked at your work and looked at you face to face and gave you feedback. And to remove a dislike button, it's like saying in an art gallery, "Just don't say anything critical about the art or about the artist because he's a little bit soft and sensitive at the moment and it's really gonna hurt his mental strength and stress and well-being." Come on! All right, yep. Let's read the whole article to you. YouTube removing dislike discourages trolls but unhelpful for users. YouTube will no longer see how many dislikes a video has got, or YouTube users. The platform says it's made the change to protect users from dislike bombing. I agree with that, but there's other ways to do that. The algorithm can work out dislike bombers easily. And to reduce stress and embarrassment for creators. I do not think, um, too many dislikes or a dislike button It should— it's stress and embarrassment. And if you get stressed and embarrassed from dislikes or, or mild criticism on social media, get off social media, sort yourself out, get a therapist, sort your, your mental strength out, and then come back. And I say that with absolute kindness, by the way, because you're in a difficult place if that's where you are. And I think sometimes society has got a bit soft on that. Dislike bombing is where there's coordinated move for people to dislike a video to put off potential viewers. Some content creators have told Radio 1 Newsbeat the move is not very helpful, but others say it might help their mental health. Let me know what you think about this in the comments. The change hasn't been rolled out fully yet. Here's— this is funny— and YouTube's announcement of the move has had 53,000 dislikes so far. That's funny. Content creators will still be able to see the total dislikes for their own videos. Ooh, discouraging trolls. It will discourage a lot of trolling and a lot of mean-spirited people on the internet that want to try and put down other people's creative work, says rapper Kenzo J. While I do believe that trolls should be banned, um, I think criticism is absolutely necessary for growth. Okay, dislikes stop clickbait. Many users have said they'll miss the dislikes totals There are loads of comments saying RIP dislikes on one of YouTube's most disliked videos ever, that got 5.6 million dislikes after he called on fans to dislike it, and this was PewDiePie. Cool, so let me know what you think, YouTube, of removing the dislikes button. Hit the share button. I'll get in the comments and go engage and discuss afterwards. Thanks for following my work. By the way, yeah, someone has just said this is a bit like the YouTube equivalent of it not being about winning, it being about taking part, and people getting medals for losing or coming last, and it not being about competition, it being just about happiness. Well, happiness often comes from competing at something hard and getting a good result. So let me know how you think this is indicative of society in general. Um, also, by the way, um, I don't know if you subscribe to my Rob's Resources. So once a week I send a newsletter called Rob's Resources, and there I give you my latest content on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, my blog. I write a piece of content each week on that email. There's no spam and no selling. It's once a week resources from me. If you'd like to grab that for free, go right now to robmoore.com/email. Mmm. Robmoore.com/mmm. And when you just pop your details in there, you'll immediately get access to, um, I think 16 billionaire interviews. 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