'The Rotten Tomatoes of YouTube' (bgr.com) 37
In 2021, YouTube made the controversial decision to hide dislike counts on its platform, citing the aim of protecting creators from harassment. While this removed a valuable metric for viewers, alternatives have emerged, such as the browser extension Return YouTube Dislike and the new site Favoree. The latter is being hailed as "the Rotten Tomatoes of YouTube," where users can rate and review YouTube channels. BGR reports: Earlier this week, one user disappointed with the removal of YouTube's dislike counts took to Reddit to promote their new site Favoree. Rather than simply giving a channel a thumbs up or thumbs down, you can give it a rating out of five stars and even write a review. That way, you can actually see why people like or dislike a given channel.
This is a new site, so only a small handful of YouTube channels are currently represented (much less have many ratings or reviews) [...]. For example, Summoning Salt is a stellar channel a friend turned me on to a few years ago, which features long-form documentary-style videos about the history of speedrunning video games. The channel page on Favoree features a short description, a list of relevant keywords, embedded videos, and several written reviews.
Obviously, this is only going to work if Favoree really picks up steam and thousands of users start writing reviews and submitting new channels. That said, it's an interesting project, and the creator is accepting feedback on Reddit and acting on many of those suggestions rather quickly. It will be interesting to track Favoree to see how it develops.
This is a new site, so only a small handful of YouTube channels are currently represented (much less have many ratings or reviews) [...]. For example, Summoning Salt is a stellar channel a friend turned me on to a few years ago, which features long-form documentary-style videos about the history of speedrunning video games. The channel page on Favoree features a short description, a list of relevant keywords, embedded videos, and several written reviews.
Obviously, this is only going to work if Favoree really picks up steam and thousands of users start writing reviews and submitting new channels. That said, it's an interesting project, and the creator is accepting feedback on Reddit and acting on many of those suggestions rather quickly. It will be interesting to track Favoree to see how it develops.
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.... hide dislike counts on its platform, citing the aim of protecting creators from harassment.
How is it "harassment"? That makes no sense. Even if you get bombarded with a lot of dislikes .... so what? Seriously. What the fucking fuck. It's not like someone comes to your house and kicks you. If your feelings are hurt so badly by a dislike, then the problem is YOU, not YouTube.
Re:Monkey show. (Score:4, Insightful)
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Hmm yes tell us how you really feel
Re:Monkey show. (Score:5, Funny)
Oppressed.
Re: Monkey show. (Score:2)
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Now I can see the violence inherent in the system
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Re:Monkey show. (Score:4, Interesting)
It does make a kind of sense. We do live in an era where "review bombing" is a common thing.
The problem isn't always YOU. It can be people that have an agenda to push against you, or those that hear of a biased reaction and react themselves without actually viewing your content. What is hurt isn't always feelings; the livelihood of those making content can be affected.
Youtube's policy helps to mitigate the problem. Though it does also prevent genuine negative reactions, which is a shame. Perhaps there are smarter ways of handling it, but removing dislikes is simple, clean, and doesn't cost Youtube anything in terms of extra resources and policing. I'm sure that last bit helped in making the decision.
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Because review bombing is a thing. Note that the content creator CAN see the dislikes so they do get the feedback. It just isn't shown so that review bombers trying to cancel something don't get the satisfaction.
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That's been the modus operandi of YouTube for years now. Being an immature, egotistical, "Karen":
You're guilty and I won't tell you WHY so you can prevent it in the future because I can change the rules at any time!
Re: Monkey show. (Score:2)
Weird. I normally find comments get silently deleted. I noticed this after spotting a typo, then getting an error when attempting to save the edits.
It tends to occur when perfectly safe for work words are used, entirely ignoring context. It created a wonderful flow of euphemisms, such as 'fans of the Austrian painter' and 'swarthy persons'.
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Yeah it's a weird system. I've seen some posts just disappear and heard about silent bans where your post stays but you're the only one that can see it.
I think there may be some propagation issues across their multiple servers possibly too, as I swear I've seen posts pop up in the timeline that were not there before.
'This warning was an actual popup box.
Re: Monkey show. (Score:2)
Thanks. I'll watch out for that one.
"Reaction" videos (Score:1, Troll)
All should be immediately disliked. Demonetized, preferably. They're junk, worthless, and a complete fabrication of supposed "reactions".
It's unfortunate this site allows you to give 1 as the lowest possible score. Zero should always be an option.
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I'm convinced reaction videos are for people on the spectrum. I clicked on a video entitled "Opera singer critiques _______" thinking it might actually be interesting to hear her opinion. It was just her making faces into the camera while listening to the song. Maybe there was actual criticism later but I bailed out before that. That said there is plenty of good content on YouTube you just have to find it. I'm partial to urban exploration and people running old mainframes.
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Reaction videos are a way to piggyback on some little kid’s interest in a popular video. They see the video, they want more. There is no more, they watch people’s exaggerated fake reactions to relive whatever they got from the first video by proxy.
I admit I’ve enjoyed some videos along the lines of reaction videos where someone provides actual critique like: Black guy listens to RATM for first time or Kids play Oregon Trail on Apple][
But the vast majority of what gets put out are crap li
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If it's the one I'm thinking of, she does that at the beginning, then does a fairly in-depth critique of the singer's vocal technique and sometimes the music as well.
Oooohhh... Music (Score:2)
Great. I can now downrate all the channels with bad or too-loud music. Pretty much all of them...
Not sure Rotten Tomatoes is a good association (Score:5, Insightful)
Rotten Tomatoes went from censoring [archive.org] the audience score for The Little Mermaid to shilling it. [archive.org] where it magically has 95% over the course of 2 days.
I'm not sure associating with Rotten Tomatoes being fishing is a good marketing move.
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I don't think you understand how Rotten Tomatoes works. The first link is 127 critics and zero audience. The second link is 207 critics and 500+ verified user reviews. Of course the number is going to change!
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Almost forgot to add, is a black mermaid really that offense to people's fragile beliefs? Let me check my fictional creature skin color chart to make sure this film is historically accurate. As it turns out, the actor was chosen for her singing talents according to the director. https://www.huffpost.com/entry... [huffpost.com]
Re: Not sure Rotten Tomatoes is a good association (Score:3)
Riiight, it's not like the entire thing is a CGI horrorshow or that the plot was mutilated to pointlessness, the reason the unweighted user score is close to the unweighted critics score is the racisisms. Are we really supposed to believe that with a poorer(even more so when accounting for inflation) domestic opening weekend performance(both opened on memorial day weekend) than the Aladdin remake people like it better?
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According to Wikipedia, Aladdin make slightly less ($116.8m) than The Little Mermaid ($118.8) over the Memorial Day long weekend.
That places The Little Mermaid as the 5th highest Memorial Day weekend opening of all time, and the highest grossing Memorial Day release this year.
Where it did under-perform was outside the US. It's not something I was paying any attention to, but I haven't seen it advertised at all in the UK. No posters where previously movies like Shazam 2 were being advertised, for example. De
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You're right, I was referencing and earlier projection. Of course, ticket prices have gone up about 20% since 2019.
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You mean how the site that blocked user reviews until after [rottentomatoes.com] the movie was released with the excuse of review bombing?
But yet they allow critic scores before the film is out?
Riiight, I don't understand how Rotten Tomatoes works. /s
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Rotten Tomatoes is owned by Fandango, who's CEO is a former 16 year Disney exec. It's funny how many of the questionable RT audience scores happen with Disney movies. The Rise of Skywalker audience score never moved from it's 86% (from memory) score and there's zero way that movie got that score.
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Also, its login redesign sucks! I could never log in again because my e-mail came way too late to use to log in! Stupid design.
Automated channel content = bad (Score:2)
Scammers love the removal of the dislike button (Score:2)
Re: Scammers love the removal of the dislike butto (Score:2)
Bingo. If they actually want the like/dislike button to be of utility to the viewer, both numbers need to be visible to the viewer. If they just want the like/dislike button to be a useful metric to the creator, neither number need be visible to the viewer. The only reason to have one without the other visible to the viewer it to bias the viewers opinion in a single direction.
'For you' is gone, that's the imprtant thing (Score:2)
The rest is just ego-stroking for content-providers.
real reason (Score:2)
I suspect the real reason they removed the dislike is so that they could hide how much people dislike the things that YouTube itself likes and promotes. Examples would be posts from legacy media or favored politicians, such as the White House. Otherwise people would be asking, why are you recommending stuff that has a 10-1 dislike ratio?