People aren't buying it and overwhelmingly seem to recognize what shitty hypocritical utterly bullshit behaviour youtube engages in.
Like literally describes while receiving the award how censorship and pandering to corporate advertisers is free speech.
Also, typically, most of the time, the thousands of people directly negatively affected by the reason for the award aren't able to publicly display their disgust.
Also, somewhat interestingly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-disliked_YouTube_...
I've never seen that list before...apparently people really hate cocomelon nursery rhymes...it shows up 11 times in that list.
There's a really plausible explanation for huge dislike ratios on videos for children:
Very young children don't understand the UI, they just randomly mash buttons.
So a 50/50 like/dislike ratio would represent that randomness.