I understand they are trying to protect the sanity of the content creators, but they are doing so at the expense of the user experience.
I used to use the likes:dislikes ratio to determine if a video is worth watching. Now I either have to quickly scroll the comments or skip around the video to determine if the info is valid.
more like advertisers, brands, and corporations
If people do that, it means their recommendation algorithm's watch time and retention metrics get bad data; users aren't actually assessing how good the video is, but assessing previous viewers' assessment of it, so you get signal feedback.
If someone can get a good snowball effect going by brigading a bunch of dislikes on a video, they can reduce its reach even if the algorithm is showing it to people just as much. And it can snowball the other way too; people watching a long video a bit more hoping it will get good eventually because it has such a high ratio of likes.
Just speculating of course.
sure they are lmfao
by displaying dislike counter exclusively for those content creators, riiiight