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[shinobi602]

So, I have a 2 year old, and sometimes we let him watch some cartoons, or learn a bit with ABCs, Sesame Street, etc. I've noticed something in the last year plus, almost every video, and I mean almost every video has a shit ton of dislikes. It's something that's never particularly *bothered* me, but always perplexed me. Am I missing something here lol!? Help me understand this mystery GAF.



Just a few quick random examples I pulled. Look at any video of songs for kids, ABCs, Sesame Street, cartoons, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, anything lol.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Kids whose parents make them watch educational videos instead of PewDiePie or whatever

 

[Broken Joystick]

I honestly have no idea, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a 4Chan thing at some point.

Maybe kids are just assholes at a younger age?

 

[NoblesseOblige]

Does that wheels on the bus video have 1 billion views?

 

[TheSpoiler]

Big Bird fans throwing shade.

 

[sgjackson]

this is weird enough that i googled it and there's a reddit thread about it from six months ago

apparently this comes up a decent amount and the best theory is that parents stick tablets in front of their younger children and they just mash at the screen - a lot of the comments on these videos are total gibberish for similar reasons. they also pointed out that children's videos that came out early in youtube's life and thus wouldn't have been viewed as much on tablets have less of this effect.

nothing concrete but it sounds sensible to me.

 

[John Kowalski]

children are the toughest critics

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Does that wheels on the bus video have 1 billion views?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP-MbfHFUqs

 

[Crossing Eden]

I'd wager edgy teenagers.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

I remember something about how you can end up on these videos when you're searching or something else?...or was that a different thing.

 

[Tenebrous]

More than 500,000 disappointed paedophiles who came just for the channel name, I guess.

 

[Stabby McSter]

Kids whose parents make them watch educational videos instead of PewDiePie or whatever

I was watching my nephew watch cat videos on YouTube. He was laughing like in a way I've never heard him laugh before. It was disgusting and scary.

 

[Pizoxuat]

Just kids being kids. My kid figured out how to leave comments when she was 6 and started downvoting and adding comments pointing out errors in educational videos. She still watches them, she's just annoyed when they get things factually wrong.

 

[SYNTAX182]

this is weird enough that i googled it and there's a reddit thread about it from six months ago

apparently this comes up a decent amount and the best theory is that parents stick tablets in front of their younger children and they just mash at the screen - a lot of the comments on these videos are total gibberish for similar reasons. they also pointed out that children's videos that came out early in youtube's life and thus wouldn't have been viewed as much on tablets have less of this effect.

nothing concrete but it sounds sensible to me.

Yep, I think this makes most sense. Just you kids swiping everywhere on the screen and accidentally hitting the dislike button.

 

[The Abominable Snowman]

Or older people who watch the video and are all "THIS ISN'T HOW IT LOOKED WHEN I WAS 5, 30 YEARS AGO" and dislike it on the principle that change and difference is bad

 

[tim.mbp]

Sesame Street is moving to HBO, maybe there was some angry dislike campaign?

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Just kids being kids. My kid figured out how to leave comments when she was 6 and started downvoting and adding comments pointing out errors in educational videos. She still watches them, she's just annoyed when they get things factually wrong.

stealth brag

 

[shinobi602]

Just kids being kids. My kid figured out how to leave comments when she was 6 and started downvoting and adding comments pointing out errors in educational videos. She still watches them, she's just annoyed when they get things factually wrong.

But a lot of these videos are more for something like 2-3 year olds (nursery rhymes, ABCs, etc). I guess the theory that it's just young toddlers randomly swiping at the screen could make sense!

 

[Abounder]

 

[Pepto]

You hit the dislike button if you don't want your recommended videos to be full of children's songs.

 

[gutterboy44]

Never underestimate the religious downvote. My born again Christian aunt can find the devil in anything. Still to this day, I am dumb founded by the things she finds "satanic" or anti christian in popular movies, tv, music, etc.

The child button mashing makes a lot of sense too.

 

[TedHub]

It's the middle school mentality. Like all the songs about murdering Barney that everyone on the playground would sing.

 

[Archaix]

If not kids hitting touchscreens, maybe it's just the parents sick of listening to this bullshit over and over again and wanting to do the smallest thing about it.

 

[The Janitor]

lol

 

[Orbis Tabula]

Does that wheels on the bus video have 1 billion views?

The wheels on the bus go Gangnam Style.

 

[marrec]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP-MbfHFUqs

LittleBabyBum GETTING FAT STACKS

 

[adj_noun]

Holy crap I need to start writing kid songs.

Um

THERE ONCE WAS A GRAPE FROM KALAMAZOO

IT SAID HELLO AND HOW DO YA DO

THEN IT GOT CRUSHED AND ITS BLOOD DID RUN

AND THAT'S WHERE MOM'S WINE COOOOOMES FROOOOOOM

 

[AndyD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP-MbfHFUqs

My two year olds love that video. They have probably accounted for hundreds of those views because they keep clicking on it to watch the same 2-3 minute segments only.

And a billion views from kids across the world over the past few years does not seem that much.

That said, there's apparently some algorithm gaming too, as apparently all things being equal videos with few recent negatives get ranked higher, so a small campaign of negatives against your competitors can boost your own videos' ranking. I read something about it, but I don't really get how it works or whatnot.

 

[Sky Saw]

Who cares?

NO RLY

 

[Jawmuncher]

People wanna watch the real shit, like the duck song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q

 

[Sun Bather]

Maybe the videos are bad.

 

[spindashing]

LittleBabyBum GETTING FAT STACKS

IT'S LIT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

 

[Orbis Tabula]

People wanna watch the real shit, like the duck song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q

Now this is my shit

 

[SlimySnake]

Does that wheels on the bus video have 1 billion views?

If it wasnt for that video, i would've had to spend the 500 hours i spent on Destiny with my son.

 

[Razorback]

It's probably gamergators upset at the rumors of big bird being transgender.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Everyone has different taste. I could walk up to someone and say, "Have a nice day" and they'd probably flip me the bird or something. Everyone is going to think what you like is absolutely garbage.

One man's trash is another man's treasure is true. One person loves one thing and the other thinks it's royal trash. It's a part of life that's well known. You just have to make sure you know how to deal with it or simply ignore it.

I can bet there's people arguing about Disney films too. I don't necessarily watch any of them anymore. I did it for the sheer amazement of their design, the architecture from the artist at that period in time, but they aren't something I spend my time and money on.

Some people think it all sucks and they want modern stuff with the works attached to it. I don't bother believing that way because I like a lot of things and that whole bipolar curve sorta sucks the life out of things if you ask me.

Have you ever heard, "80's music sucks?". I find that comment to be irritating. I can relax with 80's music, but I don't listen to it all the time. I don't say comments like that either. I could argue things left and right.

Comment sections on gaming sites are just as bad. You have a diverse habitat and you can get lost in loving or hating it.

 

[Kinyou]

Maybe kids are really critical

 

[FinalStageBoss]

It's probably the parents, I've hit the dislike on some of those when my niece is over and watches the same video a thousand times.

 

[StoneFox]

You hit the dislike button if you don't want your recommended videos to be full of children's songs.

This is the most likely reason to me, at least for older viewers. The dislike button is useful for getting rid of stuff you don't want to see just because you happened to view a video vaguely similar.

 

[thebeeks]

I always assumed it was probaby older kids/siblings hating on "baby stuff".

It's no different than the kids at school that would make fun of the younger grades for liking Barney and that sort of thing.

 

[Viper3]

I noticed that too. Every time my son finds a cartoon that he likes on youtube the percentage of dislikes is at least 30% or so.

At first I though that people might not be happy with the quality of the vids or something (a lot of kids stuff on youtube is copyright infringement and the quality is pretty terrible) but it seems like even the best kids shows have a ton of dislikes.

It's just weird.

 

[Tabris]

Most likely what's happening is those videos are showing up on trending or top hit sections for viewers and they are disliking the fact youtube is recommending them it.

 

[SenorArdilla]

♪JOHNNY JOHNNY♪
♪YES PAPA♪
♪EATING SUGAR♪
♪NO PAPA♪
♪TELLING LIES♪
♪NO PAPA♪
♪OPEN YOUR MOUTH♪
♪HA HA HA♪

Children's songs are a goldmine.

 

[D4Danger]

more interested to know what the comments look like

 

[Skellig Gra]

Does that wheels on the bus video have 1 billion views?

Yo, haha let's make some Google ad money

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Some dude in the bus video said he made a comment a month ago and after that he was getting gibberish replies from accounts that had 30-40 year old looking woman profile pictures. Gotta be the little rugrats.

 

[riotous]

Those don't seem that high compared to the number of views.

Adelle's "Hello" for instance has a similar view/dislike ratio to wheels on the bus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A

And she's pretty well liked.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

Reminds me of a friend of mine who works in radio as a sound engineer techie whatever. Right out of college, he worked at an AM station that was all hard nosed business reports early in the morning... farm stock reports, etc. Then one week, they changed formats overnight to Disney Radio. At 6 in the morning, he was getting flooded with calls from angry listeners tuning in expecting the Stocker Feeder Cattle Market Reports and instead hearing a Disney show called Wakey Wakey, Eggs and Bakey playing Hannah Montana and Disney movie songs.

According to him every call was the same. They'd say "you've just lost a listener, buddy!" And he'd have to reply: "Yeah, NO SHIT. We didn't expect to keep you."

 

[Chariot]

Incidentally MLP videos of songs and intros are rated very well. Even if you're arguing that the adult Brony fanbase is of course pulling it into the positive area, this has only 8k dislikes on 32,000,000 views with 72,5k likes. Compared to the 20k dislikes of the 48,500,000 view Mickey and Pluto thing.

But I also have no idea where the hate for those kids stuff in the OP is coming from.

Those don't seem that high compared to the number of views.

Adelle's "Hello" for instance has a similar view/dislike ratio to wheels on the bus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A

And she's pretty well liked.

You may wanna look again.

Wheels on Bus= 700,000 vs 500,000
Hello= 6,300,000 vs 207,000

Not even close to being similiar.

 

[riotous]

Wheels on Bus= 700,000 vs 500,000
Hello= 6,300,000 vs 207,000

Not even close to being similiar.

I said Views/Dislike not Like/Dislike.