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Woah, I was wondering why I'm not seeing new videos from him.

Turn's out, he even made a video about it and I simply missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVCpKfedfok

⬐ strunz

Seems like he's coming back and outsourcing the editing - https://twitter.com/WilliamOsman/status/1486815129563918338

This seems like an odd thing to target. I haven't found dislikes to be problematic in the context of YouTube videos: in fact they're usually an indicator of something in the content itself (I've only ever seen high dislikes either on videos that were themselves problematic or harmful, or on unpopular corporate announcements).

For "creators" on YouTube the real problems seem to come from the contents of comments.

This[0] recent video rant has some interesting insights toward the end of the video where other popular YouTubers are interviewed on how negative comments impacted them. What I found thought provoking was how much of a negative impact some particular types of comments that seemed in good intent-e.g. commenters stating their preference for a previous video format "I preferred when you ___". Feels like Google/social media sites could do something around sentiment heuristics; I know Twitter has started some stuff like this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVCpKfedfok

⬐ andrewfromx

Some sort of youtube celebrity I had never heard of before giving his take on why he's quitting. Makes a lot of sense. Seems like the issue is no matter how good and honest you are, people will assume bad stuff and make you feel bad 24/7 if you keep posting stuff on youtube and it has a large audience.

⬐ themodelplumber

> When the house burned down, people figured out a way to be judgemental about it.

This is just insanity. IMO in the future this kind of thing will be one of those "I can't believe we lived through this level of abusing each other" topics.

I really hope that a variety of new audience interaction models are going to be part of online-community-next-point-oh. They are the future of not being associated with exposing your platform's creator community to negative mental health outcomes, which ought to be enough incentive by itself. This video is a great example.

People get online while carrying pure emotion out of who knows where, and the current context into which they arrive ends up either being an emotional spigot opportunity, a moderated emotional spigot opportunity, or no opportunity (comments disabled for example).

There is tremendous room here for growth and only escalating downsides if these issues are neglected. Kudos to the creator here for being open about it.