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ICYMI

The End of the Dislike Button

ICYMI

Slate Podcasts

Entertainment News, News, Tech News, Society & Culture

3.8678 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

YouTube recently announced that it’s doing away with publicly displaying the dislike count on videos. The buttons will still be there, but the numbers will be made private for creators. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison discuss why YouTube has decided to make this change, how dislikes are a tool for harassment, and why our brains have all been broken by the like economy. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John. Support ICYMI and listen to the show with zero ads. Sign up to become a Slate Plus member for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Autopilot Order.

0:01.7

Now, informal.

0:02.9

The strong urge felt at the ordering kiosk or drive-through

0:05.6

that takes over the entire body and mind

0:07.8

and results in a person ordering a Big Mac without even having to think.

0:11.5

Related phrases.

0:12.5

Looks like I've ordered a Big Mac again.

0:14.6

The Autopilot Order at McDonald's.

0:17.7

Serves from 11am subject to availability.

0:22.6

I've always thought seeing the number of dislikes on a video helps us know as viewers

0:27.2

if it's a good video or not, if it's a helpful tutorial or not.

0:33.2

Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.

0:34.9

And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. You're listening to I see YMIMI.

0:38.1

In case you missed it.

0:39.4

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

0:41.3

All right, Madison, I feel like I have to apologize to you for making you cry before like 5 p.m. today.

0:47.6

I simply was not in an emotionally stable enough state to watch this video of Adele being surprised with her childhood English teacher.

0:57.1

I mean, are any of us emotionally stable? It's getting dark at 4 p.m. now.

1:01.5

Absolutely not. Also, like, you already just inherently know that somewhere in my past is an English teacher who I think of as like the formative person in my childhood.

1:12.1

I'm going to, I just, I just the formative person in my childhood. I'm gonna just I just

1:21.7

I missed her hook. Thanks. I saw a tweet that was predicated off this video that said behind every bad bitch with anxiety is a high school English teacher that changed her life. And so this video that I sent Madison that made her cry is of Adele at an ITV event.

1:35.6

And the crowd, I believe, is entirely celebrities.

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