Thumbs down on you tube?

I just stop it and move on to the next one if I don't like it. I wouldn't give a thumbs down.
There are so many videos that I pass up because I just don't get it (I feel old just saying that, LOL), like unboxing ones, but even though I find them beyond annoying I still wouldn't give a thumbs down.

Honestly, I cant be bothered doing to do a thumbs down. If I dont like something, I just move on.

I usually don't remember to give a thumbs up or down! I'm not much of a commenter either.

I give a thumbs up to most videos I watch. I have only given one thumbs down on YT - it was for a how to style your hair at home tutorial and the youtuber had her stylist in her home doing her hair.

Whenever I've given a video a thumbs down, it's for the same reasons.

I've given a thumbs down if the information is incorrect or directions are confusing/wrong. Most of the time, it's for beading videos. I do leave a comment if I give a thumbs down. I leave a comment if I really like something too. Otherwise I just give a thumbs up.

I guess that’s her solution to doing it at home? Lol

I’ve given a couple of thumbs downs but not often. The two I can remember:

A technique video that not only did the person not start making a card for over five minutes but the five minute chatter leading up to it wasn’t even related. I want to say it was a ten minute video. I read the comments which agreed with me and said where to skip forward to. Since multiple people had already said the same thing I didn’t bother leaving a comment. Sad thing was it was a useful technique and she did a great job demonstrating but I wouldn’t watch her again.

Second was on a vlog channel I watch frequently. She was sent an extra very expensive limited edition Disney doll. She wasn’t going to contact them and let them know because “they’re big enough they won’t care” but was going to auction it off instead. That was so unethical to me. Apparently it was to multiple other people, too, because in the next vlog she said she called them and told her to keep it. I don’t believe a second she actually called but was just covering her ass.

That's hilarious! omg. face palm. 

I think the only time I might've given a thumbs down was when I was looking for a video about something obscure and specific (I think it was tarantulas migrating across roads in NM) and I watched a video by a couple of teens that was labeled as being about that... but turned out to be them chattering to the camera for 10+ minutes going down a road. When I skipped through it all and got to the end realizing it had nothing to do with the title at all I was pretty annoyed. I still don't know why they had titled it that way, how they even came up with that... given that there are something like 2 videos on YT on that topic, it's not exactly clickbait! 

But generally I just click away. Especially if the YTer was trying to do a good job, which I believe most I watch are.

I only starting watching the occasional YT video (ETA: exclusively scrapbook-related) when bored during the pandemic & never give a thumbs up or down. If the content is not what I expected for whatever reason, I simply close the video. 

I don’t think I’ve ever thumbs downed anything on YouTube. I can’t remember doing it at least.

Since YouTube considers it all engagement, I usually don’t bother. I am generous with my thumbs up though.

I don’t even look at that metric anymore for my own channel.

Echoing others that if I don't like it, I'll move on. Only do thumbs up. If it's something political or racist/red pill-y I won't even watch.

Thumbs up/down tells YT algorithm what you want to watch. If you are getting suggested videos you are not interested in, thumbs down tells the algorithm stop showing me these types. People are too damn sensitive about this.