{"id":1338,"date":"2024-10-14T12:34:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:11:25","slug":"how-will-youtube-shorts-live-without-dislikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/how-will-youtube-shorts-live-without-dislikes","title":{"rendered":"How will YouTube Shorts Live without Dislikes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The YouTube team is testing the idea of removing the \u201cDislikes\u201d button from Shorts&#8217; feed. The general reasoning behind the idea is that this button will be replaced with a new one: the \u201cSave\u201d button. This way, it will be easier for users to come back to the videos they like at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea doesn&#8217;t actually sound that bad. Many users admit that they really need the \u201cSave\u201d button in Shorts. Without an instant option to save a clip, people lose it in the flood of other content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10307438.png?resize=640%2C272&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Shorts updates\" class=\"wp-image-1340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10307438.png?resize=1024%2C435&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10307438.png?resize=300%2C128&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10307438.png?resize=768%2C326&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10307438.png?resize=1536%2C653&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10307438.png?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10307438.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, the issue of disabling dislikes comes into play. How much does that limit a user&#8217;s freedom to express their opinion?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As YouTube&#8217;s representatives explain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cTo make it easier to bookmark Shorts that you love, want to return to, or want to watch later, we\u2019re experimenting with a \u201cSave\u201d button in the Shorts player. If you\u2019re a viewer in the test group, you\u2019ll see the \u2018Save\u2019 icon, which you can use to save Shorts to a new or existing playlist. To make room for the Save button, we moved our Shorts player menu around. In this experiment, the \u201cDislike\u201d button is now housed in the 3-dot menu icon. To dislike a Short and share feedback, click the 3-dot icon in the top right of the Short you\u2019re watching, then select \u2018Dislike\u2019 from the menu.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, the alternative of labeling content as \u201cnot interesting\u201d instead of a \u201cdislike\u201d button seems pretty good. We will keep watching the development of this news and social media in general. Meanwhile, read our news and articles in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/\" title=\"Blog\">Blog<\/a><\/strong> section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmediatoday.com\/news\/youtube-tests-removing-dislike-button-from-main-shorts-ui\/729571\/\" title=\"News Source\">News Source<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, we weren&#8217;t wrong: YouTube Shorts plans to remove dislikes. How will that happen? What&#8217;s going to be next? We&#8217;ll tell you about it in this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youtube-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10307439.png?fit=1600%2C680&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediacube.io\/en-US\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}