This Wednesday, YouTube announced new changes to its functionality. From now on, the social network will hide dislikes on all videos on the platform. The purpose of this change is to combat the harassment and cyberbullying that content creators receive, so that users will not be able to mock or harass YouTubers. The initial reason for creating this \"dislike\" button was to allow viewers to give feedback to others about the quality of the content, video recording quality, accuracy of the information provided, among other things. The social network conducted research which revealed that there were times when dislikes had a higher count than views of the same video. This raises questions about whether it is really necessary. Of course, the platform has already conducted real-world tests hiding the button and did not create drastic changes. “A few months ago, YouTube conducted some experiments and hid the public dislike count to see if it could help reduce organized attacks on the platform aimed at increasing the number of dislikes on certain videos. After analyzing the results in July of this year, we did detect a reduction in these attacks. Therefore, we are now going to hide the dislike count on YouTube (although we are not removing the button). Users can still use the dislike button, and we will use that action to adjust their personalized recommendations. However, users will not be able to see the dislike count, as it will only be visible to creators in YouTube Studio,” YouTube Creators officially announced. While the new policy goes into effect today, it may take a few weeks to be rolled out across the entire platform to begin eradicating cyberbullying.