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This list of most-disliked YouTube videos contains the top 42 videos with the most dislikes as of December 12, 2021, as derived from the American video platform, YouTube's, charts. The dislike count was taken directly from the page of the video itself. YouTube implemented like and dislike buttons on video pages as part of a major site redesign in 2010. The feature served as a replacement for the previous five-star rating system, which was found to be ineffective because of the rare selection of ratings from two to four stars. Of the 42 videos in this list, 6 also appear in the list of most-viewed YouTube videos and 4 appear in the list of most-liked YouTube videos. Note that the dislike count does not indicate the true unpopularity of a video, which is better represented by dislike percentage, also provided in the table below. For instance, "Despacito", "Baby Shark Dance" and "Gangnam Style" appear on this list, but also on the most-liked YouTube videos list. , Cocomelon has the most videos in the top 50 with thirteen, while YouTube and Jingle Toons have two.
On December 13, 2018, YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind became the most disliked video on the video-sharing platform, with 15 million dislikes, rapidly surpassing the music video for Justin Bieber's song "Baby", which had previously entered the Guinness World Records book as the most disliked video on YouTube and on the Internet. YouTube Rewind 2018 had over 7.1 million more dislikes than Justin Bieber's Baby on July 9, 2021.
In March 2011, "Baby", which then had 1.17 million dislikes, was surpassed by the video for Rebecca Black's "Friday", yielding more than 1.2 million dislikes. "Friday" amassed over three million dislikes before the video was taken down in June 2011. The video was reinstated three months later and has not been taken down since.
Measurement of dislikes on YouTube has been of academic and political interest. Following its immediate negative reception, Rick Perry's 2012 presidential campaign advertisement "Strong" garnered over 600,000 dislikes within five days. This phenomenon was seen by Mike Barthel of The Village Voice as a reason not to judge entertainment and politics by the same standard of online publicity; he opined that the only time people are going to care more about politics than entertainment is when there is a clear and immediate threat to their well-being.
Music videos, including children's music videos, made up a majority of the most disliked uploads to YouTube. "Baby Shark Dance" is the most-disliked children's music video, with over 14.39 million dislikes as of October 2021. 2016 showed the most-disliked videogame trailer, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which stands at over three million dislikes. It became YouTube's second-most disliked video within two weeks of being released. In 2016, PewDiePie achieved a video in the top 3 by explicitly asking his own viewers to dislike his video.
Uploaded on the 12th of August, 2020, the trailer for Sadak 2 became the most disliked movie trailer on YouTube within the first two days after its release: on the 13th, it had already obtained 5.3 million dislikes. On the 18th, 6 days after its release, it surpassed Justin Bieber's "Baby" to become the second-most disliked video, with 13.24 million dislikes. As of October 2021, more than half of the top 50 most-disliked videos are music videos for children, with 31 of these 50 videos (62%) being set as "made for kids" according to YouTube's COPPA-compliant changes it made to its policy on January 6, 2020.
On November 10, 2021, YouTube made video dislike counts private to the creator, purportedly to "reduce harassment associated with targeted dislike attacks". The update was widely criticized by the YouTube community, including by many YouTubers and by co-founder and first uploader, Jawed Karim. One common point of criticism was that publicly visible dislikes enabled users to immediately spot and avoid videos that are fraudulent, unhelpful, dangerous, explicit, discriminatory, or generally low-quality, and now they can no longer count on that. However, there are some browser extensions (such as "Return YouTube Dislike" and "ImprovedTube") which allow the user to view estimated dislikes on videos. In the month following the change, on December 13, YouTube removed the actual dislike data from its API, making it fully inaccessible at last – both to users and to developers.
Top videos
The following table lists the top 42 most disliked videos on YouTube, with the final visible dislike counts being rounded to the nearest thousand, as well as the creator, dislike percentage and upload date. As stated above, on December 13, 2021, YouTube fully removed public dislike data from all videos; thus the number of dislikes shown below is data from the eve of the removal, the 12th, just before they were hidden.
+Most disliked videos on YouTube from March 2010 to December 2021 Rank Title Uploader Dislike count (millions) Dislike percentage Upload date Category Note Country of origin 1 YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind YouTube 20.358 December 6, 2018 YouTube Rewind 2 Baby Shark Dance Pinkfong Kids' Songs & Stories 14.972 June 17, 2016 Music video for children 3 Sadak 2 | Official TrailerStar Studios 13.667 August 12, 2020 Movie trailer 4 BabyJustin Bieber (featuring Ludacris) 12.476 February 19, 2010 Music video 5 Johny Johny Yes Papa LooLoo Kids 11.954 October 8, 2016 Music video for children 6 YouTube Rewind 2019: For the RecordYouTube 9.587 December 5, 2019 YouTube Rewind 7 Bath Song Cocomelon 8.941 May 2, 2018 Music video for children 8 Learning Colors – Colorful Eggs on a Farm Мирошка ТВ (Myroshka TV)8.436 February 27, 2018 Educational video for children 9 Lakdi ki kathiJingle Toons 7.244 June 14, 2018 Music video for children 10 Wheels on the Bus Cocomelon 6.900 May 24, 2018 Music video for children 11 Humpty the train on a fruits ride Kiddiestv Hindi 6.194 January 26, 2018 Educational video for children 12 Old MacDonald Had a Farm – Kids nursery rhymes Bounce Patrol – Kids Songs 6.153 November 12, 2013 Music video for children 13 Keysha Play Filling Water in Balloons Daddy Finger Nursery Rhymes | Learn Colors With Balloons Zuni and Family 5.773 April 21, 2019 Educational video for children 14 Can this video get 1 million dislikes? PewDiePie 5.720 December 24, 2016 Comedy 15 Flores Vitão and Luísa Sonza 5.534 June 11, 2020 Music video 16 Baa Baa Black Sheep Cocomelon 5.528 June 25, 2018 Music video for children 17 It's Everyday Bro Jake Paul featuring Team 10 5.462 May 30, 2017 Music video 18 Chal Chal Gurram Infobells Telugu 5.425 November 18, 2016 Music video for children 19 Despacito Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee 5.216 January 12, 2017 Music video 20 Dame Tu Cosita El Chombo featuring Cutty Ranks 5.173 April 5, 2018 Music video 21 Shake, shake your body! Clap, Clap, Cha Cha Cha! D Billions 4.485 January 12, 2020 Music video for children 22 Wheels on the Bus Mother Goose Club Playhouse 4.442 August 18, 2011 Music video for children 23 "Masha and the Bear: Recipe for Disaster" Get Movies 4.273 January 31, 2012 Children's television series 24 FridayRebecca Black 4.078 September 16, 2011 Music video 25 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Reveal Trailer Call of Duty 3.965 May 2, 2016 Video game trailer 26 Yes Yes Vegetables Song Cocomelon 3.946 August 10, 2018 Music video for children 27 Exploring Shillong | Shoot Diaries | Mr. Faisu Faisal Shaikh 3.9 May 14, 2020 Vlog 28 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Cocomelon 3.728 December 6, 2017 Music video for children 29 toycantando 3.629 April 12, 2016 Music video for children 30 This Is The Way Super Simple Songs 3.570 June 8, 2016 Music video for children 31Bath Song + More Nursery Rhymes & Kids SongsCocomelon 3.351 June 4, 2018 Music video for children 32 Baby SharkCocomelon 3.343 November 21, 2017 Music video for children 33 Yes Yes Vegetables Song + More Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs – CoComelonCocomelon 3.340 September 7, 2018 Music video for children 34 How It Is (Wap Bap …)BibisBeautyPalace 3.314 May 5, 2017 Music video 35 Yummy Fruits & Vegetables | D Billions Kids SongsD Billions 3.099 September 16, 2020 Music video for children 36 Nani Teri Morni Ko Mor Le Gaye Jingle Toons 3.088 March 11, 2016 Music video for children 37 Beach Song + More Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs Cocomelon 3.070 August 2, 2019 Music video for children 38 Wheels on the Bus + More Nursery Rhymes & Kids SongsCocomelon 3.030 June 28, 2018 Music video for children 39 Gangnam Style Psy 2.899 July 15, 2012 Music video 40 Upa Cavalinho Galinha Pintadinha 2.871 July 7, 2017 Music video for children 41 No No Bedtime Song Cocomelon 2.775 July 12, 2017 Music video for children 42 Yes Yes Playground SongCocomelon 2.564 October 23, 2018 Music video for children
Historical most-disliked videos The following table lists the last 4 videos known to have each historically become YouTube's most disliked video, from the implementation of the like–dislike system in March 2010 to the moment when the dislikes count was hidden from the public in December 2021. Of the 4 videos listed, the music video for Justin Bieber's Baby is the only one to have been the most disliked video twice – in August 21, 2010, and again in June 16 of the following year – and also the one that stayed at that top rank for the longest time (almost 90 months).
Title Uploader Dislikes Upload date Date achieved Days held Reference(s) Note ~YouTube Worst Video of All Time~ vote 1 star, leave comment donotasyoudo ~195,000 ~143 Baby Justin Bieber ~200,000 ~ ~220 Friday trizzy66 1,200,000 79 Baby Justin Bieber 1,450,000 2,737 YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls RewindYouTube 9,882,000 1,096 As of December 13, 2021
Timeline
See also
List of most-liked YouTube videos List of most-viewed YouTube videos List of most-subscribed YouTube channels
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