This list of most-disliked YouTube videos contains the top 50 videos with the most dislikes of all time, as derived from YouTube charts. The dislike count is taken directly from the page of the video itself. YouTube implemented a like and dislike button on video pages in 2010 as part of a major site redesign. This feature serves as a replacement for the previous five-starrating system, which was found to be ineffective because of the rare selection of ratings from two to four stars. Of the 50 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 dislike count does not indicate the true unpopularity of videos, which is better represented by dislike percentage, also provided in the table. For instance Despacito, Sorry, Baby Shark Dance, and Gangnam Style all appear on this list, but appear in the list of most-liked YouTube videos as well. As of May 2020, Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes has the most videos in the top 50 with twelve, while YouTube has three, and Justin Bieber and Jingle Toons have two each. On December 13, 2018, ' became the most disliked video on the video sharing platform, with 15 million dislikes rapidly surpassed the music video for Justin Bieber's song Baby, which entered the Guinness World Records book as the most disliked video on YouTube and on the Internet. As of July 16, 2020, YouTube Rewind 2018 has over 6.5 million more dislikes than Justin Bieber's Baby. 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. While music videos made up a majority of the most disliked uploads to YouTube, the trailer for the 2016 filmGhostbusters became the most disliked movie trailer on the site, with over one million dislikes. Some commentators saw this backlash as a concerted effort to vote the film down into obscurity. Along with the most disliked movie trailer, 2016 showed the most disliked video game trailer, ', 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 specifically asking his own viewers to dislike his video.
Top videos
The following table lists the top 50 most disliked videos on YouTube, with each total rounded to the nearest ten thousand dislikes, as well as the creator, dislike percentage and date of publication to YouTube.
Historical most-disliked videos
The following table lists the last 4 videos to become YouTube's most disliked video, from the implementation of the dislike button in March 2010 to the present. *The approximate number of dislikes each video had when it became YouTube's most-disliked video. Timeline of Most Disliked Videos ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:80 right:130 left:20 AlignBars = late DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:2010 till:10/05/2020 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:2010 Colors = id:Disliked value:rgb legend: Most disliked on YouTube id:On value:gray legend: On YouTube id:Removed value:rgb legend: Removed from YouTube Legend = columns:2 left:200 top:50 columnwidth:250 BarData = bar:Vote bar:Baby bar:Friday bar:YTRewind PlotData = width:5 align:left fontsize:9 shift: anchor:till bar:Vote from: 01/01/2010 till: 31/03/2010 color:On text: from: 31/03/2010 till: 21/08/2010 color:Disliked text: from: 21/08/2010 till: end color:On text: "Vote 1 Star" bar:Baby from: 19/02/2010 till: 21/09/2010 color:On text: from: 21/08/2010 till: 30/03/2011 color:Disliked text: from: 29/03/2011 till: 16/06/2011 color:On text: from: 16/06/2011 till: 12/12/2018 color:Disliked text: from: 13/12/2018 till: end color:On text: "Baby " bar:Friday from: 10/02/2011 till: 30/03/2011 color:On text: from: 29/03/2011 till: 16/06/2011 color:Disliked text: from: 16/06/2011 till: end color:Removed text: "Friday" bar:YTRewind from: 06/12/2018 till: 13/12/2018 color:On text: from: 13/12/2018 till: end color:Disliked text: ""
