YouTube Creator Slams Company’s Removal Of ‘Dislike’ Button As “Stupid Move”

The co-founder of YouTube has labelled the company’s decision to remove the ‘dislike’ button as a “Stupid move.”

Jawed Karim, who sold his stake in YouTube for $65 million in 2006, was the first person to ever upload a video to YouTube and he used that video to comment on the scrapping of the ‘thumb down’ button.

In the description section of the video, which shows the engineer visiting San Diego zoo 16 years ago, Karim edited in the comment “When every YouTuber agrees that removing dislikes is a stupid idea, it probably is. Try again, YouTube.”