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		Gigachad on Sept 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube Because corporate videos like movie trailers kept getting destroyed and it became a news event when there was a massive downvote count. They had a setting to disable votes per video but that just means the company admits the video is unpopular.

wiseowise on Sept 10, 2022 | [–]

Poor multibillion companies getting bullied, who can defend them?!

optimalsolver on Sept 10, 2022 | [–]

>movie trailers kept getting destroyed and it became a news event when there was a massive downvote count

Ah, so they did it to counter vote-brigading? Makes sense now.

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