YouTube Rewind 2018 is the single most disliked video on YouTube, receiving over 20 million dislikes since its upload on December 6, 2018.[1]
This list of most-disliked YouTube videos contains the top 42 videos with the most dislikes of all time, as derived from the American video platform, YouTube's, charts.[2] The dislike count was taken directly from the page of the video itself. YouTube implemented a like and dislike button on video pages from 2010 as part of a major site redesign. The feature served as a replacement for the previous five-star rating system,[3] which was found to be ineffective because of the rare selection of ratings from two to four stars.[4] 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. For instance "Despacito", "Baby Shark Dance", and "Gangnam Style" all appear on this list, but also appear in the list of most-liked YouTube videos. As of December 2021[update], Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes has the most videos in the top 50 with thirteen, while YouTube and Jingle Toons have two.
YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind surpassed "Baby" to become the most-disliked YouTube video within a week of being uploaded.
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",[1] which previously entered the Guinness World Records book as the most disliked video on YouTube and on the Internet.[5] As of July 9, 2021, YouTube Rewind 2018 has over 7.1 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.[6] "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.[7]
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.[8] 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.[9] Recently, many videos from news channels and corporations have been dislike bombed when they talk about topics like the 2020 election or the COVID-19 pandemic.[citation needed]
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 "made for kids" video,[failed verification] with over 13.3 million dislikes. 2016 showed the most disliked video game trailer, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which stands at over three million dislikes.[10][11] It became YouTube's second-most-disliked video within two weeks of being released.[12] In 2016, PewDiePie achieved a video in the top 3 by explicitly asking his own viewers to dislike his video.[13]
In August 2020, the Indian film Sadak 2's trailer became the most disliked movie trailer on YouTube. In the first two days after its release, the trailer received 5.3 million dislikes and currently has over 12 million dislikes.[14] On August 18, at about 18:00 UTC, 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 changes in policy on January 6, 2020, to comply with COPPA.
On November 10, 2021, YouTube made dislike counts on videos private, purportedly to "reduce harassment associated with targeted dislike attacks."[15] The announcement and update was widely criticized by members of the YouTube community, including from creators and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim,[16][17][18][19] due to visible dislikes allowing users to immediately spot videos that are fraudulent, unhelpful, dangerous, explicit, discriminatory or generally poor-quality. However, there are some browser extensions which allow the user to view estimations of current dislikes on videos.[20][21][22][23]
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 date of publication to YouTube. On December 13, 2021, YouTube removed public dislike counts on all videos.[A] The amount of dislikes just before they were hidden is shown below, taken from the night of December 12, 2021.
Entries with a yellow background color indicate that the upload is not a music video.
Most disliked videos on YouTube from March 2010 – December 2021[24]
The following table lists the last 4 videos known to have become YouTube's most disliked video, from the implementation of the dislike button in March 2010 to December 2021.
Record as of December 13, 2021
Former record
Video has since been removed from YouTube
Title
Uploader
Dislikes*
Upload date
Date achieved
Days held
Ref(s)
Notes
"~YouTube Worst Video of All Time~ vote 1 star, leave comment"[76]
^Some videos may not be available worldwide due to YouTube regional restrictions in certain countries.
^An asterisk (*) indicates that the dislike count and ratio had been decreased slightly due to YouTube hiding the dislike count along with its associated API data publicly on December 13, 2021, which would make the public dislike count inaccurate.
^YouTube Rewind 2018 became the most disliked video on YouTube in 6 days and 10 hours, further being the first to break 10 million dislikes.
^"Baby Shark" became the fourth video to surpass 10 million dislikes on October 30, 2020. It is currently the most-viewed YouTube video with over 7 billion views as of November 2020. On April 8, 2021, it surpassed "Baby" to become the third most-disliked YouTube video. So far, it is only the fourth video to ever surpass "Baby" in dislikes, including the now-deleted original upload of "Friday," and the only video to do so while having a dislike ratio of less than 40%.
^"Sadak 2 Trailer" is the most-disliked movie trailer on YouTube within the first 24 hours of its upload, as well as the most-disliked Indian YouTube video as of August 2020. The video became the second most-disliked YouTube video within a week.[28][29][30]
^"Baby" was the most disliked video until "Friday" by Rebecca Black surpassed it in March 2011. "Friday" was deleted in June 2011, and "Baby" held the record for most disliked video until December 13, 2018, when it was passed by YouTube Rewind 2018. "Baby" became the first YouTube video to hit one million dislikes in late February 2011.[32] Baby also became the first video to hit five million dislikes in late August 2015. "Baby" also held the title for the most-viewed YouTube video from July 16, 2010, until November 24, 2012.
^On May 10, 2021, "Johny Johny Yes Papa" became the fifth YouTube video to surpass 10 million dislikes.
^Учим цвета Разноцветные яйца на ферме Развивающий мультик для детей is the most disliked YouTube video in a language other than English. The title means "Learn the colors- Colorful eggs on the farm". On January 24, 2021, it became the seventh video on YouTube to reach 7 million dislikes.
^When translated from Hindi into English, Lakdi ki kathi means "wooden saddle".
^This video reached 1 million and 2 million dislikes in the fastest time ever, doing so in 3.6 hours and 19 hours, respectively. It broke the previous records of 3 days and 11 days. This is also the most-disliked challenge video (challenging the viewer to dislike the video as much as possible)
^"Flores" is the most-disliked Portuguese YouTube video as of July 2020.
^"Despacito" is the most-liked and second most-viewed YouTube video with over 50 million likes and 8 billion views as of November 2022.
^This video is the most-disliked video game trailer on YouTube. The video generated public outrage upon its release. Within its first 7 days on YouTube, the video garnered over 1.12 million dislikes.[54] As of June 2021, it is the most-disliked age-restricted video on YouTube.
^This music video was uploaded by the German beauty YouTuber Bianca "Bibi" Heinicke. Fans and critics alike criticized the track for its shallow lyrics and poor vocal performance.[65][66] Heinicke received some backlash prior to the song's release when the pre-order price of 4,99€ was revealed.[67]
^"Gangnam Style" was the most-viewed video on YouTube from November 24, 2012, until July 10, 2017.
^"~YouTube Worst Video of All Time~ vote 1 star, leave comment" was YouTube's first video to hold the No. 1 spot on this list. When the video was uploaded in 2007, YouTube still used the 5-star rating system. On March 31, 2010, when the rating system changed to likes and dislikes, all previous 1 star ratings were converted to dislikes and all 5 star ratings were converted to likes. This automatically made "~YouTube Worst Video of All Time~ vote 1 star, leave comment" YouTube's most disliked video at the time.
^"Friday" surpassed over 3.2 million dislikes before it was deleted in June 2011.[7]
^"YouTube Rewind 2018" became the first video to hit 10 million dislikes, doing it within a week of its upload date.[84] It has since surpassed 16 million dislikes.
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