But YouTube believes the change will better protect its creators from harassment and reduce the threat of what it calls “dislike attacks” — essentially, when a group teams up to drive up the number of dislikes a video receives.

The company says that while dislike counts won’t be visible to the public, it’s not removing the dislike button itself. Users can still click the thumbs down button on videos to signal their dislike to creators privately. Meanwhile, creators will be able to track their dislikes in YouTube Studio alongside other analytics about their video’s performance, if they choose.

So they think showing dislikes somehow hurts the creator of the video.

But they're still allowing users to dislike videos?

And they're still showing the true dislike count to creators?

And users who participate in these "dislike attacks" will know this?

Youtube is being run by chimps. Literal knuckle dragging chimps.