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YouTube Dislike Viewer

Paste any YouTube video URL and instantly see the like-to-dislike ratio that YouTube hid in December 2021. Powered by Return YouTube Dislike data.

Try — 5.9 billion views, 4M dislikes, see the live ratio.

How to see dislikes on YouTube videos

Three steps, no signup, every YouTube link format.

  1. 1

    Paste a YouTube URL

    Watch links, Shorts, live streams, embed URLs, youtu.be share links — or just the 11-character video ID.

  2. 2

    Hit "See dislikes"

    We pull the latest like/dislike numbers from the Return YouTube Dislike archive — usually in under a second.

  3. 3

    Read the ratio bar

    Green = likes, red = dislikes, with exact percentages. Copy the numbers, share the link, or click into the leaderboard.

Why YouTube hid dislikes (and what we use instead)

On December 13, 2021, YouTube quietly removed the public dislike count from every video on the platform. Creators kept seeing it in YouTube Studio, but viewers no longer could.

YouTube’s official reasoning, published in a YouTube Creators blog post, was that visible dislike counts encouraged “dislike attacks” — coordinated downvoting that disproportionately hurt small creators. The data, they argued, was being weaponised more often than it was helping viewers.

Critics pushed back: the dislike count was one of the only fast public signals that a video was misleading, low-effort, or out of date. Tutorials especially relied on it — a 90% positive ratio meant the steps probably worked, a 60% ratio meant something had changed in the underlying software. Hiding the number didn’t make bad videos better; it made bad videos harder to spot.

The data still exists on YouTube’s side. Channel owners see exact dislike counts in YouTube Studio Analytics. The public just doesn’t. The Return YouTube Dislike project — which we use as our data source — restores public visibility by combining the pre-2021 archive with extrapolations from a browser-extension userbase.

How accurate is the dislike count?

Honest answer: it depends on the video. We label every result clearly so you can judge for yourself.

Pre-Dec-2021 videos: exact

For anything uploaded before the dislike-hide, the count is archived from when YouTube still made it public. As accurate as YouTube’s own number was.

Post-Dec-2021 videos: estimated

For newer videos, RYD extrapolates from users of its browser extension who voted. We mark these with an "Estimate" badge so you always know the difference.

Popular videos: ±10–20%

Videos with thousands of daily views give RYD a strong signal. Estimates here are typically within 10–20% of the true count.

Long-tail videos: less reliable

Videos with under ~50K views may have very few RYD-extension viewers, so the estimate is noisier. If the lookup returns no data, that’s why.

Sample bias is real

RYD-extension users skew slightly tech-savvy and English-speaking. We mention it because hiding it would be dishonest — but for the leaderboard tier of videos, the bias is small.

Honest by default

Every result clearly says whether it’s archived or estimated, and when it was last refreshed. No hand-waving.

All-time leaderboard

Most disliked YouTube videos of all time

A curated snapshot from the Return YouTube Dislike archive. Click any row to load the live ratio in the viewer above.

Numbers are best-known approximations from the RYD archive (most pre-date the Dec 2021 hide). For exact current counts, click a row to run a live lookup above.

Browser extensions to see dislikes inline

Want the dislike count back on every YouTube page automatically? Install the official Return YouTube Dislike browser extension. It’s the same data source this tool uses, just rendered into the YouTube UI as you browse.

Why we recommend RYD’s extension instead of building our own: it’s the canonical project that owns this distribution channel and powers the dataset we query. Anything we built would be a worse copy. This tool exists for the “quick check on a friend’s phone” case where installing an extension isn’t practical.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Not on the public video page. YouTube removed public dislike counts on December 13, 2021. Dislikes still exist — creators see them in YouTube Studio analytics, and the API briefly returned 0 before being removed entirely. This tool restores public visibility using estimates from the Return YouTube Dislike (RYD) project.
Data source

Like and dislike counts are provided by the Return YouTube Dislike project — an open-source effort that combines pre-2021 archived data with crowdsourced extension estimates. We’re not affiliated with RYD; we just think they’re doing the right thing and worth pointing to.

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