Top 20 Most-Disliked YouTube Videos of All Time

YouTube is undoubtedly one of the most popular and widely used platforms for watching and sharing videos. 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, which was found to be ineffective because of the rare selection of ratings from two to four stars.

With billions of users, it’s no surprise that some videos become viral hits, while others fall short of expectations. However, there are some videos that have become infamous for being disliked by a vast number of people. These videos have managed to attract a significant number of dislikes, making them some of the most disliked videos on the platform.

In this article, we will take a closer look at the top 20 most-disliked YouTube videos of all time. We will examine the reasons behind their unpopularity and explore what makes them so disliked. From music videos to online trends, these videos have all managed to gain significant attention, but for all the wrong reasons. So, if you’re curious to know which videos are the most disliked on YouTube, read on to find out more.

On November 10, 2021, YouTube made dislike counts private to reduce harassment associated with targeted dislike attacks, but this was criticized by creators and YouTube creators and co-founder Jawed Karim due to visible dislikes allowing users to spot fraudulent, unhelpful, dangerous, explicit, discriminatory or poor-quality videos. However, there are some browser extensions that enable the user to be able to view estimations of current dislikes on videos.

Note that the dislike count does not indicate the true unpopularity of a video, which is better represented by the dislike percentage. For instance “Despacito” and “Baby Shark Dance” all appear on this list but also appear in the list of most-liked YouTube videos.

List of most-disliked YouTube videos

Rank	Video name	Uploader / artist	Dislike count (millions)	Dislikes (%)	Upload date	Type of video
1	“YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind”	YouTube	20.358	86.63%	December 6, 2018	YouTube Rewind
2	“Baby Shark Dance”	Pinkfong Kids’ Songs & Stories	14.972	31.7%	June 17, 2016	Music video for children
3	“Sadak 2 Trailer”	Star Studios	13.667	94.86%	August 12, 2020	Movie trailer
4	“Baby”	Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris	12.476	38.26%	February 19, 2010	Music video
5	“Johny Johny Yes Papa”	LooLoo Kids	11.954	40.76% *	October 8, 2016	Music video for children
6	“YouTube Rewind 2019: For the Record”	YouTube	9.587	73.3%	December 5, 2019	YouTube Rewind
7	“Bath Song”	Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes	8.941	41.87%	May 2, 2018	Music video for children
8	“Learning Colors – Colorful Eggs on a Farm”	Мирошка ТВ	8.436	39.78%	February 27, 2018	Educational video for children
9	“Lakdi ki kathi”	Jingle Toons	7.244	42.75%	June 14, 2018	Music video for children
10	“Wheels on the Bus”	Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes	6.900	40.7%	May 24, 2018	Music video for children
11	“Humpty the train on a fruits ride”	Kiddiestv Hindi	6.194	43.01%	January 26, 2018	Educational video for children
12	“Old MacDonald Had a Farm – Kids nursery rhymes”	Bounce Patrol – Kids Songs	6.153	43.33%	November 12, 2013	Music video for children
13	“Keysha Play Filling Water in Balloons Daddy Finger Nursery Rhymes	Zuni and Family	5.773	41.32%	April 21, 2019	Educational video for children
14	“Can this video get 1 million dislikes?”	PewDiePie	5.720	93.72%	December 24, 2016	Comedy
15	“Flores”	Vitão and Luísa Sonza	5.534	69.15%	June 11, 2020	Music video
16	“Baa Baa Black Sheep”	Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes	5.528	43.12%	June 25, 2018	Music video for children
17	“It’s Everyday Bro”	Jake Paul featuring Team 10	5.462	63.56%	May 30, 2017	Music video
18	“Chal Chal Gurram”	Infobells Telugu	5.425	44.19%	November 18, 2016	Music video for children
19	“Despacito”	Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee	5.216	9.97%	January 12, 2017	Music video
20	“Dame Tu Cosita”	El Chombo featuring Cutty Ranks	5.173	25.64%	April 5, 2018	Music video

Interesting Facts About YouTube Most-Disliked Videos:

• Music videos, including children’s music videos, made up a majority of the most disliked uploads to YouTube.
• On December 13, 2018, YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind became the most disliked video on the video-sharing platform with 20.35 million dislikes, rapidly surpassing the music video for Justin Bieber’s song “Baby”, which previously entered the Guinness World Records book as the most disliked video on YouTube and on the Internet.
• 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.
• 2016 showed the most disliked video game trailer, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which stands at over three million dislikes.
• In 2016, PewDiePie achieved a video in the top 3 by explicitly asking his own viewers to dislike his video.
• 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.

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