Free like/dislike videos

Free like/dislike videos are a recurring type of videos in the GoAnimate/Vyond community. They're originally known as free dislike videos, and have existed since the beginning of the community's life. However, they are still being made in 2023 onwards.

This page was originally on the Horrible Vyonders Wiki before it was shut down due to it violating Miraheze's terms of service. This is a recreation of that page (original is lost to time).

Why They're Disliked, and Trashy

 * 1) The idea of making or reuploading a video just to get your fans to dislike it is simultaneously hypocritical and silly:
 * 2) *Your channel will get the dislikes from your (re)upload, not the original video itself, which wouldn't be good for YouTube's algorithm as it silently hides search results from channels that have a lot of dislikes.
 * 3) *What if the video was good to other people, but not you?
 * 4) *If it's from a show that you like, why use a clip from there just to show off someone crying or screaming.
 * 5) A lot of them are made from shows, movies, games or even other people's videos. If you dislike them, that's fine, but why upload something like that as a free dislike video?
 * 6) Most of them are too short for them to even be videos in the first place.
 * 7) Variations of this can exist, such as "free dislike posts" and "free dislike users". They are 100% identical, with the latter variant being used as a form of harassment, especially when trolls end up making these videos.
 * 8) Most of them are made over the uploader's favorite characters screaming or crying, such as the Powerpuff Girls and Sonic the Hedgehog characters. Others can be made over failing a level in a video game.
 * 9) Some can defend either the creator of their videos or their friends, where they end up adding their characters only for them to be grounded in a cliché way. Why attempt to ground someone that you like while covering it up as a free dislike video?
 * 10) They target hated or controversial videos, such as wrongdoing admitting videos, especially if the people making them are controversial or are a criminal themselves.
 * 11) These videos tend to feed the trolls, even if the free dislike video makers are trolls themselves (such as the Dixon sockpuppets, Elliemations, Army Cup, Lilliana, etc. (citation needed; correct if wrong)).
 * 12) *For example, when someone uses an LVM website and they see that their video has been tampered with, they'll upload that as a free dislike video and blame it on the person that they hate the most for making it, even if it's not their fault or they didn't make it in the first place.
 * 13) *With free dislike user videos made by a troll, most of the people who watch that end up clicking the like button instead while commenting something extremely immature such as "Liked! U mad?", which is clear-cut troll feeding.
 * 14) Adding onto #7: Some of these videos violate the YouTube terms of service and community guidelines, and it doesn't matter if they're in need of many dislikes; if it's in violation with YouTube's policies, you will get the strike and not the original uploader. A few NSFW GoAnimate/Vyond videos have been reuploaded as free dislike videos, and the reuploaders are unaware that they're putting their channel at risk.
 * 15) *Fetish videos such as inflation, farting, and shipping all fall under this category and they're something that could enable pedophiles and other sickos all over the Internet; reuploading such disgusting content only gives them a higher chance of being enabled.
 * 16) The descriptions of some of these videos try way too hard to prevent people from liking or disliking something, hence why they may put "no likes/dislikes allowed", which is disrespectful to people who may have a different opinion to the original uploader.
 * 17) *Plus, unless someone leaves a comment stating so, it's impossible to find out who liked or disliked your video. So, if a video's description says that they'll block the person that clicked the wrong rating, they'll be in for a nasty surprise when they realise that they can't find who took that action.
 * 18) Some of them will erroneously put "disowned" in the title instead of simply deleting them from YouTube; no point doing this or using "outdated" to bypass the problem, either.
 * 19) They fill the community with people who can't handle likes/dislikes at all, and very rarely, the comments.
 * 20) The videos encourage opinion disrespecting and instances of the infamous phrase "stop/start liking/hating [thing] now".
 * 21) There are no redeeming qualities for these videos because they're just a waste of time to make, they make people look like a fool, regardless if they're popular or not, and it's generally unnecessary to do. If you don't like something, don't (re)upload it as a free dislike video. Just report it, and/or leave it be.
 * 22) And finally, these videos are likely the reason why dislike-bombing exists, and is likely one of the reasons why YouTube had removed the dislike counts on all videos. Are you proud of yourselves, free dislike video makers? You know what you've done...

Examples
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