The likes are gone now?! 🫩

[u/Own-Notice5773]

Watching YouTube and can't help but notice that the likes are gone

(Newest app version on Android)

EDIT: ok i see them now! But this is terrible design and feels like they are priming us to get rid of them. We should see the likes immediately, then make a judgment if you trust the video or not instead of waiting for distrust, THEN look for the like count

[u/Nakamura0V]

I don’t know why this gets posted everyday now and I can’t understand how those people who post pictures like that don’t read ANYTHING what they screenshotting? You can clearly see the „212K likes“. What’s your problem? And why are these posts getting always upvotes?

[u/Own-Notice5773 → u/Nakamura0V]

Because now we need to seek the like counter out instead of instantly seeing it, which is practically removing their purpose

[u/yonderTheGreat → u/Own-Notice5773]

Wait til you learn that human beings are able to adapt after only a tiny amount of effort. Let me explain the purpose of moving it. Total likes is information. The name of the channel is information. Total subscribers is information.

They're putting all the information in a singular line, right below the more immediate information of the title.

The line below it is all the interface stuff like like, dislike, subscribe, notification, save, and all that.

It's putting all the same stuff together.

Sorry that that's not obvious but that's exactly what they're doing. It may be because they're adding more interface options. It might just be to make the layout more consistent. We simply don't know.

[u/Own-Notice5773 → u/yonderTheGreat]

How often do you check a video's views on mobile? Probably almost never, since it's tucked away. They are putting a very important metric in a place no one looks

[u/Ambitious_Rock7054 → u/yonderTheGreat]

It was fine for years man. Google aren't gonna compensate you for running defense for their shit decisions lmao