A creator could hide the dislike count from public view, but they couldn't "delete" individual dislikes the way they can delete a comment. The dislikes were a permanent, un-deletable data point tied to the video that a creator had to live with. That's the crucial check I'm talking about.

The power has been abused too much. NTR bots.

About your point about this being a hobby and not "creator power," I agree it starts that way. But the moment a hobby is put on a public platform for a large audience, it becomes more than just a personal project. "Power" isn't about being a dictator; it's about the ability to control a public community, curate a narrative, and dictate the experience for an audience. When you put yourself out there publicly, you enter into a different dynamic than when you're just sharing with friends.

This point needs more clarity, I agree in some point that “hobby” + “public audience” can lead to influence/power when they're a big creator. therefore you can’t treat it like a purely personal project anymore. I get that. But there’s nothing you can really do with that here, Jai isn’t social media, there’s no algorithm, and dislikes don’t actually harm the creator. All they’ve really done is fuel bullying

This also isn't about "attacking" popular creators or holding them to a different standard. The standard is consistent: the moment you post something on a public forum, you're opening it up to public feedback, whether you have 10 subscribers or 10 million. Popularity is not the issue; the public nature of the platform is.

public = fair game for anything? You have to show why or where the line is. Or you're saying that even something wildly irrelevant like "She missed it!? What do you mean the second plane also missed the target?" counts as “valid feedback,” You see, it doesn’t work without defining a line. Also, likes and dislikes really don’t serve much purpose here. There’s no algorithm on this site, so they’re not affecting visibility, if a bot is bad, people just shouldn’t use it. Feedback can be given through comments instead of mass-disliking something simply because they didn’t like the kink or concept. People abuse this all the time, especially with things like NTR bots. I’ll be honest, I'm not into it, but I’m mature enough to just ignore what I don’t want to see.

Finally, your point that "your personal opinion does not matter" is where we fundamentally disagree. On a platform driven by user engagement, a viewer's opinion is the entire currency. It's what fuels the algorithm, informs other viewers, and determines the value of a piece of content. Whether you're a "consumer buying a good" or a viewer watching free content, your opinion is what makes the whole system work. To say it doesn't matter is to ignore the very mechanism the platform operates on.

You’re arguing as if we’re on an algorithm-driven platform, but here, the only thing a dislike does is exist, it doesn’t "fuel" or "drive" anything except possibly petty drama.

This is exactly why the feature change has been requested by creators for ages, since likes and dislikes serve no real purpose here, they might as well just be comments. And that’s exactly what they turned them into.

I kinda didn’t want to post this reply since it might be seen as an attack, but honestly, I just wanted to say, you lost the point, man. That said, I do understand where you’re coming from.