Thumbs down traffic better than almost no traffic?

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Divinca

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Hi yttalk people,

Would you recommend to promote your videos on a platform even if you expect a negative audience from it (like 50%++ thumbs down from that audience)? Do the views of that 50%++ thumbs down audience outweight it?

I'm affected by this dilemma in two ways:

1. My channel is kind of controversial. It's a prank channel but kind of extreme. Most random persons would consider many of my videos / video ideas over the top (too mean towards the victims).
  • To give you an idea of what I'm talking about:
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  • ^ I would be worried to share that kind of video on a forum/social network of random people. If it was only for the thumbs up/down ratio, I'd better only rely on a small forum dedicated to those so called "Twitch raids" and on users finding my content by the respective keywords.

2. I have no actively followed fanpages on social media yet and personally I only use Facebook and admittedly my FB friends list is extremely low quality. I would consider 5 people friends of mine in my life and the rest of my 207 Facebook contacts are just quick acquaintances and schoolmates of the 3 different high schools I have visited. I was kind of a lone wolf at school, on rare occasions even bullied and many of my FB contacts click thumbs down on my videos just because they think it's cool to give me (ME) thumbs down while I have almost no people who would support me because they like me. The paragraph 1. applies here too, many would be shocked by the content.

Alright, now you know why I'm asking. The question is in the bold paragraph at the top.

Don't recommend changing video content or cleaning up my Facebook list (I would have 10 contacts left, lol. And I use the Facebook list for other things)!

Sorry for my English, I'm from Germany.
 
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Hello,

Okay 2 things...

Getting thumbs down is also good for the rankings. Thumbs down is better than no comments and no likes/dislikes

Second: You can put stuff you say on the internet. However, prepare to face the consequences for doing so. If your victim decides to take legal actions against you, or at one day you'll find Das Polizei knocking at your front door.

Germany is a country who is very capable solving internet crimes. Based on your story the police could consider some of the happenings as illegal. Even if you're just spreading the stuff. And the German justice are absolutely not mild with sentences.
 
The YouTube algorithm is based primarily on "Watch Time", and YouTube has said in the past that dislikes do not affect search rank.
 
I'd say it really all depends on how many dislikes you are getting, if you get 50 views but 30 dislikes I wouldn't go for it personally. But say if you have 1000 likes already built up on the video then the 30 dislikes wouldn't be a big deal and the views would be beneficial and you may even get a sub out of it.
So like I said it's all about circumstances
 
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