I checked out the Diablo Blizzard trailer on YouTube a couple of hours ago and it had 410K dislikes. I just looked again, and it has dropped to 370K dislikes. People in the comments are saying that 200K+ dislikes have been deleted. How is this even possible? Is Blizzard reporting "bot dislikes" or something to YouTube and having them deleted? Or does Blizz have the ability to delete them directly?
That shouldn't be possible. Youtube and ActiBlizz are two separate corporations. How could possibly Blizz be able to delete dislikes? Unless YT is up to no good, again.
Ok, I have a theory, but just a theory.
They deleted the video and re-uploaded it 3 times until they gave up.
Maybe, I don't know, they found out some sort of system (like setting the video on unlisted, private, etc) that restores or wipe it's count.
Or, and I wouldn't doubt, there are bots attacking the video.
I think it happened once at least since the likes also got reset but the other times only negative comments and dislikes were removed. My information is from Reddit and my own drunken ass though, so it could be aliens.
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