Nowadays on social media, YouTube is not only an entertaining place but it’s already a profession. It’s one of the world’s biggest platforms, with millions upon millions of videos uploaded every single day. YouTube came up with measures such as comment deletion, dislike hiding, and moderation tools in an attempt to make YouTube a space where the creators feel safe. Some viewers may think they are the favors being extended to creators but the reality is that these are precautions so there should be a good balance between freedom of speech and a deterrent against its abuse.

1. Encouraging creative freedom

Haters and trolls in the comments section frequently prevent creators from trying new things. When you free creators of any negativity (spam, attacks, etc.), they will focus on creativity and giving better content. The ones standing to gain are the viewers, because a motivated creator makes more varied and engaging content

2. Building a Positive Community

On YouTube, people from all over the world come together. It is a vast space, and for a diverse place, positivity and security are critical. YouTube has that pretty well covered, with creators able to remove hurtful comments and hide dislikes. Viewers’ real feedback is being heard, yet the aggressive and negative words are filtered in a way to keep it all respectful here.

3. Mental health and creator

 Should creators put themselves first?

Creating content is not easy. It really takes a lot of effort for an idea to plan this out and shoot it, and edit it. First, a creator expends extra effort to create the content, then think about and imagines if they would hit by tons of hate comments in it.\nIt’ll discourage them even more to do their work. Sure, healthy criticism is good but spam comments are just ridiculous, not to mention abusive.

With the delete comment option, creators can erase that negativity from their accounts. Which in turn, will shield their mental health

4. Preventing Dislike campaigns

Many people misuse this button which is dislike button, it meant for the feedback but now it’s getting misused for dislike campaign to harass or to target the creator. To reduce this pressure YouTube came up with dislike hide feature.

If you as a creator want to see dislikes on your video then you can view them privately. This step ensures that the feedback is genuine and not influenced.

 4. Preventing Dislike campaigns

Most of people misuse this button which is dislike, it was made just for feedback but now currently being misused for a dislike campaigns to harass or target the creator. To ease this pressure YouTube introduced the dislike hide feature. If you’re a creator who wants to see dislikes on their video, you can still view them privately. This way, the responses are pure and non-biased.

5. Giving creators more control

Just as a viewer has the option to block and mute any single like so should content creators also have the ability to create their own safe space where they can control their own community. There’s nothing wrong with features like hiding dislikes and comment moderation, giving creators more control of their environment.

Final thought

Leaving a safe, creative, and fair space is YouTube’s ultimate goal with options such as comment delete and dislike hide ads are not favours but protective walls. Because it helps creator to overcome negative thoughts and focus on producing content that is entertaining and informative for viewers.
Environment positive = mind positive, and environment negative = mind negative. (Of course, performers are just going to mind less and be better if they feel secure, too, so it should be a win for all involved.)