The Most Disliked YouTube Videos Of All Time

Not many people can claim to have broken a YouTube record, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Whether you're a musician or a traditional vlogger, there isn't a creator out there that doesn't dream of the day one of their videos becomes the most-liked on the platform (a crown that Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee snatched in 2017), but nobody wants their name linked to the opposite end of the spectrum. To have a video that is among the most-disliked videos ever is not a good look, unless you made that video with the sole purpose of getting dislikes, which one of the creators we're going to cover actually did. The same cannot be said for the rest, however.

From huge YouTubers who messed up big time to singers that millions of people wish would shut up, we've got the lowdown on the lot. These are some of the most-disliked YouTube videos ever.

Logan Paul was on top of the world as 2017 drew to a close, but his end of year trip to Japan would end up costing him dearly. The in-your-face vlogger made a general nuisance of himself, swinging a raw octopus around on Tokyo's busiest pedestrian crossing and throwing a giant Pokemon ball at people in the street. He probably would have gotten away with it all had he decided against heading out to Aokigahara Forest, a notorious spot for suicides. As dumb luck would have it, Paul and his posse stumbled across the body of a recently deceased man and decided to vlog it. The backlash was instantaneous, as Paul later explained to The Hollywood Reporter.

"I'm getting texts from friends, family, colleagues, accomplices," he said. "I'm like, wow, I really f***** up, to a degree that this may be the only thing people remember me by, and that is my worst nightmare." Paul swore that he was a changed man when he sat down with THR in October 2018, and he also acknowledged that he maybe could have handled his apology a little better. "You could tell in the video, I'm like, f****** tired," he said. "It's horrible." Paul's apology video (which was heavily criticized, both in the YouTube community and on Twitter, per Hello Giggles) has been disliked 2.2 million times to date.

YouTube gives out awards to creators who reach certain milestones with their channels. Hit 100,000 subscribers, and you'll be sent a Silver Play Button, though what you choose to do with it is entirely up to you. For the majority of people, a Silver Play Button would take pride of place in their office or home, but for Brazilian YouTuber Aruan Felix, it simply wasn't good enough. Upon receiving his Silver Play Button, Felix told his subscribers that all he was interested in was getting the Gold Play Button, which you're awarded when you hit a million subs.

What did Felix do with his Silver Play Button? He destroyed it in a 2015 video titled Cortando o Botão do YouTube, cutting it open to find out what was inside. "I didn't do this because I'm stupid or anything," Felix said, according to YouTube translator, TheGeladoo. "This button was holding me back with only 100,000 people, and I don't want just 100,000 people. That's why I had to break it." The South American internet sensation clearly thought this would come off as ambitious, but instead, he came off looking ungrateful. More than 2.5 million people have disliked his video, making it the ninth most-disliked on YouTube overall.

Long before Bibi H was being trolled for releasing a terrible song, there was Rebecca Black. Back in 2011, Black's mom and dad decided to indulge their 13-year-old daughter's desire to become a pop star by paying for her to have a music video produced by the Ark Music Factory, a Hollywood-based company that "charges wealthy parents a fee in return for the chance to turn their offspring into stars," The Independent reported. "Friday" was soon dubbed the worst song ever, with respected music outlets such as Rolling Stone calling it out for "sub-par production values, grating hooks and extraordinarily stupid lyrics."

Sadly, these comments were kind compared to the abuse Black received online. "I hope you cut yourself and I hope you get an eating disorder so you'll look pretty and I hope you go cut and die," one hater reportedly told the teen (via TMZ). As much as she wanted to ignore it, Black was no match for the trolls as those dislikes continued to stack up. "I saw everything," she recalled when she sat down with the BBC in 2018. "When I started reading those negative comments I just couldn't stop, I just kept going and going and going. People commenting don't think a real person has to read this and move on with their day." That TGIF tune has been disliked more than 3.3 million times to date.

The fifth most-disliked YouTube video of all time isn't a vlog or a music video. It's a reveal trailer for Activision's Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. When the video dropped on YouTube in 2016, it was met with immediate resistance from fans, despite the publisher's attempts to placate them. "Infinite Warfare returns to the roots of the franchise where large-scale war and cinematic, immersive military storytelling take center stage," the video description claims, though gamers weren't buying it. What many fans saw was the franchise continuing to move away from its roots, and they launched a dislike campaign against the reveal trailer as a form of protest.

The issue, as far as die-hard Call of Duty fans were concerned, was that Infinite Warfare took place during a future (and therefore entirely fictitious) war as opposed to a historical one. "We know that there are people in our community who are nostalgic for the boots-on-the-ground-style gameplay, and that's why we made Modern Warfare Remastered," Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg said when word of the mounting number of dislikes reached him (via Kotaku). "But we also have millions of people in our community who want to have new innovative experiences in the game each year and Infinite Warfare is going to deliver that."

From his alleged past as a school bully to his total disregard for his neighbors, Jake Paul (the younger brother of shamed vlogger Logan Paul) is one of YouTube's most polarizing figures. In 2017, that divide was highlighted by the response to Jake's rap song "It's Everyday Bro." YouTube diss tracks were big at the time, so Jake decided to go after his ex, fellow YouTuber Alissa Violet.

The official video for "It's Everyday Bro" has been viewed more than 225 million times. That's a staggering figure, but it's not the most telling one — the video only has 2.6 million likes versus 4.1 million dislikes, making it the third most-disliked video on the entire platform as of December 2018. The production value of the video itself is there, but the music leaves a lot to be desired. "The best way to characterize those bars? Corny and cliché AF," The Musical Hype said in a scathing review. "The Disney Channel line clearly eliminates any sense of credibility the Ohioan has. True, he's doing mad numbers on YouTube, but still, how many more rappers — or faux rappers — are going to brag about a Rolex?"

Ironically, it was YouTube itself that dethroned Justin Bieber. Every year the company releases what it calls the Rewind video, which is supposed to be a recap of all the big events that took place in the YouTube community over the past 12 months. The warning signs were there the previous year: The 2017 Rewind video became the 13th most disliked YouTube clip in history with 2.1 millions dislikes to date, but 2018's Rewind blew that and every other video we've mentioned out of the water, storming to the top of this most undesirable chart. With more than 14 millions dislikes, it doesn't look like Rewind 2018 will relinquish the crown any time soon, but then again, there's always Rewind 2019 to look forward to.

Why did YouTube's 2018 Rewind video bomb so hard? There are multiple reasons, but in a nutshell, it was Will Smith, Fortnite, and advertisers. Much of the YouTube community questioned Smith's prominence in the Rewind video, considering he joined YouTube in 2018 and hadn't done anything groundbreaking on the platform. There were a lot of references to the game Fortnite, and critics also took issue with YouTube's target audience. Marques Brownlee (a tech YouTuber featured in the 2018 Rewind video) admitted that Rewind is now more about showcasing clean, family-friendly creators to suck in advertisers than it is about celebrating the biggest YouTube moments.