Every morning I wake up. First thing I do before I make breakfast is have a nice cup of coffee and go on youtube and look up the white house and go down all the new videos from the previous day and that morning and click ??( thumbs down ) and giggle at how many more thumbs down they have then thumbs up Maybe it's silly ,maybe it's childish. But I love it
It's the little things
As long as you are allowing the video to run for a bit over 1 minute then downvote, it will count. If you are just opening up the video, downvote before it gets to 5 seconds into the video, then close, it won't count.
YT algorithms are designed to ignore any dowvotes that are "instantly" done (within 5 seconds) up to under a minute.