[QuietCF]

Downvotes are used by google to suggest content. If you downvoted something, you engaged with it, which google loves and wants more of.

The incentive for users/viewers to downvote something has always been to give other viewers a heads up. This doesn’t work anymore

[HWR_14]

Is "downvoted count as engagement and this boost the video" a documented result or just a rumor?