Ava, The King's Breakfast

Jeff Kaplan was asked if his new FPS game 'The Legend of California' will be free-to-play 🎮 "We're too small of a team. To be free-to-play, you need 8B players and 2,000 devs cranking out fucking keychains like a sweatshop. That's not us"

MKBHD is right - and it won’t happen. YouTube Rewind 2018 hit 20 million dislikes in weeks. 86% of viewers downvoted it. The most disliked video in platform history, created by the platform itself. Three years later, YouTube removed public dislike counts. In January 2026, they made every Rewind video private. YouTube’s stated reason: protecting small creators from harassment. The actual math: YouTube generated $40.4 billion in ad revenue in 2025, more than Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery combined. That $40.4 billion comes from brands buying placement against content. Brands do not buy placement against content with a visible 86% disapproval rating. The dislike count was the single most efficient quality signal on the internet. One glance told you whether a tutorial actually worked, whether a product review was genuine, whether a news clip was credible. The Return YouTube Dislike extension still has millions of users four years later because the demand never went away. People are installing third-party software to restore a feature YouTube deliberately killed. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim’s response to the removal was to change his only YouTube video’s title to ask why the dislike count was removed. He compared the announcement video to a hostage tape. The company’s own creator liaison looked, in Karim’s words, like someone being forced to deliver good news about a decision he knew was bad. This is the buyer versus user problem at $60 billion scale. YouTube sells to CMOs and media buyers. CMOs do not want their Superbowl spot sitting next to a dislike ratio that signals the audience hates it. The viewer who lands on a scam tutorial with 50,000 likes, no visible dislikes, and a comment section flooded with bots has no way to know. That viewer is not YouTube’s customer. The CMO is. MKBHD knows this. He said the same thing in 2021 when YouTube first removed it. The fact that he’s still saying it four years later tells you the creator community never accepted the change. But a $60 billion revenue machine does not restore a feature that costs it even 1% of ad sales. The math on that is $600 million annually. That’s why MKBHD said “if I were CEO” and not “when YouTube does this.” He already knows the answer.

Dear Nakama🏴‍☠️ My deepest gratitude to all of you for showing Mr9 so much love. My whole heart was in this and I’m thrilled that you are enjoying season 2! Keep following your dreams! Bye bye, Baby. 👑🫶

Bungie dev responded to accusations that no one who is working on Marathon worked on Halo He named over 30 people who worked on a Halo title that are still at the company