According to YouTuber, YellowFlash 2, the oft-ridiculed streaming show, Santa Inc, is heading closer and closer to 200,000 dislikes on YouTube… compared to only 4,000 likes. While some have said the backlash is a result of bigotry, others claim that the show is just really that bad. As for Rotten Tomatoes, they’ve shut down most ways to review the series, and there aren’t even any critic reviews showing at all. This despite a quick Google search revealing that critic reviews do, in fact, exist.
“This may be why the show has received such strangely harsh backlash. While obviously not everyone’s cup of cocoa and no masterpiece, Santa Inc. is not nearly bad enough to warrant the atrocious 1.1 out of 10 rating on iMDB and mind-boggling 4% audience approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s certainly true that the series will not be appreciated by parents seeking Christmas entertainment for their kids, or by any morally and politically conservative audiences; it may even be true that the show simply isn’t that funny to many viewers, but it’s simply not that bad.”
The above quote is not necessarily what I would call a glowing review. You’re not in good territory when the reviewer has to say you’re not that bad.
Whether or not the dislikes are visible by the time YouTube completely hides them on December 13th has yet to be seen. Nonetheless, this is for sure a stinker that HBO Max would likely love to just move past.
As was said on That Park Place before, censoring audience reactions to videos is probably not going to work. In fact, you have to wonder if the removal of the “dislike button” is fueling much of the interest in just how badly Santa Inc is viewed.
My curiosity now is what will happen next to stifle online discourse. What else can they take away to try to make the official narrative unavoidable, inarguable? If this is how removing dislikes on YouTube goes down, then the button goes down in a blaze of glory.
