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"Cortando o Botão do Youtube" (Cutting the Youtube Button) is a Brazilian viral video released by Brazilian YouTuber AruanFelix on December 22nd, 2015. The video shows the YouTuber breaking and cutting the YouTube Silver Button (which is given by YouTube when a content producer reaches 100k subscribers). The video went viral in Brazil, being the first Brazilian video to reach 1 million dislikes.

Origin

The video "Cortando o Botão do Youtube" was posted by the Brazilian YouTuber AruanFelix on December 22nd, 2015, ten minutes after a Twitter message sent by AruanFelix, saying (translated to English) that "The video will have a ten seconds delay, but I think it'll be worth it. What do you guys think?". The Twitter message showed an image of the YouTuber looking to the camera, pointing a wooden stick to the YouTube Silver Button (the same image used as the icon for the entry).

Spread

In only one day, the video went viral. The video reached 50,000+ comments after ten hours. By December 23, 2015, the video reached 200,000 dislikes, receiving the award of most disliked video in shortest time period on YouTube. Many YouTubers made videos talking about AruanFelix's attitude, and the video gained attention of the Brazilian media. On December 26, 2015, the video reached one million of dislikes, becoming the first Brazilian video to reach one million of dislikes. The former most disliked Brazilian video was the currently unavailable video "Despedida de Solteiro" by the Brazilian singer Latino, with a little more than 100,000 dislikes).

The video had his popularity peak on December 26, 2015, and held an enormous popularity until December 31, 2015, when the video surpassed PSY'S Gangnam Style in number of dislikes, becoming the third most disliked YouTube video on the entire world.

Reply

5 days after the video's release, and one day after the video reached one million of dislikes, AruanFelix made a video named "1 MILHÃO DE PESSOAS NÃO GOSTARAM" (1 MILLION OF PEOPLE DISLIKED) replying to the YouTubers that made a video criticizing him, and replying to the people that disliked the "CORTANDO O BOTÃO DO YOUTUBE" video. The video currently have over than 500,000 dislikes and almost 7,000,000 of views, less than the half of "CORTANDO O BOTÃO DO YOUTUBE" dislikes and views.

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