YouTube users really hate the new Ghostbusters trailer

New Ghostbusters trailer is the &quot;most disliked&quot; on YouTube.

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published 3 May 2016

For the first time in YouTube history, a movie trailer has ended up on the site's list of all-time most disliked videos. In spot number 18, below Justin Bieber's "Baby" and Rebecca Black's "Friday," now rests the trailer for the new female-fronted Ghostbusters film, due out July 15. The movie, starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones, has attracted nearly 650,000 dislikes and only about 221,000 likes.

The unusually high number of dislikes is leading some to say they smell a rat. BBC says it seems like a "concerted campaign to vote down the video" and ScreenCrush has dubbed the influx of dislikes an "unhealthy fixation" for a "certain subset of people on the internet." While it's hard to say what the exact reason is for the film being so disliked, there's a chance the efforts are led by the same group raging over the director's choice to cast women in roles previously played by men.

However, director Paul Feig contends it could also be because some fans just "don't want an old property touched." Or, as the film site COS surmises, it could also simply be "some bad apples and temperamental brats abusing their right to an opinion."