In the past few days, it’s recommended:
- Some guy saying vegan diets don’t work (news to me, considering I’ve been on one for years)
- A different guy complaining about PETA’s new game
- A woman saying women in modern games are too ugly
- The same woman saying women don’t really want to be in charge of anything
- Some bullshit from ShoeOnHead
- Paul Joseph Watson
Not sure where this all came from. I’d actually enjoyed a very long, pleasant streak where it wasn’t recommending me any of this trash. Now they’re coming out of the woodwork. Every time I see one of these videos I click the “don’t recommend this” button, but there are always more.
Oh wow, I had completely forgotten about Wetmouth Watson. What’s he up to these days?
Yeah, honestly the “don’t recommend this” button barely does anything anymore, I’ve resorted to straight up blocking channels. The algo seems to fixate on stupid shit and not let go of it. As a personal anecdote, at some point it kept recommending me stuff related to a specific anime, I never watched videos about that anime, I won’t watch anime, so on, after blocking those channels on sight it settled down.
Do the channels you block show up in your search results?
I’ve blocked the fake trailer sites and an anorexic youtuber but if I search an unrelated topic they still show up in the results.
same for me, seems like “block this channel, do not show it to me ever again” gets interpreted as the new “show me less of this”, a friend told me (and take it with a grain of salt) that for them channels get automatically unblocked after a couple months, i didn’t notice that, yet
The blocktube extension will actually block the channel. Even if I search Jordan Peterson’s name his channel doesn’t come up.
Which anime was it?
bocchi the rock
I don’t know how to explain to the algorithm that I don’t want anything with that sigma male theme song with the slow bass music before it goes into that chanting once the female in the video has been owned.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I knew this would be it.
Do you know what movie this scene is from?
After a strangely overcomplicated set of searches I believe it’s Battle of Moscow, which looking at it seems kinda dope - a Soviet, GDR, Czechoslovak, Vietnamese co-production?
It usually starts with a Vaush video. I swear, if you click on Vaush, the algorithm rightly thinks you’re a right wing POS and feeds you more.
I’ve been using Freetube for a while now and i cannot recommend it enough. It doesn’t push you any content aside from the creators you’ve subscribed to, It looks clean and has great theme customization, its ad-free and of course its FOSS.
Like invidious, Freetube won’t use your data to recommend you an infinite stream of curated content for you to consume. I’ve found myself watching a video and just being satisfied there, with one video. I couldn’t handle that before. Youtube’s clever algorithm would never let me watch just one video if I had the time for 2 or 3 or 20. And having a subscriber only feed gave me total control over how much reactionary content I see. Its a complete 180 from the standard youtube experience.
I’ve been getting the same thing recently. I think maybe the Daily Wire ended up with a windfall of cash or something. They made an awful transphobic movie and have been pushing it everywhere, and maybe that’s filtering down to little right-wing minions or something
That seems to be the default for Youtube shorts if you log out of your account. The longer-form videos being pushed are mostly vapidly annoying shit like Mr. Beast or Sssniperwolf.
Prager U and Daily Wire + ads have been everywhere lately with them proudly showing off that stupid movie nobody’s going to watch.
YT is being astroturfed to hell. A lot of leftists have had their income yanked. Billionaires and Wall Street fascists are funding reich wing media and paying YT cubic ass tons of money to boost their shit. No doubt there are comment farms with scripts / AI. That’s what we noticed with Reddit when I was a mod. It is overwhelming. You have a shit ton of fascist loving bot farms in India, Israel, Ukraine, US.
I hope someone can do an analysis on it. They aren’t very inventive. They just think repeating the same shit very angerly will Orwell things for them.
Then companies bitch no one loves them and how young generation ruins their grift because they see through it.
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Whatever gets views will get promoted. Right wingers watch them cuz they agree, liberals watch them because they need to post their reaction videos.
Sounds like time to purge some of your watch history.
I literally never get leftist content, yet I always get right wing nonsense. They must pay YouTube A LOT of money for this kind of promotion.
I almost never watch YouTube, I primarily use Newpipe or Invidious (when possible, almost always rate-limited it seems) and YT basically only recommends me Hasan Piker videos
I just wish I could tell YouTube exactly what I want to watch. It makes no sense. We both want the same things out of YouTube, for me to be as engaged as possible, for as long as possible, as often as possible. Then why keep showing me irrelevant shit, the worst trash from tiktok, videos I already watched, when they know exactly what kind of videos I spend hours watching??? If they would actually get their shit together, I wouldn’t even mind paying for their service, but it’s utter crap!
Huh… My feed is actually pretty good. I get really aggressive with the “don’t recommend channel” option. 🤷♀️ It tried to purge Hasan from my feed for a while though, couldn’t find shit even though there’s multiple channels putting out several videos a day. It’s back to normal though. Search function is still shit as always.
A lot of times they don’t even allow me to do that. Or it’s “sponsored” much like the plethora of “Stick your dick in Hydrogen Peroxie or Isopropyl Alcohol to get hard instantly” that I’ve reported as false and dangerous medical info. It’s a whole whack a mole / shell game with these assholes. They’ll just file another form. Switch their name. Find a foreign company ad mill to hide behind. So exhausting.
yeah it periodically suppresses leftist creators, especially if you’ve recently watched a few videos in a row from more lib channels. I just search and watch a few videos from specific leftist channels and it comes back.
I’ve had to be pretty aggressive in clicking the “don’t recommend” button lately, I’ve been watching a lot of cooking videos in the last month or so and it seems that that’s enough to start my recommendations down the generic food video -> BIG MANLY ALL-MEAT DIET -> woke politics destroyed the West pipeline. I just want to watch chinese vegetable cooking videos and magic the gathering streamers, please stop filling my feed with shorts of Joe Rogan talking about why steak is the only way to prevent the gay agenda from winning.
Every fucking thing i search for and watch on youtube leads to garbage in the sidebar.
Yeah that’s my issue, the recommended feed rarely throws right wing garbage at me, but if I search for l, say, something trans related? Out comes the PraegerU/Ben Shapiro/Epoch Times.
And yet for some reason it’s been giving me (a cis man) lots of (thankfully good) trans content, while my trans roommate keeps getting the right wing nonsense you do. idfgi why the algo can’t give her the good (or even just the okay) shit, since it’s clearly capable of serving it up to me.
Maybe I just need to do a day’s watching on her account to see if it helps fix her recommends.
Tangential, but back on
the recommendation algorithm would always be “hey, you enjoy posting on the Enough Libertarian Spam subreddit, we think you’d like these libertarian and anarcho-capitalist subreddits!” The algorithms are good at telling that someone is interested in a subject but not so good at distinguishing positive vs negative interest and content about the subject.Plus, there’s the $$$ involved. Shapiro comes up near the top for trans-related searches because he pays to have it rank higher.
