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.
Every fucking thing i search for and watch on youtube leads to garbage in the sidebar.
My block list is longer than my subscription list, and if I watch three or so videos outside of my usual viewing (like, if a friend sends a few popular meme vids that I watch while logged in) it’ll start steering strongly towards xenophobia and homophobia specifically.
It’s really shit. I basically check my home page to see who has updated, then pull up those videos on NewPipe.
I wonder if there’s been any substantial shift towards mirror sites with the ad block blocker enforcement, which has reinforced the algorithm towards the lowest common denominator. I don’t know how the internet works but if I were speculating to just keep the ball up in the air, that’s what I’d put forward.
lol, i got recommended an hour long video by a nerd who got mad at so-called ‘tankie’ memes about the soviet space program
“part of the reason I’m making this video is because of tankies. what are tankies you may ask? well …”
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
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.
I always had to walk through a minefield of right wing crap on YouTube, but I recently started watching some videos on gender transition and YouTube almost immediately started showing me anti trans crap and videos about “detransitioners” and whatnot. My god, it’s so fucking infuriating.
Also, I don’t know if that’s possible for video recommendations, but for ads, you can click on de three dots and see why they were recommended to me, and it’s always shit like “your age and AGAB and what other people where you live are interested at”… I know Google is paid to just show ads based on those kinds of flags to the people that have them in their account, but my brother in christ, I couldn’t give less of a crap to what other people of my age and AGAB are interested in where I live.
They aren’t honest in those. The “advertiser” specifically chooses certain tags - even specific channels to target. They won’t be shown as Google can hide behind their proprietary BS. It’s all smoke and mirrors to pacify people and they can say they showed you the most benign, generic reasons and call “transparency”.
This is exactly how I got recommended my first alt-right pipeline video. At school we got a conference about trans people, so I looked it up on google and youtube.
Then I found out that there were other genders and I was really happy because agender was what always how I felt about my gender
Next video that is recommended to me is some asshole that kept repeating stuff like: “there is only 2 genders and you can’t change it cause that’s how it’s always been”.
I still believed that one could change their gender, but I was really upset about being “lied to” about the other genders.
Edit: I forgot to specify this was like 6 years ago, so youtube didn’t change at all from back then.
