A party is a party, I’ve said way worse cringe under the influence of alcohol, especially if I was flirting with someone (which it sounds like she is).
Maybe I’m old fashioned, but back in the day you didn’t need third party verification for vibes, you’d just go out for coffee or similar and grok their vibe that way.
Except for the fact that the recommendations are completely FUBAR.
My YouTube viewing is mostly vocal coach reaction videos, British comedy and music videos. Bit weird and nerdy, sure, but harmless.
I was careless enough to click an unmarked link shared by a far right troll during a lemmy argument ONCE over half a year ago and I’m still getting recommended Jordan Peterson clips and other such garbage every time I watch something on YouTube rather than NewPipe or SmartTube.
That’s not a bug BTW, that’s a feature of the recommendations algorithm working as intended.
I’d show a partner my subscription list, but they’d have to listen to my explanations of which ones I watch, which are left over from when I was interested in that or that
Not because they’re embarrassing or anything, just I don’t really watch the coffee equipment review channels since choosing a coffee system, and wouldn’t want to be mistaken for someone who still wastes hours trying to choose how to coffee
It’s not the worst idea to see if someone you’re interested in generally aligns with your interests and hobbies and isn’t one of those “hidden” right wing nut cases
YouTube’s algorithm is garbage though, so that information is worthless. Pretty sure it pushes right wing stuff on anyone remotely interested in politics regardless of affiliation. As for me, my watch history is off, so that isn’t possible in the first place.
I get pushed right wing YT channels regularly. I have told YT not to recommend these specific channels repeatedly, yet I still get them. I will say most of what they recommend is, at least, is the ballpark of things I would be interested in, but it seems it goes out of its way to push right wing content on me regardless of what I specifically tell it to do.
You know, it’s funny, I have NEVER been suggested Rogan. I have thought about this a few times before. With him being soooo big I am always kinda weirded out that I have never seen it in my suggestions.
I think they flagged me as a gun nut enthusiast because my feed is literally nothing but gun videos. I am American but live in Europe; one of the reasons I moved here is because of the lack of guns!
Oh God, for a while YouTube kept trying to give me right wing videos. You watch one tool review from someone you never heard of before, and all of a sudden, you start getting trad wife videos. Had to install a 3rd party channel blocker to deal with it.
YT algorithm seems to do alright by me, I’d say for me personally it recommends videos that I have at least a passing interest in about 80% of the time. The other 20 is like old car videos (Seriously I’m the furthest from a “car guy”, I’m not a fuckcars member either, but my interest in the non-tech side of cars is non existent other than “tiny explosions make car go”) and just generally uninteresting stuff.
What it doesn’t do is recommend any right wing crap so ig I got that going for me
Now Twitter otoh, it’s like non stop right wing bullshit and very little interesting stuff. Which btw wasn’t like that before the Elon takeover, my interaction with Twitter before and after is about the same (very little) so the recommendation algorithm shifted completely on its own after his takeover…
It was an actual possibility though. They genuinely did think about actually doing that for that mission and then for some reason didn’t. So there is alternate timeline out there where that’s entirely plausible. It’s not a random question.
Fuck that. I’ve already got a hard enough time dating while not using Instagram and Facebook. Shits gone too far. I fall asleep every night to Battlefield series of WW2 documentaries
yeah right. Have you watched that series? It’s like the greatest ww2 documentary series ever made for history lovers imo. It’s one of the few that goes into full detail about the eastern front. I put on other documentaries too though, just have to search for those that have calm deep voice that’s the right speed and I’m out in minutes. Better than everything else I’ve tried for insomnia
That would have been the weirdest tangent on a Wikipedia page. Jim Henson, Muppets, Sesame Street, retired characters, Big Bird oh was that an early version of Abelardo?, Challenger shuttle dis-- what. What? What the fuck?!
When the guy who played Mr. Hooper died, they worked that into the show. The cast, sincerely grieving, had to explain to a seven-foot-tall canary that he wasn’t coming back. That’s not really he same kind of intrusion from reality, as acknowledging the same giant fowl fucking exploded on national television.
The only possible comparison would be if some show had a gimmicky live episode that happened to be scheduled for 9 AM, on a Tuesday, in September of 2001.
The only possible comparison would be if some show had a gimmicky live episode that happened to be scheduled for 9 AM, on a Tuesday, in September of 2001.
Speaking of, not the child focused Sesame Street, but they accidentally made it canon that in the Muppets universe whether or not Kermit the Frog exists somehow determines whether or not 9/11 happens. 2002's "A Very Muppet Christmas" is an "It's a Wonderful Life" style movie where Kermit temporarily wishes himself out of existence and is allowed to observe the resulting timeline. Shots of the Manhattan skyline in the main universe show no Twin Towers as expected, but there's a shot that clearly shows them in the background outside alternate Piggy's window. Accidental because the set designer or whoever just didn't notice them in the old still used for that window, but the implication is hilarious
It isn’t a good test, because YouTube algorithms are shitty. For example, I disagree with Ben Shapiro probably 90% of the time and think he’s an odious troll, but because I watched him in a debate once, YT pushed videos of him for months after.
I didn’t even watch him, I watched videos very obviously and openly critical of his horseshit. YouTube’s response is to recommend direct videos from many of these fascist sucklers.
I use YouTube specifically to dive into the right wing conservative anti-science rabbit hole. I think it important to understand how many of those people there are and what they believe. I also find it extremely entertaining, in a “this is incredibly sad” kind of way. I have fox news and evolution debunking videos in my recommendations.
Watching nutjob conspiracy videos is a great pleasure of mine. Flat Earthers are so entertaining, second only to the mountains are the fossilized limbs of miles tall trees that once existed people.
They did exist, but there where only two. They shone and lit up the sky, the golden one named Laurelin and the silver one Telperion. From their light the gems called Silmarils where created and after the death of the trees by Ungoliant their last surviving life in the form of a fruit and a flower was put into the sky becoming what we now call the Sun and the Moon
I respect not being so politically tribalistic that you can recognize when a troll like him is right about something 10% of the time. That’s rare on on the internet these days.
But yeah, algorithms don’t seem to get that kind of nuance.
I get to play this YouTube game with students every time me or one of them play a clip as part of a presentation, assuming we’re logged in (and we often are, as students and myself use Google Drive).
For me, I simply reveal my love of video games (and since having kids, slews of kid music) but for them it’s a wild mix of ASMR, make up videos, musical tastes, and so on. Nothing too crazy yet, but its only a matter of time.
I’m grateful I at least have the foresight to use burner accounts for things like watching cringy movies (I listen to podcasts that make fun of them, so that’s a thing). It’d be pretty funny if something like Pandemic 3 popped up in my feed, haha.
Somehow YouTube seems to be filtering out all the videos I play for my kid from my recommended page. I’m not complaining, but I’m surprised that it recognizes that I’m not going to choose that myself on an impulse.
Hello, fellow “fuck you and your privacy settings” homepage enjoyer.
Seriously though, it makes me quite irrationally angry that they still have this shitty passive aggressive message on the homepage years after. Just give me my subscriptions feed instead ffs.
Lol yeah, “Recommendations not looking right to you? Turn on history for better ones!” Uh, no, I’d rather see more videos related to what I’m currently watching and not have my feed full of videos related to something I had a passing interest in in the past. If I want to go back on an old dive, I can use the search function.
Any mechanism you use to increase my engagement is attempting to monopolize my time for your profit (well, joke’s on you, my ad blocker still works and I’ll just stop using YouTube if you do manage to “force” me to watch ads).
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