You will never see a more disgusting place than YouTube. An algorithm that pushes the most disgusting content like gore and trauma and the comment section of even the most benign video will have some chud shitting on feminists or whatever with a million updoots. Absolute shithole of a content farm website.
[Sexism] I was just watching a wholesome video of a rooster protecting the flock from a hawk, and the highest comment was like "Hurr duurrr I bet this triggers feminists seeing hens run in fear while the rooster takes charge."
Bruh, no, what is triggering is how illiterate misogynists are about the animal world. Imagine choosing hens as your proof that women are weak. Hens, the gender of chickens that also attack predators regularly. Hens, the gender of chickens that are where scientists came up with the term 'Alpha'. Hens, the gender of chickens that can literally change their gender.
link because I'm not a lib, this person deserves bullying tbh but I doubt it's worth wasting time on
And then, to top it all off, in the recommendeds was a thumbnail of a real picture of a squirrel gored up after being shot with a pellet gun, with the title "Watch this before YouTube deletes it" 
So yeah, youtube is fucked up trash.
huh most of the youtube comment sections i actually look at are decent, and i don't get recommended gore or rightwing shit.
i've only clicked on trending by accident and i don't watch shorts... i hear about stuff like elsagate or what OP is reporting but my account is pretty under control. like i used to watch a bunch of slay the spire videos and after clicking "don't recommend channel" on three of them it stopped recommending them to me
It's partially my fault for not making an account.
I wonder if default YouTube is bad on purpose to force more people to make an account and/or allow their personalization algos
the average high-engagement person probably has terrible taste and interests.
the pro move on youtube might be to have one account for each topic, but i'm too lazy for that
I use NewPipe on mobile, let's you sub to channels without an account and you can hide the trending tab in the settings.
Nice! Sounds like its made for me then
Yeah I find it helps minimize the time I spend looking at YT when there's no recommended tab, the only drawback that I really notice is there's no channel playlists which is really only an irritation when there's dozens/hundreds of videos for that channel. Does let you turn your phone screen off and automatically blocks ads though.
https://newpipe.net/