I'm so sick of this genre of YouTube video that's basically a bunch of nerds gathering around a map freaking the fuck out and clapping when parts of the map change color
yah you're right this def is a case of "I'll keep drinking that garbage" but in my defense I mostly just watched tutorial videos and a handful of trash vids now I'm stuck with this stuff
95% of YouTube is the lowest quality schlock. WTYP is literally just a handful of (periodically drunk) engineering nerds cracking jokes over the top of a PowerPoint slide deck and still it manages to be some of the most professionally produced content on the site.
Hell, most TikToks manage to clear the "better produced than your average YouTube video" bar simply by adding a filter or a graphic.
For-profit amateur long form video has been a fucking disaster for society. Reject modernity. Go back.
I might be tripping but like has it [YouTube recommends] gotten worse? Lol like I swear especially the last year my YouTube recommends are full of pure slop that often is crypto or straight up right wing. Like from a popular documentary with 4 million views with a title like "WELCOME TO NORTH KOREA LAND OF FAMINE" or "YouTuber shills for China!!" . I never watch any bullshit like that but it's all over my shit . Although to be fair the more I become a quasi Marxist version of a crank the more I see everything as an intentional psy op lol.
My recommendations have actually gotten better over the years and despite a healthy diet of communist propaganda I never get that stuff. Sometimes I get pragerU ads but I have personalized ads turned off so I know there's a randomness to it
Yeah could def just be tripping . I mean YouTube has always been shit so it's kinda apples and oranges lol. It's all still fruit . Could honestly be because occasionally I watch non political gamer stuff like Accursed Farms and young gamers tend to be very chud history curious .
Idk if the Recommends have gotten worse so much as the quality of content has been chasing the algorithm and resulted in a downturn over overall uploads.
I remember back in college when every third video had the thumbnail of a woman's tits in a low cut top on display. Now the YouTube algorithm filters those out, so we get the painfully white Soyjack face instead. The site also tends to favor longer form videos, so we get a lot fewer comedy out-takes and sketches. Instead, we get 400 Hours of LoFi Beats and talking head rants.
But, more than that, its a lot of content I'd expect to see on a Waiting Room TV playing "The Chive" endless clip streams. Lots of Mr. Beast and sports highlight reels and "You'll never believe this video!" clickbait. Lots of clip-shows from SNL or Pawn Stars or dance videos or hot-sauce challenges. I think I'd have to go back 10 years to really remember what the site was like back then. But I seem to remember more tangible content - original music, tight five comedy sets, visual art displays - and less ten minutes of build up for a thirty second payoff.
I keep my stream pretty tightly filtered (SponsorBlock and some other ad-ons screen out the worst shit) and I don't actually watch much of it. So most of my front page is just Stav or Chapo clips, D&D Let's Plays / FoundryVTT tip guides, the occasional Bad Faith or WTYP video...
Like from a popular documentary with 4 million views with a title like “WELCOME TO NORTH KOREA LAND OF FAMINE” or “YouTuber shills for China!!”
I think a lot might just be keywords you search on promoting content you don't like. If you were heavily into basketball or competitive LoL or fashion/makeup blogs, I doubt you'd see any of that.
But the thing I keep coming back to - even with a heavily parsed down feeds - is how much of this shit effectively just remains ads. Even the podcasting stuff - podcasting stuff I generally like - is just promo material. I think that's what really hurts the overall quality of YouTube today. The Korea/China shit is effectively just ads for foreign policy. The sports/gaming/fashion stuff is just ads for gambling or consumerist spending. The podcasting stuff is just ads for the respective acts.
That's not even really any of their fault, per say. Its just what YouTube has geared itself to reward. Everyone is just cutting WWE wrestling promos all the time forever.
I'm so sick of this genre of YouTube video that's basically a bunch of nerds gathering around a map freaking the fuck out and clapping when parts of the map change color
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yah you're right this def is a case of "I'll keep drinking that garbage" but in my defense I mostly just watched tutorial videos and a handful of trash vids now I'm stuck with this stuff
If you go into your YouTube history you can delete stuff and it changes your recommendations
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95% of YouTube is the lowest quality schlock. WTYP is literally just a handful of (periodically drunk) engineering nerds cracking jokes over the top of a PowerPoint slide deck and still it manages to be some of the most professionally produced content on the site.
Hell, most TikToks manage to clear the "better produced than your average YouTube video" bar simply by adding a filter or a graphic.
For-profit amateur long form video has been a fucking disaster for society. Reject modernity. Go back.
I might be tripping but like has it [YouTube recommends] gotten worse? Lol like I swear especially the last year my YouTube recommends are full of pure slop that often is crypto or straight up right wing. Like from a popular documentary with 4 million views with a title like "WELCOME TO NORTH KOREA LAND OF FAMINE" or "YouTuber shills for China!!" . I never watch any bullshit like that but it's all over my shit . Although to be fair the more I become a quasi Marxist version of a crank the more I see everything as an intentional psy op lol.
My recommendations have actually gotten better over the years and despite a healthy diet of communist propaganda I never get that stuff. Sometimes I get pragerU ads but I have personalized ads turned off so I know there's a randomness to it
Yeah could def just be tripping . I mean YouTube has always been shit so it's kinda apples and oranges lol. It's all still fruit . Could honestly be because occasionally I watch non political gamer stuff like Accursed Farms and young gamers tend to be very chud history curious .
Idk if the Recommends have gotten worse so much as the quality of content has been chasing the algorithm and resulted in a downturn over overall uploads.
I remember back in college when every third video had the thumbnail of a woman's tits in a low cut top on display. Now the YouTube algorithm filters those out, so we get the painfully white Soyjack face instead. The site also tends to favor longer form videos, so we get a lot fewer comedy out-takes and sketches. Instead, we get 400 Hours of LoFi Beats and talking head rants.
But, more than that, its a lot of content I'd expect to see on a Waiting Room TV playing "The Chive" endless clip streams. Lots of Mr. Beast and sports highlight reels and "You'll never believe this video!" clickbait. Lots of clip-shows from SNL or Pawn Stars or dance videos or hot-sauce challenges. I think I'd have to go back 10 years to really remember what the site was like back then. But I seem to remember more tangible content - original music, tight five comedy sets, visual art displays - and less ten minutes of build up for a thirty second payoff.
I keep my stream pretty tightly filtered (SponsorBlock and some other ad-ons screen out the worst shit) and I don't actually watch much of it. So most of my front page is just Stav or Chapo clips, D&D Let's Plays / FoundryVTT tip guides, the occasional Bad Faith or WTYP video...
I think a lot might just be keywords you search on promoting content you don't like. If you were heavily into basketball or competitive LoL or fashion/makeup blogs, I doubt you'd see any of that.
But the thing I keep coming back to - even with a heavily parsed down feeds - is how much of this shit effectively just remains ads. Even the podcasting stuff - podcasting stuff I generally like - is just promo material. I think that's what really hurts the overall quality of YouTube today. The Korea/China shit is effectively just ads for foreign policy. The sports/gaming/fashion stuff is just ads for gambling or consumerist spending. The podcasting stuff is just ads for the respective acts.
That's not even really any of their fault, per say. Its just what YouTube has geared itself to reward. Everyone is just cutting WWE wrestling promos all the time forever.