Hexbear is the last fun place on the internet

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Guy's never heard of Youtube smuglord

    There's an infinite amount of channels doing videos on every imaginable hyperspecific niche interest now, you will never run out

    Just sit down and let the algorithm smooth your brain. blob-no-thoughts

    What's this? A guy comparing how the design and anatomy of the various species in the Oddworld franchise has changed across games in 25+ years? Well I know how I'm spending my next half hour

    Abe's face has more wrinkles in New N' Tasty than in Abe's Oddysee??? The Slig masks were changed between Exoddus and Munch's Oddysee???? pog-fish

    • HarryLime [any]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      search for something on youtube

      five results vagely related to what you were searching for

      youtube: okay we're done with that. now here are videos you've seen eighty times before that have nothing to do with what you searched for

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        It's baffling how bad the sesrch results have become- I have to assume it's intentional and that Google has determined that them being completely unusable drives up engagement

    • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      The early internet was just this but with articles instead of videos. I wasted a lot of my teen years reading X-entertainment’s takes on third-tier He-man villains

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        I'm sometimes struck by how just a decade ago my bookmarks were full of sites with written content like Cracked.com, now it's all Youtube videos (and podcasts)