Im just kinda confused. The last overtly religious video I watched was when I was having an existential crisis 7 years ago, why on earth does yt see me watching a video about the history of waffles and think: "you know what this guy wants to see? Someone going on about how our Lord and saviour Elon musk is going to bring about the rapture."

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago (2 children)

All it takes is one random click on some vague "theory channel", or the the same subject like in this case "musk"

[–] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My Google news feed has apparently decided I want to know more about that absolute fucking ghoul from Blackrock that has declared we're not sacrificing enough of finite time on Eath to capitalism because I read one article about him and choked down the reflexive vomit, and has been giving me more and more articles about him all day.

This is how bubbles are created, I'm sure.

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[–] iamdisillusioned@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Because this stupid shit is spreading like wildfire. My mom won't stop sending me videos like this.

[–] Hootz@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago

Every time I visit my parents I go through their YouTube now and unsub from all the weird shit. I always get the same response from them "idk I didn't sub to that" children man, they come in all ages. I ask her "then why do you randomly drop dog whistles that line up with what's being currently spouted by the right?" 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

[–] ApfelstrudelWAKASAGI@feddit.de 8 points 7 months ago

You have my deepest condolences

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Maybe you don't want to watch it. But the algorithm is meant to maximize viewing time. And someone (several someone's) with a similar profile and tastes to yours went on a viewing rampage in the past. So they are shooting their shot that you'd behave like your peers.

This kind of videos are also engagement bait. So they are the algorithm darlings. Optimizing for engagement will always result in the most extremist and unhinged content being promoted. The mildly curious about spirituality to religious nutjob pipeline is very real.

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[–] Itte@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 months ago

I fucking love this button. Every now and then YouTube spams me stupid channels and this gets rid of them.

Until you know.YouTube decides to recommend another stupid channel.

Thank you Google.

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This button never works for me anymore. It just keeps recommending the channel.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That button never worked:

Go into your YT history (https://www.youtube.com/feed/history) and delete the offending video. Your recommendations should be back to normal within 24 hours (ish). There’s even a search bar for it.

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[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also turn off history

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Turning off history will get you more of these videos

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[–] Hootz@lemmy.ca 41 points 7 months ago

Report them, and say don't recommend. It's our civic duty to spam reports so they get taken down automatically. That will increase the amount it suggests to you but to stop that make playlist that can run overnight, fill it with good shit you've already watched so you don't miss anything new and just let that run. It will hopefully clean that shit out a bit.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 38 points 7 months ago

God how I love using newpipe or invidious to watch yt instead. Whenever I feel like finding stuff, the recommendations are always related to the video currently being watched, which can lead to interesting rabbit holes.

[–] ApfelstrudelWAKASAGI@feddit.de 38 points 7 months ago

Bruh there's more

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

One even pseudo-related vid and they'll spam you. Esp if you're in a region where Jesus sells pretty well. I got a ton of that shit when I was in Kansas city for work.

Plus YT is a business, and for the right price they'll show whatever people pay them to show. Welcome to the cyberpunk dystopia

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Okay but why is that image a desktop screenshot with a single "new text document"?

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[–] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Fuck youtube. You watch one wrong video and half of your recomendations are fucked. And why in 2024 there's no proper tag system yet? I guest keeping things opaque makes them more money.

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 months ago

They used to have a definitive tag system and got rid of it, just like annotations and video responses. sad. Of all things, tags were probably the best too. The new algorithmic garbage has sucked for years.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Go into your YT history (https://www.youtube.com/feed/history) and delete the offending video. Your recommendations should be back to normal within 24 hours (ish). There's even a search bar for it.

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

these are AI generated videos meant to garner views and ad sense dollarinos. They do nothing except waste your time, and probably lie to you.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes all those "list" videos are narrated by AI robots and I've learned to avoid the temptation and never click those.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago

they're all pretty much ewaste on delivery. Thankfully there are a lot of good smaller channels, who actually produce content out there though.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Google wants to radicalize you into conspiracy bullshit because those rubes are easy to sell stuff and get to watch endless videos.

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Google just recommends me videos about dishwashers.

Not that I'm complaining.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We got turned into Technology Connections recently. It's really good. Highly recommend.

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I've binged pretty much his whole channel.

I put him in the same catagory as Cathode Ray Dude and LGR.

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[–] tehlaughing1@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ignoring the original post: I'm so happy to see another Tasting History fan in the wild!

Max Miller seems so wholesome and gives me hope for this crazy world.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You knew what you were getting into with waffles.

[–] ApfelstrudelWAKASAGI@feddit.de 11 points 7 months ago

First waffles, then "is Elon musk the second coming of Jesus christ". Beware the slippery slope!

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I use an ad blocker and it pretty much just blocks the entire logarithm

[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Man that'd make my browsing experience exponentially better

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[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 4 points 7 months ago

Now your youtube is complete linear.

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[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is why I don't use anything with recommendation algorithm anymore.

These recommendation algorithm are so aggressive in recommending anything related to your click (accidentally touched a ritz ad, now I will throw up if I see any more cracker ads), and also baits like these.

Now I use newpipe/mastodon/lemmy, I can click on whatever I want, and not worrying about stupid recommendations.

[–] FossilVerbrechen@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

600K views. whata fuck

[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

600k people who just had to know what kinda nonsense it was.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could be this optimistic

[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 5 points 7 months ago

I'm really trying 😭

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[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

Uh oh. Looks like musk tried to put everything on a bagel.

[–] konomikitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm having the same problem, YouTube just keeps recommending videos completely outside the scope of my interests and I can't figure out why.

I've been using it a whole lot less now, so I'm not sure what Google's end goal is.

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[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Here's a prophecy about to be fulfilled this year: Noodle07 finding a job

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

I haven't been getting that level of craziness yet, but I just always ignore practically everything that isn't someone I've subbed to and isn't about a cartoon/anime I like, isn't from someone I have already seen before and like but ain't subbed to, and isn't a game/topic I'm interested in.

I've seen some of the people I see on the front page of the Odysee app that I've never interacted with in any other way than scrolling past them appear on the front page of my patched yt app. It's insane, but it won't be a big issue for me, in terms of strictly just using the app, until they replace every suggestion with those nutjobs.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

🌅 🌆

↖️ ↗️

Get grayjay Delete your history

[–] shield_gengar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Blocking problem YouTubers has been great for my mental health

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