I use YouTube without an account most of the time either through a browser (incognito) or NewPipe or PipePipe (Android), which means that the algorithm doesn’t adapt to me.

So, every time I see a video, I know that the recommends are unadulterated algorithmic rage. I may be watching a gardening video, there will be some “Women are Evil” type of video, or “random guy talks about why [thing that women do] is wrong, bad and immoral.” I am even seeing a comeback of those “sjw cringe compilation” videos - what’s this, 2016???

There are also A LOT, and I mean, a fuckton lot, of trad Catholic content being pushed. Mind you, I even set my YouTube to different countries and languages, and it’s being spilled that way too.

Fucking nightmare.

I don’t want to end it in a low note, so I will also acknowledge that there’s quite a bit of left, openly socialist, communist content, too. 10 years ago there was none of that, the right could roam free (I even identified as one, lmao). Contradictions of capitalism, I guess.

  • MizuTama [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Had that but with Fortnite yesterday lmao. Usually, it isn’t too bad, I tend to wake up to either video essays (based) or random nature videos (I have never intentionally watched one of these and they are so long and quiet that it has me suspecting the algorithm is trying sleep detection) but had the fun of it being some small channel screaming about #1 Victory Royales recently.