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Old 02-08-2022, 03:09 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Queen Boo View Post
YouTube's recommendation algorithm is broken in a lot of ways but one of the few good things about it is that it has exposed a lot of people to music they never would have been known about otherwise.

It doesn't quite make up for all of the right wing radicalization that is bringing society closer to fascism but hey at least I discovered city pop, thanks YouTube.
Doesn't Youtube just recommend you more of what you like? In any political directions?

E.g. If I watch John Oliver, maybe I'll get recs for Destiny. If I watch Destiny, maybe I'll get recs for Vaush. If I watch Vaush, maybe I'll get recs for Richard Wolff?

If I watch Tucker Carlson, maybe I'll get recs for Dave Rubin, if I watch Dave Rubin, maybe I'll get recs for Ben Shapiro, if I watch Ben Shapiro, maybe I'll get recs for Nick Fuentes?

I dunno...I mostly listen to music and watch independent sports analyst videos on YT these days...but I thought it worked both ways. Gives you more of what you consume, sometimes in a more extreme direction based on whatever neural networks or graph databases it's running its recommender engine on and what the majority of viewers who watch/like/subscribe to videos you watch click on most frequently.
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