Queen Boo

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.

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SGR

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.

Queen Boo

Youtube pushes right wing content like crazy even if you're left wing af there's really no escaping it, say you watch a video criticizing the current administration from a leftist perspective, well that increases the likelihood of you getting recommended videos from the likes of Shapiro and Crowder calling Joe Biden the second coming of Che Guevara.

Search results will also lead you to right wing content more often then not if you search any subject that the right has latched onto, though those channels are already big so the algorithm favors them.

And finally there's the ads, they're not as frequent as they used to be at least for me but Prager U videos were pretty much unavoidable for a while there, it's how Abby Shapiro's channel managed to grow so fast even though she has no actual fans.

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