My YouTube recommendations be like

"I am 28 with no friends and girlfriend"
"I am 30 years old with no social life"
"Living as a single guy at 30 years old"
"No friends and no family and left behind in life"

What are you trying to tell me, YouTube?

It wants you to follow The Life Script TM. Do not forget to get a mortgage and enough children to have a debt to pay throughout your entire life.

Yeah, my youtube feed is full of depressing stuff too, in my case it's the "More AI News! This changes everything!" kind of stuff.

Pretty sick and tired of those, but I can't help but click on it once in a while, so youtube thinks I'm absolutely excited about it...

I suppose our youtube recommended feed says something about us whether we like it or not!

You know that time is over when you see the first ads for varifocals, stairlifts and hearing aids.

@Hazarth I swear I only clicked 1 video about that topic and it seems like YouTube thinks - Yep this guy is pathetic let's swarm his recommendation feed with other pathetic people.

Do those movies explain how to live with that or to change that?

@retoor then they should suggest stop watching videos. There used to be a German TV show for kids featuring an alternative guy (allegedly called Peter Lustig = "Peter Funny") who used to end the shows by saying "turn the TV off now! there is nothing more to come! Wait, you're still watching? Turn the TV off and go out now!"

@fraktalisman if you keep dreaming, nothing will come from your dreams. Even better, shut down the news. It's so retarded. But you can't escape it. Your friends watch it. Fear porn

The user controls what they get in the recommendations. It tells more about you than youtube.

@electrineer No it doesn't work that way.

I watch many tech channels, coding channels, Amsterdam vlogs, weed vlogs, travelling vlogs etc so often also music videos and shit. they don't show up in my feed that frequently.

And the topic in the rant does. What gets shown to you is NOT you-specific. It's an algorithm that does its thing.

@ostream Good that you remember that. Now go back in the basement.

@SidTheITGuy it's that other kind of you-specific, that kind of "you" that others want you to be.

@fraktalisman yeah exactly. It's a corporate agenda to turn men into weak ass soyboys. Well, that ain't working on me.

@SidTheITGuy still searching for those who turn weak ass soy boys like me into "real men". Maybe I should watch more bodybuilding exercise videos.

@fraktalisman Well I fell into a pool of Andrew Tate / David Goggins / Lucas Popan videos.

And it did help me ngl.

@SidTheITGuy it's absolutely controlled by you. The algorithm is optimised to feed you content that you keep watching. If you don't want to see something in your feed, you need to watch it in incognito only. And you can hide specific videos and channels from the feed. Downvoting helps, too.

Every now and then, there's a more exploratory recommendation where the algorithm probes your interests. That can be a bit dense and never learn that you didn't like something. But mostly the recommendations are completely in your own hands.

@electrineer so the new videos / new channels popping up in my recommendations is controlled by me, how ?

@ostream This is why I tell you to stay in ur basement, u basic bitch. Children don't get to speak in adult conversations.

Shoo off now.

@ostream And you're not a virgin because you have been sucking my dick for so long now. And begging for my attention on devRant.

Go on, comment again and prove me right.

@SidTheITGuy you control them with your actions

@ostream still begging for my attention, tsk tsk tsk. Pathetic.

@electrineer what actions exactly, that attracts un-seen videos and new channels to my feed?

@SidTheITGuy Andrew Tate, Ellen Degeneres.. If you watch this voluntarily, it's not weird that YouTube thinks you need some help 😂 Go watch a nice docu about submarines.

I subscribed to a lot of army stuff and get a lot history about ships and airplanes. I love aircraft carriers. Want to walk on one.

Programming related only tscode. Programming content is the biggest garbage on the internet

@ostream would be serious dream for me. What is rainbow warrior?

@ostream look at you, trying so hard to stop commenting on this post but you just can't because u want my attention towards you and that ain't happening.

@retoor maybe you should notice @electrineer disappear from this thread when I asked him to explain this shit of an algorithm. I am sure it's the same with you.

Also, if you think not liking Tate or Goggins makes u cool or whatever go for it.

@ostream you still here? Shoo off to the basement you basic bitch internet NPC.

@SidTheITGuy I think it's a "user's who watch this also watch..." algoritm. I'm always quite careful where I click on. I once got into dem political bubble. That's the worst bubble.

Andrew Tate. What does he learn you?

@SidTheITGuy @ostream want to sit with you guys in a bar while sitting on @We3D's lap receiving back rubs.

@retoor and Sid id paying for the room after that ;}

@We3D sure why not

@ostream u still here begging for attention? shoo off basic bitch.

@ostream u still here? shoo off basic bitch.

@SidTheITGuy boo hoo I have no other life than telling you again how you can control what you get in your feed, which I already did once

@electrineer does seem like you don't. Go on lay it out how my actions affect the feed i get. All the random new videos and new channels. go on.

@SidTheITGuy, @retoor already explained

As a bonus, you can have a small influence on what recommendations other people get especially if you watch videos when they're freshly released.

@ostream please continue dem story. Im at the tip of my chair.

Edit: who am I kidding. We all know I sit on dem casting couch

I don't know chief, my YouTube feed is mostly: Linux news, Minecraft/Gaming videos, Random tutorials, sometimes a tech lecture or two, Funny Vtuber clips, and videos of a cute "couple" that I enjoy watching.

Oh and foxes, loooots of foxes, wolves, bunnies, dogs, coyotes etc. They are ADORABLE.
<3

My YouTube feed is more like:

“This is WHY you attract HUGE crowds of women”
“The paparazzi mindset: strategies to avoid them”
“10 ways to deal with an abnormally large dick”
“Why there needs to be a $1,000,000 bill because my house is filling up with money and I can’t live comfortably anymore. If you see this on your feed, you have this problem too”

@chonky-quiche and "How to not make friends"

@retoor your feed is like “how to use cool slang words if you are white”

@chonky-quiche well dem dam boiii at least you admit dem words are cool. straight bussin.

@chonky-quiche why white? 🤣

@SidTheITGuy @retoor alright u too that’s enough iPad time for today

@chonky-quiche I've cold be your mother little boii (if you look good)

Stop advertising my youtube channel!

@chonky-quiche there's also always unrelated Belgian techno anthem Pump Up The Jam https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI

"When this video was first broadcast, audiences feared it was real, and that jam would be pumped into their homes through the screen"

@electrineer come to my euroturnt party this summa

What the fuck happened here.

@Ranchonyx I'm learning from the master @kiki to start riot wars in devRant.

@SidTheITGuy I bet you can't do that again

@SidTheITGuy whatever you do, don't talk about rust.

@retoor Alright. 👍

@kiki hahaha ... history always repeats itself you know.