Current Events > Why does YouTube keep recommending me these random videos?

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Right now it's recommending me a video of some guy talking about his plane trip that's several hours old and has 12 views. Why?

You know you've hit rock bottom when this hits you're recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/live/vyE34GHtmb8?si=KvPh0kZ9486qgQbI

Especially when you realize he has 325 videos just like it.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f3e1f744.jpg

Here's an example. What the hell is this doing here?

UnholyMudcrab posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f3e1f744.jpg

Here's an example. What the hell is this doing here?

The algorithm is designed to throw things at you every now and then that it doesn't really know if you'll like or not. If you engage? It adds new data to its information on you, more videos it can show you. If you refuse to click it or tell it not to recommend that video again? It now actually knows you don't have much interest in it.

This isn't to say it won't try again later since peoples tastes change over time.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f3e1f744.jpg

Here's an example. What the hell is this doing here?

The only thing to do is watch the Suburban Sasquatch Spotlight Episode again.

Strider102 posted...

You know you've hit rock bottom when this hits you're recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/live/vyE34GHtmb8?si=KvPh0kZ9486qgQbI

Especially when you realize he has 325 videos just like it.

One sitting and smiling for 4 hours video could be written off as someone goofing around. Doing it for over 9 years is something else.

Youtube won't get rid of some videos I've already watched from the recommended. They've been there for days and just won't go away.

LeoRavus posted...

One sitting and smiling for 4 hours video could be written off as someone goofing around. Doing it for over 9 years is something else.

That in addition to doing it for 4 hours straight. And getting anywhere between 10,000 views to 300,000 views.

What I learned is to subscribe to a few channels. It's almost 95% the same stuff I like that comes up.

I expect shorts to throw random stuff though.

So if I sub to a car restoration channel. I Get car shorts for good and the bad. I got motorcycles breaking the law speeding for months. MaxWrist for example. Couldnt wait till they got him and it felt good when it did. So it's something you are subbed to that's throwing these

YouTube's algorithm fucking sucks, that's why. Instead of recommending videos that are related to what you're enjoying it just spews random shit at you. Used to be you could go down an endless rabbit hole of related videos, not the case anymore

MC_BatCommander posted...

YouTube's algorithm fucking sucks, that's why. Instead of recommending videos that are related to what you're enjoying it just spews random shit at you. Used to be you could go down an endless rabbit hole of related videos, not the case anymore

In addition to that it also shows you videos you've already seen or been recommended when you're trying to search for something else.

MC_BatCommander posted...

YouTube's algorithm fucking sucks, that's why. Instead of recommending videos that are related to what you're enjoying it just spews random shit at you. Used to be you could go down an endless rabbit hole of related videos, not the case anymore

I guess what it's trying to do is prop up small creators, but, like, maybe show me videos that are at least tangentially related to what I'm watching?

I'd rather get bombarded by alt-right shit stains than the child funerals and goodbye videos from terminally ill YouTubers I would get. The one that was recommended to me today was from a YouTuber who had ran a small knitting channel for several years. She was explaining to her audience from her bed that she was too weak to continue making videos and that she probably won't survive the month. The shit is depressing as fuck.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f3e1f744.jpg

Here's an example. What the hell is this doing here?

Serves you right for watching RLM