And it will never recommend you any new topic you might actually want to learn about either.
YouTube uses the same recommendation algorithm as Gmail.
“Oh you bought a mattress? You must want more mattress content and to know every time someone talks about mattresses.”
I don’t even know why stuff appears. Recently I got a bunch of NASCAR come up. I think it’s because I follow the NLS in Germany and watched an Obama video and that mooshed motorsport and the USA into the algorithm.
I get NASCAR sometimes as well. I follow swedish speedway, and FIM Speedway GP and YouTube can’t tell them apart…
Me, never leaving the Subscription tab: ???
Creators often quote how few of their viewers come from subscribers. I am amazed that the vast majority of YouTube watchers just happily let YouTube decide what shit to show them.
I doubt it’s the majority of watchers, but it is the majority of time watched.
I watch an occasional half our while eating, exclusively from my subscriptions feed.
But the kind of person who just watches whatever YouTube shovels at them – they’re watching for hours and hours on end, just letting the next video autoplay every time.
I don’ think there are more braindead watchers – it’s just that the braindead watchers are the ones who watch the most.
It’s because they’re generally pretty good at showing me interesting content. Also, if you regularly watch a given creator’s videos as soon as they come out, they will be at the top of your recommend anyway.
That’s wild. I guess it’s like channel surfing, but jeez.
Did you know you can actually turn off your watch history, and it will stop recommending videos entirely?
I did it a while back to help stop me from refresh-addiction, and it totally works! You still get a subscription feed but it’s chronological, and it will still suggest relevant videos in the sidebar when you’re watching something.I want it to recommend some things. So I just curate my history obsessively.
It still recommends videos on the sidebar while watching other stuff. If your watching Tom Scott for example you will get a lot of relevant videos and a mix of his other vids on the side.
Warch one breaking bad/better call saul scene, and now the whole series is in my feed.
You can delete a video from your history and it will stop the algo from doing that. But yeah, it’s a really annoying algo.
I click on ONE my little pony video that one time.
that’s different. you really were addicted.
Just watch in a private tab. If you find a channel worth following that way, then it can be promoted to “subscribed” status
I don’t know how the algorithm is still so bad and seemingly based on like single keywords
wow, you watched the whole thing!
