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Post by agent817 on May 29, 2023 19:30:10 GMT -5
What are some random recommendations you get on YouTube? Personally, I have received some self-improvement videos as recommendations, as well as some other things related to sociology and psychology. While they can help, a lot of them just came to me out of the blue without having watched anything related to those subjects. There are others, but I can't think of any at the moment.
What are your examples?
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Post by Zombie Mod on May 29, 2023 19:42:37 GMT -5
I've had cornette's podcast videos suggested despite never a.) searching for anything cornette related b.) bothered with any podcast.
also had this weird shoot video featuring the former simon gotch pop up repeatedly where he was not happy with someone called enzo.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on May 29, 2023 19:50:41 GMT -5
I got a suggestion for a commercial for chocolate that we'll just say can't be talked about here. Why it was suggested, I couldn't possibly tell you.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 29, 2023 19:53:00 GMT -5
About two weeks I just randomly clicked on a video about someone rescuing a stray cat. For the next few days my YouTube recommendation were literally 75% cat videos. I had to click "not interested" on each and every one to get YouTube to stop.
Every so often some I'll get a recommendation for right wing media propaganda, that gets annoying.
Today I just started getting recommendations for a random old episode of the obscure 1982 sitcom One of the Boys, starring Mickey Rooney, Scatman Crothers, a pre-SNL Dana Carvey, a pre-When Harry Met Sally Meg Ryan, and Nathan Lane.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on May 29, 2023 20:24:31 GMT -5
Given that 99% of my recommendations are either cooking, bushcraft, epoxy resin art, console modding, tool and art restorations, or in some way related to Star Trek, Parks and Rec, or the English Premier League, this one sticks out like a sore thumb every time it pops up, which it does frequently:
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Post by tenshi on May 29, 2023 22:14:26 GMT -5
Man... Watching YouTube shorts about food hacks, food recipes and weird workouts taking you to bodybuilding, Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate videos is... quite jarring, to be honest.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 29, 2023 22:15:51 GMT -5
I eventually had to tell Youtube to stop recommending me Linsday Ellis videos because any time I watched one video of hers it would keep trying to make me watch the same video over and over and over on an endless loop for months.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on May 29, 2023 22:20:14 GMT -5
I constantly get song recommendations from Bands I have never heard of that have like 100 views, and I do not understand why lol
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Post by wildojinx on May 29, 2023 22:25:02 GMT -5
Clone High clips. Never seen the show, dont have any intention of watching it, all I know is the Ghandi meme, but I still get reccomendations.
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Post by ppl591 on May 29, 2023 22:43:25 GMT -5
The bud light foolishness. I legit sure youtube for sports videos. Utree, robbie Hyde, jolly olive etc. Or ask reddit complications. Movie and comic stuff. But the past week it's every other recommend it feels
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Post by Chiral on May 29, 2023 22:52:50 GMT -5
Middle of the night ads on YT can be super weird like 6 hour music video or a homemade podcast or something like that.
Maybe not odd, but Youtube's algorithm seems to only function on my account to find everything I like then recommend hundreds of video essays about why they're all complete shit.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on May 30, 2023 2:24:43 GMT -5
I've started getting like Mortal Kombat intros, and fatalaties and I can't figure out why.
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Post by thirteen3 on May 30, 2023 2:41:39 GMT -5
Jacques Ze Whipper. A renaissance fair performer who whips and makes up little songs while he whips.
I don't know why youtube would even think I would be into something like that, but I'm also equally baffled as to how this guy has an audience at all. Like the ccorwd just goes ape shit for him everytime...and he has secret shows!? wat? It's terrible.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 30, 2023 3:35:37 GMT -5
Someone close to me often wears makeup or clothing in a 1940s-esque style that suits her very well, but her having seen makeup tutorials for it means Youtube sees "1940s" and basically assumes "Oh, she must be REALLY into Nazi Germany and World War 2 in general", which, uhh, no, she's very much not.
It's sort of like how, when Steven Universe was airing and I'd see videos associated with it, Youtube would keep giving me ads for engagement rings, necklaces, etc, because much of the cast are named after jewels.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on May 30, 2023 3:54:23 GMT -5
Haven't really had any weird recommendations lately, not that I pay much attention to them anyway. I do want to say that I sorely miss the days when my YouTube recommendations would give me music videos for random non-US Metal bands. It's how I discovered Ningen Isu, Bloodywood, Alien Weaponry and many more and the funniest thing is, the comments were full of people who'd also been randomly recommanded them and loving it.
I guess YouTube then realized they were accidentally doing something right and decided to correct that.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on May 30, 2023 6:15:19 GMT -5
Jacques Ze Whipper. A renaissance fair performer who whips and makes up little songs while he whips. I don't know why youtube would even think I would be into something like that, but I'm also equally baffled as to how this guy has an audience at all. Like the ccorwd just goes ape shit for him everytime...and he has secret shows!? wat? It's terrible. I saw him in my recommendations like once as well.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on May 31, 2023 2:36:34 GMT -5
Man, you watch one video about girls with big muscles and youtube thinks that's all you want to watch now. Well...maybe that IS all I want to watch now! SO?!!!
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Post by Sir Woodrow on May 31, 2023 9:58:32 GMT -5
Today I just started getting recommendations for a random old episode of the obscure 1982 sitcom One of the Boys, starring Mickey Rooney, Scatman Crothers, a pre-SNL Dana Carvey, a pre-When Harry Met Sally Meg Ryan, and Nathan Lane. I've been getting this video too
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Post by Eunös ✈ on May 31, 2023 10:11:56 GMT -5
I seem to get consistent polls from a YouTuber I'm not even subscribed to asking me which of these countries do I prefer.
I also get community posts from the Sun.. A newspaper I cannot stand.
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Post by thechase on May 31, 2023 10:23:13 GMT -5
BOW DOWN TO THE BOW DOWN TO THE KING!
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