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[–] [email protected] 123 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Definite green flag for the video. Red flag for the girl, because who the fuck asks about that?

[–] cm0002 108 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not the worst idea to see if someone you're interested in generally aligns with your interests and hobbies and isn't one of those "hidden" right wing nut cases

[–] Jomega 48 points 5 months ago (6 children)

YouTube's algorithm is garbage though, so that information is worthless. Pretty sure it pushes right wing stuff on anyone remotely interested in politics regardless of affiliation. As for me, my watch history is off, so that isn't possible in the first place.

[–] itstoowet 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think they flagged me as a gun ~~nut~~ enthusiast because my feed is literally nothing but gun videos. I am American but live in Europe; one of the reasons I moved here is because of the lack of guns!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Maybe YouTube thinks you're homesick?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Probably misses their old guns

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[–] Duamerthrax 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh God, for a while YouTube kept trying to give me right wing videos. You watch one tool review from someone you never heard of before, and all of a sudden, you start getting trad wife videos. Had to install a 3rd party channel blocker to deal with it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Twitter feels a hardcore far-right recommendation engine. YouTube thinks I’m OK, and want to watch Technology Connections (correct) and Colbert (correct).

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I dont know, thats a pretty good way of a third Party vibecheck thats Not too intrusive

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Might want to see if their feed is full of Tate/Peterson videos

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It isn't a good test, because YouTube algorithms are shitty. For example, I disagree with Ben Shapiro probably 90% of the time and think he's an odious troll, but because I watched him in a debate once, YT pushed videos of him for months after.

[–] Klear 41 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's actually a hidden test - she doesn't care about the recommendations but wants to see if you're using ReVanced.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"I use ReVanced"

goosebumps

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[–] Snapz 18 points 5 months ago

I didn't even watch him, I watched videos very obviously and openly critical of his horseshit. YouTube's response is to recommend direct videos from many of these fascist sucklers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I use YouTube specifically to dive into the right wing conservative anti-science rabbit hole. I think it important to understand how many of those people there are and what they believe. I also find it extremely entertaining, in a "this is incredibly sad" kind of way. I have fox news and evolution debunking videos in my recommendations.

Also: https://youtu.be/yuoFsi2iIi0

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[–] Windex007 63 points 5 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

what do you mean "again"

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 7 points 5 months ago

Gonna assume that's music and not a "how to"

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[–] EdibleFriend 51 points 5 months ago

For those that don't know this actually could have happened. The idea of Big Bird being on the Challenger was floated around by the big wigs.

[–] Starkstruck 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I genuinely don't know how a potential date would react to this lol

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[–] RizzRustbolt 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I got an email from Youtube about 11 years ago that simply said: "the algorithm has abandoned you."

And now whenever I go there all I get is a weird orange and green moire pattern.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Teach us how to escape the matrix like you did.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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[–] RizzRustbolt 8 points 5 months ago

Get really into videos of open network accessible security cams set to experimental dark ambient. Then fullow their creators down into Umbral Youtube and it's videos of tidepool cams, paracausal physics discussions and Saint Seiya AMVs set to Chilean Poetry literature class lecture notes.

[–] edgemaster72 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I would probably counter with "you wanna see my subscriptions instead? cuz I don't fucks with no recommendations" and then she'd just walk away because she probably wasn't even talking to me in the first place

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I get her point but that's kinda cringy to say out loud

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And I really don't want to explain NewPipe or that I'm silently judging her for having youtube recommendations.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My youtube recs would mostly just out me as a huge fucking nerd who's into cooking, I think it may be a rare W.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Same, got cooking vids, gaming, anime, Manga, and leather working vids.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Joke's on them; I disabled history a long time ago, so YouTube can't recommend things to me now.

[–] Sylvartas 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hello, fellow "fuck you and your privacy settings" homepage enjoyer.

Seriously though, it makes me quite irrationally angry that they still have this shitty passive aggressive message on the homepage years after. Just give me my subscriptions feed instead ffs.

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[–] HootinNHollerin 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck that. I’ve already got a hard enough time dating while not using Instagram and Facebook. Shits gone too far. I fall asleep every night to Battlefield series of WW2 documentaries

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Actually a red flag. Like at least 25% chance they're a neonazi

[–] HootinNHollerin 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

yeah right. Have you watched that series? It’s like the greatest ww2 documentary series ever made for history lovers imo. It’s one of the few that goes into full detail about the eastern front. I put on other documentaries too though, just have to search for those that have calm deep voice that’s the right speed and I’m out in minutes. Better than everything else I’ve tried for insomnia

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

The series itself might not be a red flag, but I suspect that the recommendations from that might be because Google is stupid.

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[–] spittingimage 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My YT recommendations are full of game lore and Warhammer 40K. I don't care about either, but Youtube really, really wants me to.

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[–] taiyang 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I get to play this YouTube game with students every time me or one of them play a clip as part of a presentation, assuming we're logged in (and we often are, as students and myself use Google Drive).

For me, I simply reveal my love of video games (and since having kids, slews of kid music) but for them it's a wild mix of ASMR, make up videos, musical tastes, and so on. Nothing too crazy yet, but its only a matter of time.

I'm grateful I at least have the foresight to use burner accounts for things like watching cringy movies (I listen to podcasts that make fun of them, so that's a thing). It'd be pretty funny if something like Pandemic 3 popped up in my feed, haha.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

bideo games, the onion, British comedy clips, pop sci / math

my crazy doesn't affect what I watch online

[–] QuincyPeck 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have a bunch of Soulsborne videos and stuff about the X-Men. My wife already knows this and doesn’t care. LOL

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hypothetical:

The app isn't installed on my phone so they go to browser instead, page takes a moment to load because of VPN, YT either asks to log in or it asks to turn on watch history in order to get recommendations.

I know from the get-go I'm either getting rated really really highly or really low, or that the reviewer will be dumbfounded. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I rarely watch youtube, but got this.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Light mode is going to scare her off, bro.

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[–] Agent641 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Actual no joke second video rec in my feed:

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

To fight ones enemies one must know ones enemies.

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[–] captainlezbian 8 points 5 months ago

Hope she likes Pete Seeger, bread tube, and educational videos, because if she doesn’t I can do better

[–] TheGiantKorean 8 points 5 months ago

So he's a keeper, then

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Little Joel, Veritasium, Vaush, a perfect representation of me as a person

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[–] Viking_Hippie 7 points 5 months ago

That flag has no color. It's a gigantic question mark somehow devoid of everything but the question.

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