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Moments when YouTube's "recommendations" make you go "what the fuck YouTube?"

Last posted May 27, 2016 at 01:41AM EDT. Added May 09, 2016 at 04:34AM EDT
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For some reason I got "recommended" a video from a neo-nazi called "Why Hitler Wasn't Evil" and checking out the person's channel much of what's on there is so clearly "alt-right" it hurts. Speaking of, for some reason other alt-right commentators keep showing up in my "recommended" like some guy called "Black Pigeon Speaks" who makes videos with titles like "Why Women Destroy Western Civilization" but yet still has a pretty click-baity thumbnail of a woman in a bikini, or a video from some other guy whose video title was something like "I support Donald Trump because he hates Mexicans" (look I'm not a Trump supporter but I doubt the guy is actually racist like some people on the extreme left-wing claim, though ironically it looks like some extreme right-wingers support Trump BECAUSE they think he's racist… even that aforementioned neo-nazi does too, making me go "I'm pretty sure Trump doesn't want your approval").

I can only assume this happens because out of curiosity I clicked on the videos in the Alt-Right article on this site just to see what they were like, and now fucking YouTube thinks I want to watch more of that shit.

YouTube keeps recommending that Black Pigeon fucker to be too, even after I made it clear I wasn't interested.

I also keep getting recommended Leafy, even though I only watched two of his videos in my entire life, and Keemstar, who I just heard of about a month ago. Not to mention the 'cringe' compilation videos, even though I haven't watched a single 'cringe' video in well over a year.

Mangy Black Sheep wrote:

YouTube keeps recommending that Black Pigeon fucker to be too, even after I made it clear I wasn't interested.

I also keep getting recommended Leafy, even though I only watched two of his videos in my entire life, and Keemstar, who I just heard of about a month ago. Not to mention the 'cringe' compilation videos, even though I haven't watched a single 'cringe' video in well over a year.

I think youtube maybe trying to force queefstar, leafy, and cringe compilations because that's happening to me too.

PatrickBateman96 wrote:

I think youtube maybe trying to force queefstar, leafy, and cringe compilations because that's happening to me too.

maybe those people are paying YouTube so they can get more veiws on their videos …
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Last edited May 11, 2016 at 11:06PM EDT

Why.

Also then there's this:

I love Smash, King Dedede is one of my mains, yes. But this video follows me everywhere, despite the fact that I've already seen it twice. Dedede's face on the thumbnail just makes me paranoid at this point.

Last edited May 12, 2016 at 11:36AM EDT

at some point a few months ago YouTube was recommending a video titled "will the Pokemon series start including sex" or something like that. the thumbnail image had 2 images, one was R34 of May and the other was R34 of a female team Aqua grunt (both werent too lewd).
i might see if i can find the video but i forgot the title so i might not be able to.

EDIT: i cant find the video but to sum it up its some cringeworthy idiot saying that he thinks the Pokemon series will include sex because "X, Y, Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire had """romance""" in them"
(triple quote marks around romance because the only romantic sort of stuff in all 4 of those games was Courtney's interactions with the player)

Last edited May 12, 2016 at 05:44PM EDT

tfw when I watch political vids it recommends me on the front page even vids that are the exact insane opposite of the political spectrum like "why trannies are mentally ill and should be fixed". I guess it's nice I'm presented with alternative viewpoints I personally hate recommendations in general and it creates kind of an echo chamber but really youtube? To that extent? Like whyyyy.

All I get are fucking TOP TEN MINECRAFT MOD THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!!!

And for some reason I can't get generic cartoon/movie reviewer guy out of my fucking suggestion the thumb nail is always some cringy guy face palming or throwing his hands out while making a angry/confused face.

Like fuck off, I don't wanna watch this crap. Pan Pizza is the only guy who makes good cartoon reviews.

Last edited May 12, 2016 at 08:38PM EDT

OH yeah This video has been haunting me for MONTHS. No matter what I do it wont go away. I ignored it, click on it disliked it then left. Fucking watched it twice (once with the sound off while tabbing out) and it STILL shows up in my side bar on almost everything.

Its the most generic "Look at me I hate SEE JAY WABUES" video in the fucking world but for some reason youtube thinks I need to watch it 12 more times. Im pretty anti SJW but god damn youtube must think I obsess over this shit

TheLastMethBender wrote:

OH yeah This video has been haunting me for MONTHS. No matter what I do it wont go away. I ignored it, click on it disliked it then left. Fucking watched it twice (once with the sound off while tabbing out) and it STILL shows up in my side bar on almost everything.

Its the most generic "Look at me I hate SEE JAY WABUES" video in the fucking world but for some reason youtube thinks I need to watch it 12 more times. Im pretty anti SJW but god damn youtube must think I obsess over this shit

I'm not entirely sure, but I think you and I follow the same people.

So I went onto YouTube without logging in on a fresh Chrome Incognito page so it's got no viewer history to go through. I then watched like maybe one or two videos from Shoe0nHead and Armored Skeptic and it turns out just watching them suddenly made the alt-right commentators show up in my "recommended" on the front page. How? They're not alt-right commentators, shit if anything I've noticed alt-righters tend to hate atheists (at least through my experience) and Skeptic has criticized MRAs and MGTOW. Plus Skeptic said in one video that if anything his political views are more center-left.

Recommended videos are pretty crap most of the time, but I've found a few good videos through the feature.
It could be removed, but "YouTube knows best".

Mistress Fortune wrote:

So I went onto YouTube without logging in on a fresh Chrome Incognito page so it's got no viewer history to go through. I then watched like maybe one or two videos from Shoe0nHead and Armored Skeptic and it turns out just watching them suddenly made the alt-right commentators show up in my "recommended" on the front page. How? They're not alt-right commentators, shit if anything I've noticed alt-righters tend to hate atheists (at least through my experience) and Skeptic has criticized MRAs and MGTOW. Plus Skeptic said in one video that if anything his political views are more center-left.

Because youtube is the third most visited site in the world and run by one of the most profitable companies in the world yet they can't fix their shitty fucking web site ever to work properly.

This is the same website that broke the dislike button where it doesn't do anything….for 3 years….and its just sitting there doing noting.

I accidentally clicked on a 3lameStudios video once. For the following three weeks my recommended videos were tainted with his cringy shit.

I'm fukken sick of seeing DanTDM's shitty Roblox videos in the sidebar myself.

I don't even know who this guy is, or anything about him other than the fact that he makes Roblox videos with clickbaity titles. I've never even watched one Roblox video. He's there for no reason at all.

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