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Over the past year or so, I''ve been getting recommendations of music compilations full of buzzword-ish titles (i.e. "relaxing coffee jazz music", "Kenny G greatest hits", "music for meditation/relaxing/sleep/work yadda yadda yadda zen") in my YouTube recommendations, most of them with stock image thumbnails and posted by extremely suspicious channels that often posts multiple instances of the same video with the exact same tracklist/song.

I find this weird, since I typically only listen to studio albums by artists on YouTube and never specifically searched for any of the buzzword above. Does anyone know what caused them to be popular/recommended all of a sudden?

Youtube's algorithm tries to find you things you might be interested in.
At least it used to be.

Now, it tries to bring you to trendy popular videos that other people clicked on. Vague and non-specific videos tailored to continue the cycle and maybe sparks interest. It gives you a large allotment of varied, big videos that grabs your attention the most. Buzzwords and big flashy thumbnails bring in the views, so that's a correlation.

On another note, people who listen to music have it noticeably bad, because you get things so wildly different and disjointed to what you want.

If you want to know how bad my recommendation list is, check these channels I've only discovered through recs:

This one.
Or this one.
And another one.
And another one.
And another one.
And another one.
That's not the end of it!

This, YouTube. This is why no one takes you seriously anymore.

Agree! Advertising depends on the videos you watched and liked