[GW150914]

What I hate about the algorithm is that I feel it’s constantly nudging me towards “that” youtube. It feels like someone pulling on your sleeve and saying, “You know how you watched five minutes of the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer? Maybe you’d like a dozen recommendations of GG conspiracy material and tweens screaming at FortNite? And hey, remember that time you watched a living historian cook a meal from the 1800’s? Well, here’s some dude trying to eat a dozen hot wings. You like food stuff right? RIGHT?!”

It’s still better than the pure vomit on this fair site, but it could be soooooop much better if it didn’t try to maximize engagement as the primary goal.

[KirinDave]

True. This is because they're attempting to parasite the hashtag, and because Youtube has a perilously bad conflation of conflict as "engagement."

It may also be a warning that folks looking to push social change that teens and young people want so badly should get the hell on youtube and provide worldviews that are not, "The press is bad because it lies and also I hate the 19th amendment."