[lejohnq]

I don’t know anything about the algorithm, but my dumb lizard brain take is that I often find comfort in watching the same stuff again. Whenever a 3blue1brown video pops up in my feed again, it’s like seeing an old friend and I’ll watch to the end again.

I can think of many videos like this, that pop up in a feed after many years and you’ll see the comments like “see y’all again in a year when the algorithm brings this back” or “I always click when this video is recommended”.

I have several friends who’ll rewatch whole shows again and again for a similar reason. There’s the comfort of something familiar.

So I guess I don’t mind when youtube does this

[tomcam]

Obviously, you have fantastic taste in videos. It drives me crazy to get repeats. But it’s really good for me to know that some people think the opposite way.

[sixothree]

I like falling asleep to Adrian's Digital Basement. He's got enough content but I often just restart a video anyway.