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by ethbr1 823 days ago
YouTube UX: "We have this one weird cohort that's responding abnormally to all our UI A/B testing..."
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Only until enough parrot owners find out about this, at which point parrots overtake the human population of Youtube and the metrics start catering to them.
YouTube optimizing for toddlers and parrots makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it...

And that's to say nothing of the parrot ad click farms.

> and the metrics start catering to them

"in order to access this functionality, you must first chew through the charging cable"

Leading to something a bit like this, then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XFe2g98RU
Just wait until the stochastic parrots discover YouTube…
Parrots are the original stochastic parrot
“Odd that its 50 year old males in Florida”