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Reminds me of how when my kids finish watching a decent-quality kids show on Prime or YouTube, the algorithm will try to autoplay absolute pablum like Baby Shark, Cocomelon, or some other trash. It’s like it deliberately chooses the most basic mind-numbing schlock available.

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Lojcs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Reminds me of the time I finished watching a stick figure fight video as a kid, went to take a shower without realizing autoplay was a thing and came back to snow white hentai

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kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The algorithms prioritize things that other users spend a lot of time watching, not relevant or healthy content. Just addictive slop. It’s such a major failing of our institutions that this practice hasn’t been regulated away.

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dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

pablum

schlock

Hey thanks, I learned 2 new words today :)

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MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
dude baby shark is a time.machine. With baby shark playing 1 year feels like 10. I have PTSD from it. Not even over reacting, If I hear baby shark I start screaning “turn it off!!! turn it off!!”

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- DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Baby Shark Do Do Do Doo Do Do Doo Doooo…
  
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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Keep saying this, and no one has ever had a plausible answer: YouTube does not do that to me.

I watch lots of gun content, you would think I’d be overrun with right-wing horseshit, but that never happens. I get sane channels, apolitical, learning, legal and fun related stuff, like I like.

Here’s my front page this evening. All interesting except maybe some TV shows I’m not familiar with but have watched clips. Don’t think I’ve done much of anything to curate all that, just let YouTube decide.

The only time I remember the algorithm going nuts was after looking at survival gear and gas masks. LOL, quickly run down with crazier and edgier content. That could have been a rabbit hole, had to cut myself off before it got worse.

Maybe it has to do with my subscriptions?

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- Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  One possible answer is that there is only one country on this planet that equates gun ownership with politics - from a global point of view it wouldn’t make sense to have an algorithm that connects fire arms to a particular political slant.
  
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