Comment on YouTube now vs then

• CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is Elsa gate?

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can go too deep on this one and find people who probably think it’s a conspiracy or something lol, but the gist is that YouTube used to recommend very very odd videos to kids. People picked up on this and made odd videos. It became like a feedback loop I guess. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate I just found the Wikipedia article and I think it does a good job of giving facts about it.

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    • humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Used to recommend?

      They are still super weird recommendations for kods. We had to take tablet away from my daughter because allowed shows like sheriff labradore are about constant kidnappings, other shows like about children dying from hunger in the woods and other ones I’ve seen about giving birth. All observed just this year.
      I also didnt like English language muslim religious show that automatically popped up. Like wth bruh

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I meant the Spider-Man and Elsa ones specifically. Do those still get recommended often? I don’t have any friends with Children around the age they’d be watching YouTube Kids so I may be out of the loop.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    some weird algorithmic videos people posted because kids would lap that shit up, like pregnant spiderman shit.

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