I almost never watch “shorts” but my suggestions for it seem to have an…uhhh…adult theme. I don’t watch any such thing with YouTube. Does everyone see garbage like this?
I got a lesbian lumberjack. She’s jacked. I’m not even mad.
Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn?
Submitted 4 weeks ago by Bell@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
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sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 weeks ago
Look how energetic she is
sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Ah, to be young and a lesbian.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
holy shit lmao the first wood just gave up
sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
She knows her way around a maul.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
She’s great. I saw a video of her a while ago using a sword that’s designed to cut trees down.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Lovely!
sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
She really is. She has the radiance of youth and fantastic muscle tone. Long may she lumberjack. 🫡
GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I remember when she got a sword! She’s fantastic.
sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Oh WOW. I’d not seen that! Thank you.
egeres@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I wish I had committed massive fraud so I was sentenced to death and be be able to choose to be chopped down alive by her 🥺
sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Dark but oddly relatable. Have an upvote.
knexcar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But if I click, will I start getting recommendations like OP’s feed?
sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
That’s a good question. Usually I will delete from my viewing history when I don’t want recommendations but it may work differently with shorts. The YT app has an incognito mode, but I think you will get ads (even if you pay for no ads) while it is on.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
She is peak wholesome+handsome content. The fun she’s having decimating those logs is infectious.
Quality recommendation 👍
Huschke@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Before anyone rails on OP too much let me tell you this. My shorts feed was full of tech stuff. Then one day I clicked on a hot girl and watched a few of the shorts. Big mistake. Now even though I’m not clicking on them again my feed looks like OPs.
I guess the lesson here is. Never click on these shorts ever if you don’t want to get spammed by them.
Horrible_Goblin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
agree, I do have some other things in my feed, but I’d definitely say the algorithm has certain preferences.
Probably has to do with most of my interests being pretty nice compared to ‘ooh pretty girl’. So when it compares what I click on it’s easier to find high frequency recommendations based on other peoples likes. I know fuck all about the algo that makes feeds, but my guess is that’s how it works.
Huschke@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Good point.
There is probably also a lot more of these “pretty girl” videos than “5 Fun Facts About JavaScript” or “Here is a Mistake Everyone Makes in C” so it’s easier for the algorithm to serve them.
AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s what it looks like when I’m logged out. It’s just a bunch of nerd shit when I’m logged in. Don’t click the tits, not even once.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Don’t click the tits, not even once.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Soon, titty recommendation-free Google accounts will be a hot commodity.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
This comment visualized
Mango@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think it’s been done for a minute, but YouTube definitely thought I was a furry for a hot minute.
someacnt_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thank god my feed is filled with dogs, kittens and birbs instead of this shit
muzzle@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I think the real lesson is: do not login and purge your cookies and browser storage regularly.
Imhotep@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Also Freetube, Newpipe
BaskinRobbins@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Mine started out like this but eventually was replaced with gaming content and cars. Does anyone know how to get the porn back?
jaschen@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Watch more porn.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Doesn’t work. You ever tried to buy sex toys on amazon? They will not let you run a proper search.
arin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Way to out yourself. Their algo depends on what you spend time watching. Lol
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Eh. Pretty much all of my viewing is related to physics I don’t understand, astronomy I don’t understand, and weird history stuff. I still get the soft porn algorithm on shorts.
Closest I come to viewing is when I’m scrolling and my phone interprets that as a click. Then I get pissed off because that fraction of a second for the algorithm is like letting a single pregnant cockroach into your kitchen.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Try to remember to select the ‘Don’t recommend this channel’ any time you see those sorts of videos. I’ve been doing that a ton lately and my shorts feed is mainly shit that’s actually interesting, and the more I ban those shit vids, the better my feed has been getting.
twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Yeah, the simplicity and also effectiveness of advertising algorithms are sometimes overstated.
There is a huge amount of data that is stored about users, and that does definitely make its way into the ads that we see. Grouping all the user information into ad categories is not a simple task, so there’s a lot of mismatch that happens. But a lot of the time it’s also location-based, time-based (when who views what)/or even just what the biggest spenders want us to see based on our demographics are. Tits and ass are fairly demographic agnostic, so they appear in a lot of feeds regardless of preference or orientation.
Right-wingers are fairly desperate to push their viewpoints and pay a lot to so, so we end up with a lot of vague associations or fully non existent ones resulting in that kind of content appearing in feeds. I’m a left leaning, queer and trans woman living outside the US and I see these bullshit ads from time to time (which for obvious reasons is pretty infuriating). I honestly think that having a small online footprint and using adblockers, privacy-friendly browsers and operating systems, etc. is going to become more and more common just as a mode of self-care.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is just untrue. Shorts defaults to the same for me as a gay man who has never clicked on a single one of them.
RogueFoo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I had a phase, where it suggested loads of shorts from turkish cigarrette factories. I never watched anything cigarrette related and my subs contain mostly science communication, makers and some commentary channels
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Idk when I made a new account on Facebook all it did was show me fake pages with porn. After a while the algorithm caught up to my style and now I have to go find it randomly lol
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I constantly get pro right wing, pro Christian garbage in my feed. I keep spamming do not recommend channel and not interested and yt keeps shoveling that garbage in my shorts feed. Ads are also “suggested” based on geophraphic area.
miridius@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
While that is true, it’s also true that if the algo has no data on you it just shows you what most other people want to see, which is usually boobs
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Yeah, it seems to show me mostly comedy stuff, tool and hardware stuff, and some computer and retro gaming stuff. But almost none of this kind of stuff.
jj4211@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ll say that at least a few months ago, on a brand new system I went to YouTube and it looked pretty much like this, with a fresh history and no login. I thought it was unusual and then I logged in and they mostly went away.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Obviously not.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve never had anything softcore-adjacent even, mine are filled with magicians and obscure shorts that are not sexual in any way, at any point in history. They seem highly targeted toward my viewing history at any given moment in time.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I disabled shorts because it’s brain-melting garbage, just like TikTok, which its based on.
iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
How do you disable them?
LienNoir@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
u can hide shorts with uBLOCK. github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
mcqtom@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Depends where you’re YouTubing. I believe the main solutions are browser extensions and app mods.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Browser extension (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/hide-youtube-shorts/) and ReVanced on Android.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
To be fair, the normal length videos are brain-melting garbage too.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
A statement that generic about a content-base as vast as Youtube’s is just stupid.
myliltoehurts@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Mine isn’t like that but there can be a few reasons I’d guess at:
- YouTube recommends you things other people in your household watch (which can extend to random people if your isp uses cnat and doesn’t give you an individual ip).
- This one is more of a guess, but I’d assume a lot of people would click on that content, so if you never watch shorts maybe their algorithm just gives you the default recommendations.
- If you watch adult content without protecting your privacy it’s most likely associated with your account in their recommendations.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I actively avoid clicking any videos with horny looking thumbnails, even if I really like the creator. Even still, I get shit like this. What exactly the fuck does this have to do with KSP? Why does google think I wanna see this?
myliltoehurts@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah the YouTube algorithm is one of the worst recommendations engines I have seen tbh. It actively removes types of videos I repeatedly search for from my recommendations, and fills it with garbage I never watch.
But in the case of op it looks like a 100% horny content ratio which seems excessive, even for yt.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
I don’t know why there’s so much soft porn on every platform, skirting the rules and hiding just enough to be allowed.
The real porn is still there. You can just go look at it.
trolling5665@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes u horny and they know, mine is all nerd shit like the other guy said
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Lol that algorithm has you in that demo for a reason I’m sure. Not sure I would’ve asked this publicly.
Bell@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Ty for the grammar lesson, I corrected it
starman@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
FYI: when you disable YouTube history it’ll disable recommendations too
Stern@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Mine shows 90% videos from channels I’ve either subscribed to or at least watched before, and 10% random pop culture stuff.
Then again, I don’t actually use YouTube very much, and if I come across a video on Lemmy or wherever I never open it with a logged-in browser. Maybe I’ve inadvertently gamed the system.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Youtube Shorts hasn’t done this for me (I actually follow some creators that make shorts so it’s usually them) but Facebook’s version is infuriatingly just like this and also I can’t get rid of them. Every time I see one I go to the dots and select “don’t see any more of these” but they just keep showing up and it’s always some girl doing a yoga pose in a bikini, camera decidedly pointed directly at her vagina.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 weeks ago
It only seems to show me the same 15-20 shorts since they first started featuring shorts on the main page. They’re relevant to what I watch, but they’re all hella old and I’ve seen the ones that interest me already. IDK why it never updates.
fiend_unpleasant@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Google has more info on you that any other company on the planet… they know what you are into. You private tabs were never really private.
Gabu@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
First, why do you even have a shorts feed? Get rid of that trash. Second, stop clicking on porn and it’ll stop recommending you porn.
sheridan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My shorts feed mostly consists of videos about the signs of depression and mechanical keyboards.
menemen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Depends on whatever psychological profile google has created for you I guess. Mine is mostly about exotic guns, because I found that fascinating for a while. I don’t own any guns and I am not a supporter of lax gun laws. But google does google things.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yeah buddy that’s definitely on you mine is all science and homestead content.
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My FB has loads of this and I am convinced it’s because someone in my friends list is going wild on Asian cam girls
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
On my subscription page, it shows shorts from my subscribed channels. On my main page, it’s girls in bikinis playing on a guitar, violin or drums. I wantch a lot of independent musicians doing instrumental covers, but I don’t recall seeing any of them wearing skimpy clothing.
I guess it’s sort of like facebook, to increase engagement. I stopped visiting there about a year ago, but I didn’t close my account. I now get one friend recommendation daily, and it’s always sexy looking girls I’ve never heard of. These sites register me as male, so they always combine my interests with sexy females, to entice me to spend more time there.
notTheCat@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I have my YouTube history off and before they disabled shorts feed for people with no history this is how it looked like, creepy af
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mine is hydraulic press and video game shit. Idk dude.
pjwestin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Anamnesis@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mine is entirely alt right “comedians” and helldivers 2. I’m pretty sure the algorithm thinks I wholeheartedly endorse the SuperEarth ideology.
Classy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Instagram is way more aggressive. I can’t search for anyone on there without being blasted with highly questionable content and softcore
General_Shenanigans@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My YouTube is well-trained, but this is how my Instagram is. Didn’t use it or follow anybody on it for years. Recently took to scrolling and watching funny dog videos on there. I was showing my GF a funny pupper and accidentally tapped the search loupe at the bottom. BOOM. Bouncing boobies and butts covered my screen. I just kind-of stared at it in disbelief, saying “What the hell?” She got a laugh out of it. I guess this is a big part of instagram now.
vonbaronhans@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
More of a you think, I think. My shorts feed mostly comedy stuff, DND stuff, art stuff, and music stuff. Well, and the odd Christian preacher, which I assume gets wrapped up with the atheism content I also see.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The algorithm makes sense to me, in that on my main PC I pretty much exclusively watch nerd shit on youtube. Tech stuff, 3D printing, machinery, motorcycles, that sort of thing. Youtube therefore probably assumes I am male, so in my Shorts feed seems to be comprised of about 90% boobies, and 10% clips about guns.
But then the algorithm doesn’t make sense to me, because on my living room PC we pretty much exclusively watch cat videos, bird videos, and videos-for-cats (the ones with all birds and squirrels and stuff), How Ridiculous, and Gavin Free. The Shorts feed there is also roughly 90% boobies, but in fairness the remaining 10% appears to be cats.
(Neither instance is logged in to a Google account or anything.)
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 weeks ago
Bro you should have investigated the answer to this question before asking it publicly 😃
It's not to say you're watching lots of soft core porn but the algorithm has definitely decided that you'll like it
Bell@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There’s alot I could argue with but maybe the best answer I have is: why just the shorts? The rest of my YouTube feed kinda sucks but it isn’t porn or titillating at all.
xnx@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Theyre separate algorithms so its prolly the only type of shorts youve clicked or hovered over for a some time
Z4rK@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well that’s just not how recommendation algorithms work. A part of it will be content based, directly related to what the user can be associated with.
However, the largest part is collaboration based filtering of content. That means, our user is put in a group based on his other preferences, assume nerdy tech stuff, and then is shown content that he has not liked yet his group of peers has, meaning he could probably like it too.
In other words - he’s not the one in fault here, YOU are. Please everyone stop clicking on this stuff so that OP don’t have to be associated with your filthy behavior, thank you.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 weeks ago
I didn't say anything about how they work -- only that it shows you stuff it thinks you will like. You're disagreeing with that?
Yes, based on other user patterns and how it categorizes him, it thinks he could probably like soft core porn too. That is, in fact, how it works. Glad we agree.
So it's perfectly realistic that everyone could be clicking on soft core porn to feed the algorithm these ideas, except that OP couldn't possibly be clicking on it, I guess for reasons?
Dude how could you write this hostile and condescending message when I actually made a specific point to highlight the exact point you're making ("It's not to say you're watching lots of soft core porn") in my message? If a little more succinctly.
Assman@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’ve gotten sexualized ads in my work Gmail which I only use for work emails and nothing else. Pretty sure step one of Google’s algorithms is “is man? Show titty”