Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn?

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• vegantomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think this stuff is high engagement content among a large subset of the population. So it gets recommended a lot.

  Maybe if you watch videos with a niche that doesn’t also draw in the same audience as the borderline porn stuff’s, you will see less of these shorts. Alternatively, you can download a YouTube client that gives you a completely different interface for subscriptions and recommendations, or use an Invideous instance.

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• egonallanon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah it’s all that and that bald firefighting bloke. Honest kind of OK with it.

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• davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My main account there is nothing like this, even the shorts are mostly pop science stuff.

  But my other account is very much this way on purpose, much like my other Lemmy account, X account (really the only one I use anymore), etc.

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• VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When I’m logged in, the few shorts they show me tend to be from channels I’m subscribed too. If I go to the homepage incognito (back when they still showed you stuff when you rejected their terms) it was mostly either shock value, expensive stuff, sexualised stuff, sports. So lowest common denominator stuff, I guess.

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• simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve found that shorts is pretty aggressive about serving up more of the same stuff if you watch something and don’t downvote it.

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google knows!!!

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• Muffi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had the idea to start counting it as a “Thirst-trap BINGO” each time every single thumbnail for shorts recommendations had a half naked woman with her mouth slightly open. Turns out that it happened more than half the time, and the game quickly got boring.

  I have never watched a single short on YouTube, so apparently it’s just the default recommendations that are horny af.

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• lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, but for some reason it’s asian women doing sports. I never watch shorts anyway so whatever.

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• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah lots of thirst traps. I have to admit I’ve taken the bait and honestly it’s not worse than anything else on my feed so whatever.

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• Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, but I don’t mind that. It’s the only time short feed content is acceptable for me.

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• MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Most of them are promoting their OF

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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve watched of one clip of that “NPC girlfriend” or whatever. Now the recommendation is all that and softcore porn. Haven’t watched porn on YouTube, that I remember. Maybe it’s because I turned off all tracking I could it just goes with age and gender or something.

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• xpinchx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mines all guns and motorcycles lol.

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• solarbabies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t actively used Facebook since I was in high school, and recently scrolling through my feed it’s not even softcore it’s straight up p*rn!

  example (NSFW obviously)

  I keep hiding these posts & they don’t stop appearing… I wish I could tell Facebook I’m not a perpetually online horny teenager anymore. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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• klemptor@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mine are mostly about nail art techniques and skincare reviews in French.

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• Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  IT’S NOT CORN! IT’S CALLED A THIRST TRAP I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW, UNEDUCATED PIG! </ sarcasm> (just to be sure)

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Doesn’t happen to me on YT but on Facebook with suggested pages but only for a brief while…

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• linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All magnets and “chefs” over here

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• specterspectre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The funny part is that sometimes I play this little game to see how many videos it takes to fully pornify my home page and it doesn’t work if you want it to be like that.

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mine is standup comedy, quick videos on how to use modern weapons, quick videos on how to use medieval weapons, FPS gamers doing crazy moves, and those guys who make love action shorts about video games.

  My advice is stop giving thumbs up to the softcore porn.

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t generally use YouTube since I find it more frustrating than enjoyable or useful, but I occasionally follow links that look interesting. I had never paid attention to “shorts” except they appeared extra annoying the one time I tried.

  Sure enough, mine are similar. Oh well, I’ll continue ignoring them as mostly annoying

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I get the “Fun fact!” guy, that sorta fat dude who apparently has a forge and a farm and runs a DnD campaign…? that one dude that critiques crap tool reviews and ends every video with “There you go!” and a channel that…over-explains the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers?

  I don’t get any tit bait which means I’ve either done something wrong or done something right.

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• XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This post needs a [META] tag

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• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With shorts, yes. I don’t really watch shorts tho. Their suggestions for horizontal videos are mostly news, cars, robots, and woodworking.

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• FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No same I think it got extremely much over the last 1/5 Months

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• rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My facebook reels are worse than that - endless girls shaken their boobs and ass at me. Most of them look extremely fake and enhanced with AI to make everything bigger. Often there will be a split second scene in the clip (too short to be caught be the censorship system?) of something pornographic. Seems like most of the girls have an Onlyfans.

  I don't watch porn or browse thirst traps on instagram or anything. It's nuts.

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  • Gingernate@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But you sure watch them FB reels hahahahahaha

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• ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The algorithm force feeds you what you want to see… whether you know it or not

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  • Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Judging purely from what you’ve already clicked on.

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    • petersr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And how long you watched

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• wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is this that family friendly platform I keep hearing about?

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• No1@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are you logged in?

  Ask yourself why, then log out.

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• gunpachi@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  From the image, I have seen 3 of them on my youtube homepage.

  It’s such a distraction while you are browsing for videos… Recently I have been trying this extension to block off shorts. I think it works for the most part.

  Hope this helps someone.

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