Submitted 18 hours ago by Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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It’s YouTube music, which is showing popular “podcasts” on its explore page. Must be just because it’s popular because nothing in my algo on either youtube or YouTube music would suggest this shit.
This podcast recommendation nonsense is in Spotify too.
I’ve never listened to a podcast from Spotify and it’s impossible to turn off the suggestions.
I’m thinking of switching to Deezer as I think they are a pure music service.
There’s music in your incel propaganda app
Get Tidal or Quobuz or Bandcamp
Tidal used to be the only good music streaming app. Now it is being flooded with AI music in every radio and suggested playlist. Their integrity towards artists didn’t last long.
Hey that’s that guy who can’t open an olive jar!
which did you choose?
I started watching a lot of home-improvement type videos on YouTube, and all the ads now assume my dick is horribly bent and doesn’t work, and that I uncontrollably shit and piss myself.
It’s so pervasive I can’t even watch YouTube on my living room TV with my young kids around because I would have to explain way too much to them.
A few years back I dived in to men’s mental health on youtube. My husband and I were in a rough patch and I just wanted to see some content created by men to maybe reach/understand him better.
the aglo went… bananas. I couldnt believe how fast shit went to a scary and innapropriate place. Nothinh was helpful in tje end.
Don’t tolerate ads
I also watch a lot of home improvement videos on YouTube, and I’ve never seen one of these ads that you speak of. I think there may be some sort of cross-watching or other things going on in your life that you are either unaware of or unwilling to admit on the internet…
Degoogle time.
Yarrr!
YouTube algorithm tries really hard to make me far right every few months. It suddenly starts recommending me fox news and “progressives destroyed in a debate” type shit videos. Usually lasts about a day.
I bet somebody is paying for that shit to pop into your feed.
lots of the religious right think that if you just see it, you’re going to agree and like, you know, become one of them. Which is funny because I find those kinds of content repulsive.
(Clint’s Reptiles, though? oh yeah. dude’s a legend.)
Sad thing is it works on a lot of naive young people.
That slop doesn’t work on us, but there are an alarming number of people who see content and just agree with it. No critical thinking whatsoever. I used to think that was just the Boomers and maybe some jaded Gen X folk; but the mass-dependency on generative AI showed me that Gen Z and Millenials are just as susceptible.
Or you’ll fall for the bait, hatewatch and comment, which will help boost the video
The religious zealots would HATE Clint, because he has out his rational mind and scientific literature explanation of the universe before what the Bible says
Weird. Youtube doesn’t do that to me. It is insistant however that I need to watch AI made videos about why linux is better than linux.
No, not a typo. The titles are usually along the lines of “Is Mint better than linux? Lets find out!”
Or
“Ubuntu just can’t compete with Linux!”
And the one time I accidently clicked one of these videos, it was the most obvious AI slop you’d ever seen.
Maybe it doesn’t suggest these right wing videos because they see how much Steven Colbert, and Last Week Tonight I watch.
Then there’s the weird videos. Not AI. Just…weird.
Like the video of a teenager dipping a pickle into a jar of tostitos queso, and repeatedly saying “pickles n cheese, pickles n cheese, pickles n cheese…” while making squishing noises with the cheese.
But since I clicked it, and watched 30 seconds of it, youtube now reccomends me videos from time to time of this guy doing random things with pickles.
I miss when it reccomended the guy with the duck. The duck was cool.
I feel like the middle-aged guy that I am, because it keeps suggesting lawncare, forging (“can I melt and cast himilayan salt rocks?” He did, it was fantastic), silly engineering (“I’m going to see if I can 3d print a rifle that will make a nerf dart break the speed of sound…”), dnd (I don’t even play dnd, and i still enjoy the videos), and Jon Stewart. And… a weird mix of civil rights people showing bad behavior of police, and police supporter showing bad behavior of people (honestly both are entertaining, because police are awful and so are people).
But it doesn’t even try for that right-wing bullshit.
i just refresh the page, and keep clicking on videos in my niche to get rid of it. im never logged in though, youtube is liking trying to capture some people that are browsing, and hook them in. people that are logged in have thier feeds curated to them that can ignore right wing videos.
Mine does the same with the left and feminism. Which is fine. The only time it’s gotten sketchy is after my deep dive into the manosphere and their birth rate decline stuff.
it’s just rage bait. I guess nazis get “woke” videos, or whatever they consider they other side. goog only cares about money. If they would want to convert you they would show only a bit more conservative and slowly get to the far side. Showing the total opposite hardly convinces anyone, basically the viewer would have to accept that all their previous believes were false, it rarely happens.
I guess I should be proud YT knows better than to try that with me?
That guy is probably as incel as Trump is common men’s ally. And the images of women are carefully chosen to stoke the sexual frustration that the incels are incapable of resolving without resorting to violence.
Do you know what Incel even means? Trump is definitely not a incel.
That’s not what he said at all. Go back and reread that sentence. He said that person, is as much of an incel. As Trump, is a common man.
If you’re ok with a little piracy, this exists: f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dd3boh.outertune
And then you can also buy your favorite albums/songs on bandcamp to actually support the artists!
Just pirate your music. It’s more ethical than giving money to Google or Spotify. If you want to support some musicians, buying a single piece of merch probably makes them more money than a lifetime of listening to them on a streaming service.
Money isnt that relevant directly, streaming is good for optics, you get a lot of streams you are more likely to get live shows and have your music pushed out to others that will go there? It’s good for discoverability and credibility.
Youtube is unironically, completely pandering to the far right. You can open a completely fresh account, look at absolutely anything, and your recs will have right wing slop. People debate whether this was always intentional or just becuase it generates engagement, but imo it’s an intentional psyop because google is the devil
Don’t Be Evil (as possible)
I figure its intentional because Google’s executives know right-wing chuds and their politicians will always push corporate-friendly and ultrarich-friendly legislation like tax cuts, deregulation, and defanged government institutions.
But I’m in agreement that it’s likely done with glee by YouTube’s team, who seem as happy to promote right-wing chuds as they do to stamp out left-wing voices from the feed.
Example: I sometimes search for videos I’ve seen from subscriptions, and using the exact title of the video and the creator I still have to wade through three or four pages of search results with far different titles - scrolling past heaps of ideologically-opposite results as I go - to finally find the real video. That’s no mistake, thats an intentional finger on the scale to hide leftist voices.
My assumption is the bias is unintentional, at least partially, and just the priorities of recommendations is weighed heavily to encourage engagement above all else, and stoking fear and anger drives engagement. Also the distribution of content could be a factor. On the right, it seems like everyone is trying to get in on the grift of advertising elk meat or trump coin to exploit their viewers, meanwhile high quality journalism and news is under funded. For every Climate Town or A More Perfect Union, there’s tens or hundreds of right wing fearmongering videos.
wow that thumbnail is disgusting. 10 fucking hours of this garbage!? and this is “popular” content… which supposedly means people actually watch this.
Quick callout to all the people who nodded along to stuff like this for the last 3 years; then whine about marginalized folks being “so political” about ongoing genocides. </3
10 hours of that is fucking nuts. Also claiming that as dating advice is fucking hilarious.
Lol is that choad wearing a Templar tunic? That is hilarious
Literal white knight.
Much like their knightly standing, it’s cheap, flimsy and bought instead of earned.
It’s why he looks like a 12 year old with a beard drawn on in markerpen
Qobuz, Tidal or Deezer, dude. All of them actually pay the artists for their streams. I’ve used two first and both of them are great for music.
Stop using streaming services and set sail
Yup. I bailed on my YouTube subscription this year and shifted to community radio and bandcamp.
Back in high school i knew this girl that went to band camp and let me just say she was freaky.
Man who hates a group of people vs group of people.
Or man vs car!
Man vs reeducation camp guards
Chad templar vs augmented bossoms
Andrew Wilson vs. 20 large breasts
Good thing is that you are using Android https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.maloy.muzza
Thanks, I’ll give it a try!
Came in to this thread not knowing what an Andrew Wilson was. Still don’t but, feel better about it.
He’s one of the Wilson brothers, the most famous of which was in Cast Away
Is Andrew Wilson that smarmy “you lick snizz” guy? The one who thinks he’s a more clever version of Trey Parker but he’s really just a shitty little weasel baby version of Steve Bannon?
That’s why I prefer storing my music locally. Soulseek is the answer
Am I the only one who stores music just as discrete files, stored in my filesystem, in folders? Don’t need any app for that.
I personally use Jellyfin because it means I can have a public-facing page with a login that I can access from any device with a web browser, including at work, without having to install software or use my VPN. I do organize everything meticulously on the backend, but it’s just way more convenient for portability.
YouTube music is the worst.
I entered “antifa playlist” into the search bar and got multiple ai generated full on nazi songs in my recommended.
How capitalism claims to work: provide consumer with what they want
How capitalism actually works: provide consumer with what I want
It does provide the consumer what they want. It’s just that YouTube is in the business of selling ads, and their consumers are the ad companies, not the viewers.
Wtf with the pic ? How dumb must you be to take it seriously, right ? What do you think ?
That’s how all the thumbnails work now. Even HCR started a lighter version of it post Trump win, and she was very basic, straight up content prior.
Thumbnails/algorithm have killed hobby channels, like woodworking and sewing, all of it.
We need an “anti” algorithm slam on YT to fix it, but I doubt there are enough creators/makers/whatevers willing to engage such an operation en masse. Journalism/podcasts have always leaned on the present state of the algorithm.
The other issue is the thumbnails exist as they do due to the predominance of phone users over laptops/desktops. It’s a size thing. The thumbnail is designed for small phone screen reading.
Slop thumbnails for slop content
The dude is serious and focused. The girl is ready to receive a load on her face. The second girl, I’m pretty sure, I saw on r/roastme.
Does that say it’s a 10 hour video?!
Yes, idk who can listen to this for ten hours and whether they have any brain cells before or after.
It’s not an accident.
It’s probably not a conspiracy.
If seeing that so much as pauses your scrolling, the algo counts that as “engagement,” and that gets modeled into your profile for all of time. That’s all it cares about, not incel stuff specifically… though rage bait happens to work very well, which is how these jerks make a living.
You might fix it with a new account from a different IP.
I doubt it is a conspiracy. The reality is that hate towards women is trending among some men.
You’re in the explore tab and looking at a “popular” list. This is like looking at a top 50 list and being upset you don’t like the top 5 songs.
The top 50 list is actually why I was there, I like to check it occasionally as I do like pop and some mainstream hip hop. Previously this popular section was just some hip hop podcasts/ videos that I ignored, but at least it was somewhat based on my music so it’s not purely top 50 on the app, idk why it threw this one at me.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 33 minutes ago
Speaking of propaganda, I’ve been getting pro ICE propaganda on the Plex service from a group called “American Sovereignty”. Blatantly racist ads.