“Want us to stop bombarding you with psychic damage? Hand over data on your every move, now. Why yes we will sell it, no you don’t get a cut of the profit.”
Youtubes new account recommendations are disturbing. It’s not that they want your data its just that the default behaviour is already warped
“The algorithm is nonpolitical” said by a bunch of performatively-numbed groypers that don’t see anything political about the horrid shit the default setting pushes.
same but for those pet food ads that use recordings of actual pets eating food. i hate ASMR style content so much, everytime these commercials with their animal eating noises come on i freak out.
ASMR gives me the deepest of heebie-jeebies, it’s fascinating to me that anyone likes those noises
The only ASMR I can stand is the sound of food cooking/sizzling, only because it triggers an appetite for me.
Shit like whispering, fingernails clacking on hard surfaces, or plastic bags being crinkled… no thanks.
What about mechanical keyboard asmr?
it’s not nails on a chalkboard, but I don’t love it
how about you?
Its one of my two favourite sounds the other being crunchy cat luna crunching. All other asmr is completely untenable
Me when cat crunching
Me when human crunching
Ultimately disturbingI think they definitely prey upon the “negative engagement is still engagement” phenomenon. If they could get away with it they’d be bombarding children with violent and pornographic content just to drive up the numbers. Who cares if you traumatized a person, they still saw the ads! More ads! Ads ads ads. Looking forward to future car commercials where a Mr. Beast type runs over a cyclist and saying “did EYE do that?” while making soy face and pointing at his eye.
Ugh, YouTube keeps thinking I want to watch videos about an owl covered in shit and piss.
Owl eats a can of beans and farts on everyone!!!
Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
I wouldn’t know. I actively seek out stuff on parasites and the like. Then again, I wanted to be an entomologist in the past.
for like the last year or two, no matter what i youtube search, if i scroll down hard enough, i’ll get a few videos of like skin diseases and feet with very bad corns/calluses.
i have no idea what youtube is thinking…
i think they look nice
Sensationalism sells and the algorithm is intended to maximize sensationalism. It’s why those empty SEO faces are shoved at us with ALL CAPS declarations about SOMETHING DESTROYED.
I thought this was a bit thread at first and the picture was going to be of some landlords.
I’ve been reading this title all day as “gross pastries” and now I really want to eat a strudel. So thanks for that.
YT’s recommendation and search algorithm is really screwed up, it used to be much worse a few years ago. YT used to show dead bodies and other strange things when I was trying to just find some funny videos. I think it stopped recently, but what was that? And it also showed legit hentai and hardcore eroguro videos when I searched for something in Japanese or Chinese.
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