I promise, this video belongs here

This guy hacked the algorithm just to tell us how the algorithm sucks. He's a genius.

I want YouTube to recognize that just because I engage with travel content, it doesn’t mean I no longer want to see video essays and cooking videos. It’s like the algorithm thinks you can’t have more than one interest at the same time.

I'm definitely experiencing this. It also seems like youtube's "memory" is getting bad; I have watched a large variety of content, predominately targeted towards young people. Recently, though, I've been watching a few embroidery and sewing videos. Youtube seems to have forgotten everything about me and mistaken me for an elderly lady! a few videos out of the ordinary and know I can't find anything else I'm in to. And I'm getting ads for makeup that look good on wrinkly skin (so old people), even though I'm a teenager!

My biggest beef right now is keeping the videos or programs I've watched reposted WITHOUT the red line under them to show I've already watched them !!! If it's within the last month I can usually remember I've watched them. I find it extremely frustrating and a waste of my time !!! As for watching YOUR video, I specifically watched it in hopes you would be a legit source of information and was not disappointed. I am 70 years old, consider myself computer literate, and watch a lot of videos on new trends, subject matter, and interest of the younger people to help me understand their generational culture and give me a better understanding of conversations I have with neighbor kids, great grand nephews/nieces, etc. I realize my age group isn't your target range, but your posts do help tremendously in understanding younger minds, their slang, abbreviations, etc. Thanks so much.

One of my main issues with YouTube more recently is that I'm scared to click on a random video that interests me, because then it will be all I'm recommended for weeks.

Actually, I'm frustrated with YouTube more for the opposite reason... it is VERY difficult to break out of any sort of echo chamber you've knowingly or unknowingly created for yourself.

I have no idea why this was recommended but I agree. The search not letting me strictly search the subject is honestly infuriating and has our family thinking of cancel our YouTube premium plan. YouTube has been getting worse since around 2017, I remember they changed the home page and the way subscriptions work and how they show content. I am super sad, wish things would get back to the way they were when YouTube was in its earlier years

This is only getting worse over time too. I feel like especially lately I've been spending more time scrolling on YT than watching videos. Getting the same recommendations, seeing things I've already watched (but without showing it??), and lately getting a lot of videos with a max of 100 views with bad quality content. I enjoy the low-stakes variety that comes with YT, I don't really like watching shows or movies as much. Not sure what to do at this point. (yes I searched this video cuz it was getting that bad and to make sure im not crazy)

Explains why YouTube has felt so bland to me lately. I open it, see a bunch of content I don’t really care about, and give up. It feels like a chore to watch YouTube now more than ever. Not to even mention the terrible search function. All these content platforms keep sterilizing themselves to be more marketable and it’s ruining them. On the bright side, this social media apocalypse is making me want to pick up a book instead for once.

Personally the worst aspect of it for me is that sometimes you’ll find one of these random videos interesting so you watch that one video and then suddenly for ages the algorithm thinks that niche is your favourite thing and will fill your entire page with similar videos even if you never click on them and aren’t still interested in the subjects or content types

I watch YT videos every day for hours and YES, this is a huge, annoying problem! As someone else said, I have to actively search, HARD, for content I have been watching for years. Just because someone watches one video on a new topic or from a new creator, DOES NOT MEAN THAT'S ALL THEY WANT TO WATCH GOING FORWARD FOREVER. UGH! Even though I am a big YT watcher and don't even have a Tiktok account, I've never even written a comment. This time I was compelled.

Thank you so much for explaining this - I keep hitting „do not recommend“ on certain channels or „not interested“ when the video deals with a specific content I do not care for and yet, this action seems to have the opposite effect. There‘s only so many „restocking videos“ you need to watch in your existense as a Marine to start despairing about certain carriers of various diseases. I don‘t care how someone else cleans their bathroom, but it‘s still almost the only thing on my front page. The worst offender must have been a video a few days ago, where a young woman was trying to decide how to part her hair.

I completely agree. YouTube has become constraining and instead of feeling free to explore content I’m actually interested in, I’m seeing only a small selection of what YouTube thinks I like. Very annoying.

I'm so tired of apps trying to be like other apps. I don't want shorts from YouTube. I want YouTube from YouTube, if I want TikTok then I want TikTok. Keeping it separately encourages me to use each app MORE because they're DIFFERENT. I don't want to go everywhere and see the same thing. I'm glad I came across this video, this makes so much sense now.

I actually searched why Youtube is getting boring and I got your video, whatever points you mentioned are absolutely relatable and correct!

Just got this pushed today. Never heard of you, but it did answer a question of "why is youtube burying the stuff I want and flooding me with crap?" I will now probably get flooded with other random crap I don't want.

I knew I wasn't crazy and finding something interesting in YouTube was being a massive struggle

I have literally never seen this man before in my life but he's spitting straight fire facts.

It's videos like this that makes me happy YouTube offers me random videos from people I have never heard of before.

I love video essays, multi hour long videos, outlandish movie and show theories, but I haven't been getting any of those. No video essays, longest videos cap at 22 minutes, and no theories. You are the first video in weeks that actually caught my interest and held my attention the entire video, and I am so greatful! Glad I'm not crazy, and glad I found you