Hi, I am a guy in early thirties with a wife and two kids and whenever I go on youtube it always suggests conservative things like guys dunking on women, ben shapiro reacting to some bullshit, joe rogan, all the works. I almost never allow it to go to that type of video and when I do it is either by accident or by curiosity. My interest are gaming, standup comedy, memes, react videos, metalurgy, machining, blacksmithing, with occasional songs and videos about funny bullshit and I am not from america and I consider myself pretty liberal if I had to put it into terms used in america. But european liberal, so by american standards a socialist. Why does it recommend this shit to me, is this some kind of vector for radicalization of guys in my category? Do you have similar experience?

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      There’s a difference between the recommendations for normal videos and shorts, I’d bet OP is looking at shorts.

      In the normal feed YouTube knows about my hobbies, interests and serves decent recommendations that usually interest me.

      The rare times I look at shorts it starts with comedians, goes to ass&tits, and then out come the crazy right-wingers.