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It’s getting very difficult to find good content on Youtube. Over the last 5 years or so I have been using my account to experiment on how you can train the algorithm to act & I have essentially broken my account be being contradictory at every turn. The result has been youtube only recommending exactly what I have been looking at over the last few minutes, or things from the years before I started actively fucking with it. So now I can’t find things unless I already know they exist. On top of the already annoying shenanigins the service has been pulling on its own to stifle the types of creators I like it’s made my most common background noise much harder to discover. The other day, for the first time in a very long time, it suggested a video game review channel that was reviewing all the games people reviewed from a decade ago, but this time with a female host. It was like some kind of weird, gender swapped, deja vu. Youtube has been around long enough that apparently we can start retreading all the old subjects & he kids won’t know any better because nobody their age knows who the fuck Jontron is. The creators I used to enjoy have grown up & moved on, while I continue to do what I’ve always done. Making comics & offering bonus content on Patreon (other services are available).
Maybe it’s just me having a “things used to be better in the old days” moment. I know, objectively that things weren’t better in the strictest sense. It was just terrible in a way that I was more inclined to resonate with. Seeing a random conspiracy theory video wasn’t the worst thing in the world & led to a lot of interesting rabbit holes to explore. That doesn’t happen nearly as much now. I’m not sure how much of that is from youtube changing or my meddling. Either way I almost feel like I need to start a fresh account just to see what a fresh start on youtube is like now, compared to when I started watching it.