Why is youtube recommending conservative "talking points" to me?

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?

TwoGems,
@TwoGems@lemmy.world avatar

Because the algorithms favor alt right garbage heaps and the companies will never bother to fix them. Hence why we need some regulations.

winterayars,

Let’s be honest. The companies only really care about “engagement” and the Right is more than happy to provide that.

bownt,

you are a closet conservative. the algoritham has spoken.

CurlyWurlies4All,
@CurlyWurlies4All@prxs.site avatar

How YouTube became a perpetual Nazi machine

A55A,
@A55A@lemmy.ml avatar

Just use Odysee, the YouTube algorithm is fully cooked from millions of hours of pure crap being posted every day.

bobthened, (edited )

My interest are gaming, standup comedy, memes, react videos, metalurgy, machining, blacksmithing,

Because a lot of the type of guys who like seeing those stupid conservative videos also like many of the same things as you. Gaming^™ is well known to have a problem with the alt-right, react videos have a very similar structure to conservative “libs destroyed with fact and logic” types of videos, and finally a lot of conservatives like to think of themselves as an old fashioned man’s-man so they enjoy things like metalwork and other typical “manly” careers.

MooseBoys,

Pretty sure this is it - I see them as well but my interests are science education, gaming, and 3D printing.

lustyargonian,

I think such content gets most engagement. Dunking on leftist ideas brings right wingers celebrating and parroting the piece while pissed left wingers trying to explain why the argument doesn’t make sense.

OneNot,
@OneNot@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah. I never really watched shorts, but I recently started watching them and I get tons of right-wing/red-pill shit in there despite clicking on “dont recommend this channel” (or whatever it says) on like 50 of those types of channels.

ezmack,

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

Yeah it really wants me to watch Tim pool. Its like cmon guys I’m too old for that guys tastes. Tiktok will atleast take the hint

EtnaAtsume,

“Hi, I’m a guy in early thirties–”

Well there’s your answer.

RocksForBrains,

Conservative proganda is a highly coordinated and well-funded network. They pay for preference.

chakan2,
@chakan2@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not that so much as Howard Stern theory. The people that like that stuff, click on it and move on.

The people that hate that stuff hate it enough to interact with it… That means more time on the site, more ads, more revenue.

It’s just the hate algorithms… They’re lucrative.

donut4ever,

You’ve probably watched the other side quite often, so YouTube is recommending this for ya to enrage you and keep you engaged. Just good old rage bating

vd1n,

The devils algorithm.

GentlemenPreferBongs,

I’ve been vegetarian since 2009 and in the past 2-3 years I keep getting all kinds of bow hunting videos.

It’s particularly amusing when my plan was to watch an old episode of “The Golden Girls.”

They REALLY misread my demographic.

ScotinDub,

I used to get reasonable content as per my interests. Now after having a kid its just baby songs and bluey. I use smarttubenext on a firestick so at least I don’t get ads but it’s not great.

TheKingBee,
@TheKingBee@lemmy.world avatar

You need to train your algorithm.

When you hover over those videos there will be three dots in the lower right hand corner use either not interested or don’t recommend this channel to clear the right wing trash from your feed.

On videos you do like you need to do some engagement, watch complete videos, thumbs up (or down it doesn’t matter) and comment.

Do that for a few days and your feed should clear up.

ketcham1009,
@ketcham1009@lemmy.ml avatar

And make sure to turn off The setting that auto plays the videos in browser if you mouse over them (don’t remember the setting’s name). Hovering your mouse over it counts as you watching/playing the video if the setting is on.

xthedeerlordx,

your feed should clear up.

This works for like a few days, then inevitably the cycle begins again…

TheKingBee,
@TheKingBee@lemmy.world avatar

I’m a daily youtube user and this has been not been the case for me.

My feed, outside the occasional straggler, is pretty free of nonsense.

PerogiBoi,
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Those types of videos have the most engagement. YouTube is trying to show you whatever it thinks will keep you there longer.

Turns out conservative radicalization keeps people longer there. I’ve never googled or watched any Andrew Tate videos but my recommended has at least 3 videos front and center.

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