It’s YouTube music, which is showing popular “podcasts” on its explore page. Must be just because it’s popular because nothing in my algo on either youtube or YouTube music would suggest this shit.

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    YouTube algorithm tries really hard to make me far right every few months. It suddenly starts recommending me fox news and “progressives destroyed in a debate” type shit videos. Usually lasts about a day.

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      I bet somebody is paying for that shit to pop into your feed.

      lots of the religious right think that if you just see it, you’re going to agree and like, you know, become one of them. Which is funny because I find those kinds of content repulsive.

      (Clint’s Reptiles, though? oh yeah. dude’s a legend.)

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            I practically live by the “don’t recommend” options, although recently I’ve started getting “block this video/channel”, which is peculiar.

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        The religious zealots would HATE Clint, because he has out his rational mind and scientific literature explanation of the universe before what the Bible says

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          I mean, I wasn’t trying to suggest they don’t.

          Just that his YT channel is alway good for a timeline cleanse.

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      Weird. Youtube doesn’t do that to me. It is insistant however that I need to watch AI made videos about why linux is better than linux.

      No, not a typo. The titles are usually along the lines of “Is Mint better than linux? Lets find out!”

      Or

      “Ubuntu just can’t compete with Linux!”

      And the one time I accidently clicked one of these videos, it was the most obvious AI slop you’d ever seen.

      Maybe it doesn’t suggest these right wing videos because they see how much Steven Colbert, and Last Week Tonight I watch.

      Then there’s the weird videos. Not AI. Just…weird.

      Like the video of a teenager dipping a pickle into a jar of tostitos queso, and repeatedly saying “pickles n cheese, pickles n cheese, pickles n cheese…” while making squishing noises with the cheese.

      But since I clicked it, and watched 30 seconds of it, youtube now reccomends me videos from time to time of this guy doing random things with pickles.

      I miss when it reccomended the guy with the duck. The duck was cool.

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      Mine does the same with the left and feminism. Which is fine. The only time it’s gotten sketchy is after my deep dive into the manosphere and their birth rate decline stuff.

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      it’s just rage bait. I guess nazis get “woke” videos, or whatever they consider the other side. goog only cares about money. If they would want to convert you they would show only a bit more conservative each time and slowly get to the far side. Showing the total opposite hardly convinces anyone, basically the viewer would have to accept that all their previous believes were false, it rarely happens.