For me I got recommended a video “How to pronounce COCK in British English” - and I didn’t actually watch any learning english related video before and never watched any videos on that channel - It was just so weird how it appeared in my recommended…
I got bombarded with Minecraft videos for months despite hitting not interested and resorting to blocking the entire channels.
Never played Minecraft or shown any interest in it in my life. My best guess is I watched a few rimworld videos which is a very different type of game.
YouTube’s algorithm is weirdly prone to fixation, and quite hard to train out of habits.
My bane is ASMR videos. I watched a couple of vids on physiotherapy a few years back and that’s it. The ASMR crowd had been all through the comments and I guess that was enough for the algorithm to make the link. Now it won’t let go no matter how many times I hit “not interested”.
I refuse to look up anything food related in case I end up with mukbang all through my feed.
Don’t Google that, by the way. You’re better off ignorant.
Try searching your YouTube watch history for those videos and removing them. That seems to actually make the algorithm pretend you never saw them, and so it doesn’t consider them in future recommendations (at least, in my experience).
YouTube appears to just be pushing random videos with almost no views regardless of your interests. I try my best to curate my subscriptions and watch history and I still will get recommendations for “Part 72” of a playthrough of a game that isn’t even a genre I have a history of playing. They’re just pushing garbage at this point.
An otomatone cover of an Evanescence song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmxLja-DRIw
I didn’t even know what an otomatone was before watching that video, and I have no idea why youtube recommended it to me as this isn’t exactly my favorite music genre, but I have to admit that it is kinda cool nonetheless.
The second weirdest thing youtube did was recommend my own videos to me, like “here, watch your own sh*t again you nerd!” … I feel like there should be some sort of programming that prevents this useless behaviour. That algorythm is bonkers sometimes.
That was an amazing cover. Lol
The Hoof GP. I have no idea why he was recommended to me, I don’t watch pimple popper videos or anything like that.
But the algorithm wasn’t wrong…. I now watch clips of a Scotsman trimming cow hooves. Along side lockpicking lawyer, restoration videos, marble races (go Mellow Yellow) and kitboga.
Videos with titles in Arabic and fewer than 200 views.
I got a 9 year old video with 20M views of a old man giving life advise in my recommened over en over again. After so many days of having this video glued in place in my recomended I watched it. The commends are all very recent and all talking about why Youtube recommened this video.
Who is this guy, did he hack the Youtube algorithm?
trains. I watched a few videos on train hopping in europe (to see what the architecture looked like from a non-tourist view) & now I get recommendations for watching people adjust rails, repair train parts, dvd rips of train enthusiast documentaries, etc. super weird but some are sort of interesting.
a eugenia cooney video out of the blue
‘Why ad block detection is bad for youtube’. (Ad blocker was working fine, no ads seen ;) )
Got recommended Pete playing risk in a world tournament. No idea why but it was one of those 2 hour videos you don’t expect to finish and I watched the whole thing and am now hooked.
Years ago, I’m talking early doors YouTube, watched a video and then watched a couple more. Then I was watching videos of a man in sets of specific boots stepping on things. Same dude had videos of him in too tight moth eaten sweaters
Don’t know how they were connected, but I learned too much that day. Never watched more that a video in a row since then.
It gets recommended to me every so often. But the name makes it almost impossible to search for. It’s like a weird occasional blessing.
Don’t know why but this!
