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I had been using YouTube for years without being presented rightwing propaganda in my suggestions. I mostly just watched strategy gaming, history, technology channels and some peculiar travelling blogs. And my suggested was just mostly those things.

Then one day I used my YouTube account to cast kid shows for my niece for the first time. After that I was suggested more kid shows which didn't interest me personally, but I also started getting suggested cat videos, which I obviously clicked. And the week after that half my suggested feed was rightwing misogynist/racist/culture war misinformation, and it took a lot of "do not recommend channel" to clean it up again.

So now I believe that there is a concerted effort by some malicious actors to train Google's algorithm to assume that if someone is interested in cat videos, that they would then also be open to becoming a misogynist racist prick.

Mine is full of big titty adults; I don't know what y'all are doing wrong.

this is why snapchats clone is funnier

"Clock App" = TikTok.

Took me a minute, not gonna lie.

If you think you’re not seeing propaganda, you are not seeing the propaganda.

I loved that guy, politician I think, who said "This app is disgusting. It's just full of nearly naked young girls!" and everyone was like my dude, it's an algorithm, that's on you.

Okay but YouTube suggested videos are genuinely way worse than they used to be. I can't even fall down rabbit holes anymore. Trying to "curate" the algorithm is like swimming against the current. I can try and try to get YouTube to recommend me live music, but even when I manage to find something, the next video is going to be either a video I already watched yesterday or Rick Beato's daily rant about the top 40. Every time.

I used to be able to spend hours just browsing, drifting from topic to topic. Now it's like they're trying to trap me in a loop of their most profitable videos

Hahahaha I remember when TicTok was newish a friend of mine (who never once actually used TikTok) boomerly complained that it was "just underage girls twerking".

He then proceeded to get roasted to hell and back the rest of the night, because Tiktock was famous for its algorithm showing you what you want to see. One boomer lying whine, and then 4 hours of being on blast and forever's worth of random inside jokes on him.

Probably at the point they went to the app store, searched TikTok, and clicked "install".

i like platforms where i can curate what i see

Is that an interrobang‽

I do miss tiktok sometimes, but i had to delete it because I think i broke my algo somehow, it started showing me things i had absolutely no intrest in to the point of it being unusable... I'd love if i could get RSS feeds of tiktok pages so i could still follow my friends tho

YT basically just sends me comedy sketches and bad sci-fi shorts. Lemmy basically sends me memes about popular culture and science... And that's it, those are the feeds that exist, right?

Did what go wrong?

Never used TikTok (which is what I assume "TT" means). Don't have a YouTube account, use it very little anyway.

So what's the question again?

holy shit that's ~~boomer~~ zoomer as fuck

If you give Abbie Richards a watch/read, she'll educate you on how easy it is for TikTok to become a right-wing misinformation playground.