[CW: Gross parasites] Do you think YouTube shows you gross shit on purpose to get you to give them more data?
"Want us to stop bombarding you with psychic damage? Hand over data on your every move, now. Why yes we will sell it, no you don't get a cut of the profit."
"The algorithm is nonpolitical" said by a bunch of performatively-numbed groypers that don't see anything political about the horrid shit the default setting pushes.
same but for those pet food ads that use recordings of actual pets eating food. i hate ASMR style content so much, everytime these commercials with their animal eating noises come on i freak out.
I think they definitely prey upon the "negative engagement is still engagement" phenomenon. If they could get away with it they'd be bombarding children with violent and pornographic content just to drive up the numbers. Who cares if you traumatized a person, they still saw the ads! More ads! Ads ads ads. Looking forward to future car commercials where a Mr. Beast type runs over a cyclist and saying "did EYE do that?" while making soy face and pointing at his eye.
Sensationalism sells and the algorithm is intended to maximize sensationalism. It's why those empty SEO faces are shoved at us with ALL CAPS declarations about SOMETHING DESTROYED.
for like the last year or two, no matter what i youtube search, if i scroll down hard enough, i'll get a few videos of like skin diseases and feet with very bad corns/calluses.
YT's recommendation and search algorithm is really screwed up, it used to be much worse a few years ago. YT used to show dead bodies and other strange things when I was trying to just find some funny videos. I think it stopped recently, but what was that? And it also showed legit hentai and hardcore eroguro videos when I searched for something in Japanese or Chinese.