created by Somewhere-Plane on 26/01/2025 at 23:09 UTC
403 upvotes, 44 top-level comments (showing 25)
This has been happening to me more and more the past year or two and just again today. I get recommended a cool video about a random topic like video games, like say the title is "game developers: it's time to talk." Starts out strong, I like the way the guy talks and what he has to say. He starts talking about developers talking down to gamers, wonders why they'd say rude things in public about their audience, and wonders why they even feel emboldened enough to make public statements like that.
All of this is great food for thought and I'm really enjoying the video, but then, oh shit. Here comes the rug pull. All of a sudden halfway through now we're highlighting a game developor who makes a post basically saying "hey any minorities who want a job hmu too many old white people around lmao" and now the video is going on and on about how this is the worst thing ever and illegal and yadda yadda this and that. Bringing up Elon musk and defending him and everything.
Like, what the fucking fuck. I wanna explore more of why developers are alienated from their user bases rn and why were having massive flops and a huge disconnect in this industry. If I wanted to watch a video about whether or not it's ok to want to hire minorities specifically so you don't end up with all of your employees being straight white dudes, then I would watch that instead. What the fuck does that even have to do with the video topic go begin with??
This has been happening more and more and it's freaking me out that it's on purpose, and it makes me worried for other guys out there who might be more naive and get sucked into this redpilled bullshit. These groups of people are trying to cater and radicalize nerdy little dudes like me and it's freaking me out, and makes me sad for my fellow guys who don't know enough to know better.
So has anyone else been experiencing this? You see a cool video, you click on it, halfway through a good video all of a sudden you realize this dude is some redpilled "the blacks and gays are taking over" idiot? Legitimately starting to piss me off.
Rant over. And I'm not plugging the video. Do better YouTubers.
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Comment by Next_Firefighter7605 at 27/01/2025 at 00:43 UTC
61 upvotes, 4 direct replies
It even happens with recipe ones. I’m looking for a decent focaccia recipe I am not looking to have Catholicism shoved down my throat.
Comment by mongotongo at 27/01/2025 at 00:36 UTC
71 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Yeah and it's getting really old. I block every single one of their channels and youtube keeps recommending new ones. I am getting really sick of Joe Rogan popping up. I don't know how many channels that I have blocked because of him. You think they would get the hint.
Comment by Critical_Week1303 at 27/01/2025 at 02:17 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You see something as condescending as 'it's time to talk' from some YouTube dingdong you can pretty much guarantee they're a rightwing nutsack.
We're almost entirely university educated, many of us hold similar opinions about the homogeneity and the commodification of the industry. We aren't going to give any of you the time of day when you speak to us like that.
Comment by MoveYaFool at 27/01/2025 at 00:10 UTC
29 upvotes, 2 direct replies
yes youtubes algorithm is bias towards fascist ideals. I watched some videos on communist thought.
did I get more recommendations for that? no! it recommended peterson and other rightwing grifters
Comment by flacatakigomoki at 27/01/2025 at 00:05 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yeah this shit keeps happening to me, and it's been going on since I started using YouTube. Fuck those people.
Comment by _Ceaseless_Watcher_ at 27/01/2025 at 07:13 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
If you're looking for good videogame industry related content, I can recommend the channel Jim Sterling. They've been doing this for well over a decade and actually amanged to predict a lot of things happening in the industry.
Comment by [deleted] at 27/01/2025 at 04:01 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by Shinoobie at 27/01/2025 at 12:49 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
YouTube is going to provide you with things you (and people like you) find engaging... Not necessarily things you find positive and enjoyable. If you hate the Jonas Brothers you'll get content talking about them, positive or negative, because you're reacting to it.
Because of this dynamic, controversial figures or topics get boosted. Because they get boosted, even seemingly unrelated content that references that stuff gets boosted too.
Comment by ericwbolin at 27/01/2025 at 00:16 UTC
7 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Cut off YouTube.
Producers of content know that stuff gets views in this day and age, so they're going to do what it takes to get those views. With so many other legitimate sources of entertainment, is YT not an easy thing to remove?
Comment by UrsaMaln22 at 27/01/2025 at 13:06 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
> I wanna explore more of why developers are alienated from their user bases rn and why were having massive flops and a huge disconnect in this industry.
Do you? Really? Because I don't see any desire to 'explore' anywhere in your post. I see a desire to sit back and have someone else explain to you.
There's a real problem in the media at the moment. Genuine, well argued and researched material takes time and money to make, and so ends up behind a pay wall. Lazy, ideological nonsense that takes no research at all is free at the point of use. They don't have to worry about being paid - the money comes from advertising or funding bodies or whoever is happy for them to push this stuff.
If your research never goes any further than "I want someone on YouTube to explain it to me like I'm a child", then that's all you're going to get.
Comment by naivelySwallow at 27/01/2025 at 08:55 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
youtube has always showed more right wing content. people on reddit seem to forget your average american is right wing. no not the average voter, the average person. you live in a right wing country, as it always has been. instead of wanting to create an artificially manufactured echo chamber, try watching that content and critiquing the inaccuracies of it, so when being confronted by the inevitable right wing person offline, you’re able to counter their talking points and change a perspective.
Comment by BigDigger324 at 27/01/2025 at 12:07 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Keep in mind that these platforms run billions of experiments per day on what gets a user to click. The thumbnail, the feed, the topic headline and even where that headline cuts off to intrigue you. It’s a Skinner box multiplied by billions….we click on stuff that pisses is off.
Comment by Unable_Apartment_613 at 27/01/2025 at 15:05 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Hiding politics behind pop culture and sports commentary has been very good for the right in the US. If "politics are downstream of culture" they excel at poisoning upstream.
Comment by kittehmummy at 27/01/2025 at 16:30 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's absolutely deliberate, because it works. It's horrifying but it works.
Try watching left wing news for a while, or at least let them run while you're doing something else. Try to train the algorithm that you want video games AND lefty.
Comment by Notsonewguy7 at 27/01/2025 at 23:42 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Omg. I just want to watch history videos and sometimes science videos yet I'm constantly getting bombarded with Nazi s*** and Relationship nonsense.
Comment by molestingstrawberrys at 27/01/2025 at 03:20 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Makes you feel any better I keep getting blue pill shit in my feed
I guess YouTube just hates everyone
Comment by No-Bee4589 at 27/01/2025 at 04:42 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yeah I'm getting fed more and more garbage. I think it is time to just delete or since you can't actually delete YouTube disable it and not look back.
Comment by hannibal_morgan at 27/01/2025 at 06:16 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
If you enjoy listening to people share their opinions and beliefs, searching a topic that you're interested and then adding "critique" would give you varying opinions on that topic, usually from actual educated people with degrees in that subject. I don't promote that over going to school and getting a paid education, but it's worth acknowledging that you can learn about the same topics that schools teach for free, it just won't be structured in the way an educational institute would structure it, meaning it may take longer to learn that information without that structure and guidance
Comment by Masseyrati80 at 27/01/2025 at 11:53 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's so common a comedian from my country made some parodies about them. He slammed together all the hallmarks of a very specific style: one where a juiced-up dude is "interviewing" a juiced-up ex convict, talking about showing no fear, "respect" etc. etc., complete with references to how tough men, on top of everything else, can eat hotter chili sauce than lesser individuals for some reason.
It wouldn't be as annoying if it weren't for the algorithm that follows each watched clip by adding twelve recommendations, some more extreme than the previous. Opening the rabbit hole just for watching one out of curiosity. And they'll stick like heck, too! Not clicking makes them go away, but very, very, very slowly as you keep watching other genres.
Comment by KreedKafer33 at 27/01/2025 at 12:30 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The Politics Drive-by is a huge problem in online discussions. It's such an easy recipe for engagement farming that people are incentivized to do it on YouTube and Reddit.
This is hardly unique to the redpill brigade either. It's super obnoxious to look for a video essay about an old western "Was Shane dying at the end?" Only for the self-important tosser to filibuster the video for 10 minutes so he can winge about gun control while snarkily laughing as if to say "Gotcha, CHUD."
Let's shout out YouTube creators who don't do this.
I'll start: Indestructoboy Laura Fryer B-Tier Mutineer
Comment by just_had_to_speak_up at 27/01/2025 at 16:11 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Literally never had this happen. I watch recommendations all the time and have yet to have that kind of crap fed to me.
Must be something different about our viewing habits.
Comment by Fyrsiel at 27/01/2025 at 16:36 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yeah, anytime I see a video from a new YouTuber I haven't watched before, I go to their YouTube page first to see what other kind of videos they make. If there's anything complaining about "politics in video games" or nonsense like that, I bail. You gotta screen 'em first, unfortunately.
Comment by PuzzleheadedSet2545 at 27/01/2025 at 17:50 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
ALL THE TIME. Youtube still believes I would really enjoy Jordan Peterson's drivel. Kermit the frog sounding mfer
Comment by Autopsyyturvy at 27/01/2025 at 18:12 UTC*
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yup it's horrible, I follow more LGBTQIA people and creators of colour and women creators and while they aren't immune to this shit there's definitely less likelihood of it
Also anyone involved in Nebula is unlikely to be red pill so I reccomend checking them out, some of them are:
Foreign man in a foreign land, Fd signifier, Kat Blaque, Cass Eris