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   pawlicker (pawlicker@outpoa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 10:30:53 JST pawlicker
   I usually don't effortpost on here but I might as well post why I quit taking YouTube as seriously. YouTube is not only rigged for the top dogs and ecelebs, to the point where it's nearly impossible to get noticed anymore unless you somehow fluke into getting one video from 5-10 years ago boosted by "the algorithm", but they also manipulate search results.
   
   Try to find Alex Jones memes (that were clearly mocking his show or using his rants as sample material) and you'll see "approved" media sources giving you their opinion about how because he called something wrong he must be sued into oblivion and his life ruined until he is killing himself and his kids are brainwashed. Which is a shame because comedy gold like vid related got buried by the humorless Google employees who want you to live in a world where the only user generated content are fake as shit restoration videos from Vietnam, clickbait, and unfunny "wow zoom face" douchetubers with soyface thumbnails, or worse TikTok in general. Or where the only approved emotion is Twitter ragebait until you're popping pills to stay happy.
   
   The problem is, you simply cannot expect to even get noticed on YouTube anymore as long as you're not making whatever Susan Wojack and advertisers want you to make. Search results and your related section are rigged to shit, and I mean if you saw the Twitter file stuff (which was badly released btw), you likely know this is 100% on YouTube as well. Actually no, they say the quiet part out loud all the time.
   
   Old YouTube is dead, the funny videos are dead, and it's all now just a place for finding music and long ass "video essays" that sound like Patrick Bateman himself wrote them.
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     arcanicanis (arcanicanis@were.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 10:55:41 JST arcanicanis

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     YouTube is the new controlled cable television. YouTube intentionally laid the groundwork (implementing Content ID) to hopefully win over the media companies (which they have), by tilting it in their favor. There was also the opportune moment of the Las Vegas mass shooting incident that was used as an excuse to inorganically shove MSM outlets to the front for any 'news-related searches'. There's also weird anomalies with content recommendation that almost feel like "re-education" recommendation bubbles. The more that I didn't click on any of it's forced recommendations, the more it saturated it with them.
     
     Attached are screenshots from YouTube in a private session, after I watched half-way into "Exposing Liberal Hypocrisy and Conservative Close-Mindedness" posted on "Big Think" on YouTube, then watching through several completely unrelated videos after, such as older Linux startup sounds, where it's to the point of 100% of the first page recommendations, and this persisting for majority of that night.
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     pawlicker (pawlicker@outpoa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 14:32:26 JST pawlicker

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     the NZ shooting too was a major seismic shift in that. It's when they went from some "nudging" control to full control, and laid the groundwork for the COVID scare.
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