Notices by Reality the Blood Wraith 🌹💙🩸🗡 (thebloodwraith@shota.house)

Restarting my #oldinternet thread.

I encourage you to get everything out of your Watch Later list. Even if you aren't trying to only get videos from way back when recommended only, there are good reasons:

1. You have hundreds of even thousands of videos in there. It's like hoarding. Just let it go. If you are meant to see them, they will eventually be recommended to you again.

2. Those videos don't suit your current interests and you know it.

3. They are likely continuing to recommend you things based on your Watch Later, which means your recommended is polluted with garbage.

4. If you're like me, you used to watch people who turned out to be awful, and their stuff is in your Watch Later, long forgotten. Nobody wants to be jump scared with a DSMP recommendation.

If deleting 3k videos by hand doesn't sound like a fun time, you may want to consider the possibility of deleting that YouTube account. If you make another one, make sure your cache is cleared, and you don't have linked Google accounts, or you'll still get things in your recommended that indicates YouTube remembers your previous account.

If your goal is to get rid of AI only from your recommended, then add this to your searches on both YouTube and Google:

before:2022-08-22

However, if you want to also cull Mr Beast style retention editing from your recommended, do this:

before:2017-01-01

Your next course of action after you've cleared all your history and made YouTube forget you is to go look up things using this method, make a playlist of videos from before the unwanted date, and then remember to turn off watch history if you're trying out a new channel or watching something that you likely won't want recommended to you. Take a few days to a week of just letting these videos play while you aren't there so that YouTube starts recommending the correct content to you. It will still try to push new videos, but it'll eventually be 90-95% older videos after awhile.

At first, YouTube will be confused about what you want, and recommend, for example, anime videos from every year. If you indiscriminately watch videos that are older, it will wonder what you're planning. But then, it will finally give only videos that are old. Always remember to not watch newer things (unless it's from a trusted channel that you know doesn't meet the criteria for content you want to avoid) with watch history on.

This works for all websites. You can cull all AI from every search if you do the first search month I recommended. So, until we get a website that isn't garbage, you can still use Pinterest through Google:

Anime art Pinterest before:2022-08-22

You can cull further like this:

Anime art Pinterest -catboy -catgirl -neko -furry -sonic -hedgehog -blue -pink before:2022-08-22

On YouTube, you can also cull names of creators, and words in titles. Not adding the year this time.

Minecraft -dsmp -dream -george -willbur

You can cull websites from searches.

Poses for art -pinterest -reddit

If you know how to use tamper monkey, you can have a lot of stuff done for you in regards to certain specific searches. I'd explain how, but I need to learn more before I talk.

Can't find anything that fits the mold for what I want to watch based off of any of my current interests, and I do NOT want to have to be the change I want to see in the world.

@JustDisa I thought KYC was a legal requirement? That sort of thign only starts happening when certain products are bought in bulk or in too close succession in areas that tend to have issues with scams, fraud, and money laundering (such as buying large amounts of gift cards).

I have an idea:

What if we made it cheaper and easier to do things the ethical way? Businesses would switch on their own because they care about profits, not whether their stuff is made with child labor, underpaid workers, or by dumping toxins everywhere. If unethical options became the expensive, crappy ones, and the ethical stuff was better and more affordable, change would happen fast.

This has to be something everyone can afford, even people barely scraping by. We don’t need the government stepping in—because that usually just makes things worse—we need solutions that actually work for regular people.

Instead of shaming folks for buying or watching the "wrong" thing (which honestly just annoys people and doesn’t help), we could share better alternatives in a positive way:
"Hey, I found this cheaper, better option to [bad product]! It works way better, costs less, and I’ll never go back. Check out my review here: [insert link]."

Nobody wants to feel like their one purchase/view is killing the planet, especially when it’s really the big corporations causing the damage. If we make it easy to switch to stuff that’s not trash, people will actually do it.

#realitygetspolitical

@JustDisa The radicalization part is exactly what I'm thinking. it's the same for all things. i don't know what it is, but telling a human not to do something often makes them want to do it more, to the point of fixation.

For instance, I didn't really like lolisho until enough people made an issue of it. At first it was pure spite, but now it's unironic enjoyment.

I'm not sure how we could find a way to make something be cheaper, ethical, and higher quality. Some off brand things are so awful that i could never recommend them to anyone because the off brand tastes so bad or "functions" so poorly, that it just makes all off brand things look like an awful idea.

Some people might at least try to go for cheaper/more ethical, but don't realize that the off brand product they're buying is literally owned by the same guy they're trying to avoid. In terms of keeping things ethical, we're having serious monopoly issues in America. When i was in retail, I learned that the candy companies that were "competing" that we would promote at the cash register were literally the same guy wearing different hats. They break off into differet companies so they don't get in trouble for having a monopoly, but they still own everything. And almost every company is tied to one major evil. That's how it always goes. I found this out while briefly trying to figure out how I could avoid giving Nestle money and realized that they are tied to way too many. If a person doesn't care about other human beings, that's how you get rich. If I had even 1% less morals, I would probably be doing quite well right now.

It'd be rough, but the only way would literally be to buy starter materials, and then be able to produce more materials from the starter materials we were given. We'd be making initial investments in places that are evil to start, but could go from there and create things that are good, and try to pay the unfortunate back later to make up for that initial investment. They are deeply wealthy to the point that they can easily buy and sell countries. Their wealth is the kind that can command standing armies. Control entire sectors of government. Almost anyone can be bought. Every human has a price.

Ethics aren't the first thing that comes to people's minds when they buy. They're an exhausted person coming home from work that just wants to eat and not feel like a criminal for trying to live. We're all too tired to go on an endless search to try and figure out whether a purchase is ethical or not. We're going for quality, price, and effectiveness. But if we find a way to make ethical things easy to obtain whether someone researches them, sees them in an ad, or just starts on accident, then we can get rid of the barrier to entry, which changes everything. The only issue I can foresee is if the on brand companies started deeply lowering their prices in the way that walmart competes with local grocery stores. But this assumes that they're smart enough to take that loss for 10+ years straight trying to compete with the new game in town. They haven't seemed smart for awhile. They're so out of touch with reality with the financial decisions they've been making, doing stuff like replacing workers with robots that can barely do a real person's job before the robots are even ready. With some decisions they're all making in every area of product, it's as if they're allergic to money.

There could also be the idea that they instead take the slander approach, or the Luigi approach trying to make the competition stop existing. If they're especially stupid, they'd be that bold while trying to make it go away, but as I said, they have shown to have lights on upstairs, but nobody seems to be home.

@JustDisa That must have been a pain to deal with.

While I'm not encouraging the idea of people not even trying to begin with, a lot of people are so exhausted that they don't have the mental capacity to be able to do more than go to bed after work. That's why i want to find a way that takes the searching and research out of it and just get the products out there.

I think something that could make ethical things more accessible is if we had a way to do like how some fast food and coffee shops do where someone else can pay for other people's orders ahead of time. So if someone wanted to, they could pay ahead of time so other people could get to try that product. This would make people quickly get off the fence about trying the new thing because now it's completely free, eliminating the fear that people in poverty have about losing what little money they have trying something new and finding that they didn't like it.

Capital is an issue, but I bet an effort like this could literally be funded with crowdfunding to get started. Getting a following isn't easy, but the idea does exist. This conversation has been a good one. I'm not just spinning my wheels. I'm getting somewhere. You love to see it.