It’s YouTube music, which is showing popular “podcasts” on its explore page. Must be just because it’s popular because nothing in my algo on either youtube or YouTube music would suggest this shit.
Youtube is unironically, completely a tool of the far right. They’ve been pushing hate speech for the last decade+ like every other mainstream social media.
You can open a completely fresh account, look at absolutely anything at all, and your recs will have right wing slop.
People debate whether this was always intentional or just becuase it generates engagement, but imo it’s an intentional psyop because google is the devil
Don’tBe Evil (as possible)I figure its intentional because Google’s executives know right-wing chuds and their politicians will always push corporate-friendly and ultrarich-friendly legislation like tax cuts, deregulation, and defanged government institutions.
But I’m in agreement that it’s likely done with glee by YouTube’s team, who seem as happy to promote right-wing chuds as they do to stamp out left-wing voices from the feed.
Example: I sometimes search for videos I’ve seen from subscriptions, and using the exact title of the video and the creator I still have to wade through three or four pages of search results with far different titles - scrolling past heaps of ideologically-opposite results as I go - to finally find the real video. That’s no mistake, thats an intentional finger on the scale to hide leftist voices.
My assumption is the bias is unintentional, at least partially, and just the priorities of recommendations is weighed heavily to encourage engagement above all else, and stoking fear and anger drives engagement. Also the distribution of content could be a factor. On the right, it seems like everyone is trying to get in on the grift of advertising elk meat or trump coin to exploit their viewers, meanwhile high quality journalism and news is under funded. For every Climate Town or A More Perfect Union, there’s tens or hundreds of right wing fearmongering videos.
The rage-stoking flamebait is definitely a real thing on all social media to drive engagement. But the only explanation for searching for an exact video name with the name of the creator, and the desired video not being in the top few hits but rather buried below dozens and dozens of other results is suppression of that creator. And it happens repeatedly for left-wing creators. That can’t be explained by the ‘I need to feed attention all the time’ algorithm.
There’s actually a simpler explanation. Companies will purposefully make their products worse to keep you using them longer. By prioritizing the algorithm over your search results you’re staying in the app longer, seeing more algo suggestions, and more likely to give up on your search and click something else.
Good examples of this are Google purposefully crippling their own search, or Netflix making it impossible to see what movies they actually have. So they kneecap the product. What are you going to do? Stop using it? If the answer is no, then there’s room to make it just a little worse…
That is another real thing, that doesn’t fit this example.
If it did, any video on other topics would not be in the top few results - and yet in my unscientific testing of several random video titles and authors, they all come up in either the first result or in the first row.
Different experience for searching leftist videos.
I believe the rich aren’t particular on political philosophy, they just think of it pragmatically.
They want content that makes population easier to control, and surprise surprise that almost always is far right direction.
Lol is that chode wearing a Templar tunic? That is hilarious. Look at Me! I’m a KNIGHT when I fight all these WAHMEN
Literal white knight.
Much like their knightly standing, it’s cheap, flimsy and bought instead of earned.
It’s why he looks like a 12 year old with a beard drawn on in markerpen
Stop using streaming services and set sail
Yup. I bailed on my YouTube subscription this year and shifted to community radio and bandcamp.
Yet another reason I’m dropping streaming in favor of ripping CDs and listening to locally stored files, like it’s 2009 again
Jellyfin works a treat in our household and we go to the library a lot more now.
Checkout Bandcamp for stuff you didn’t buy but want to and SoulSeek if you are missing some backups.
Oh, 1,000%! I use the nicotine+ front end for soulseek on Linux, and it’s wonderful
I had been using YouTube for “background noise” a lot — nothing political, just movie reviews and video essays about pop culture. In general, my YouTube diet is pretty non-toxic.
But I fell down a rabbit hole researching a band lately and have been obsessively listening to music for a couple of weeks. Mostly on my MP3 player to give my phone a break. And holy cow it feels nice not to be bombarded with curated Content all the time. I didnt even realize how consistently/constantly there was just STUFF on that, while not bad, wasn’t really contributing anything to my life.
for “background noise”
FWIW there are also radios, including public ones where content (without ads) is delivered via the Internet, usable via
cvlcormpvor even the browser (so nothing to install).I am indeed aware of the existence of radios. I dislike radio because I prefer to have some level of control over what I’m listening to. Even with algorithmic slop I can skip tracks if I want.
You can switch stations.
It seems like I have offended you in some way, and let me assure you that I don’t know how, but I am also utterly incurious as to why.
You haven’t. I’m not offended. I’m literally just sharing a solution.
FWIW I know because that’s what I have been every day for the last few months. I have been using music streaming for years, paying SoundCloud user for a while. Few months ago during my on-going transition away from surveillance capitalism I stopped more and more of commercial cloud services. One of the very last few had been music. I tried quite a few solutions and one of my fear was about music discovery. I thought if I download files then it will be hard to get new music. I looked at technical solutions, e.g. recommendation algorithm, offline and online (with API). I also noticed that my usage was split in at least 2 different listening mode : active vs passive. Active is when I specifically pick a song or an album because I crave it. Passive is when I want background sound, nearly like barely better than white noise. For active it was OK but for passive my own selection was too exciting. I then tried a great public and free French radio ( FIP.fr ) and that solved (by luck) both needs of passive listening AND music discovery. That being said I do not always love the FIP selection so sometimes I’ll switch to other stations hence why I said so. That’s it, nothing more.
wow that thumbnail is disgusting. 10 fucking hours of this garbage!? and this is “popular” content… which supposedly means people actually watch this.
Quick callout to all the people who nodded along to stuff like this for the last 3 years; then whine about marginalized folks being “so political” about ongoing genocides. </3
10 hours of that is fucking nuts. Also claiming that as dating advice is fucking hilarious.
There’s music in your incel propaganda app
Get Tidal or Quobuz or Bandcamp
qobuz is good, but the lack of a roku app kills me. I mainly use my livingroom tv as a stereo
Is that the show where the guy invites on OF models, then insults and humiliates them? Where the models are only going on there because so many of his listeners then subscribe to their OF?
Yes.
The psychology of those incels would be fascinating to study
They enjoy insulting and humiliating these women for doing sex work, then they go ahead and pay for it
Granted that’s been the history of sex work for thousands of years, this is just one of the most direct examples of it. Wonder if it boils down to them wanting to project their own shame and guilt on the women
It always just strikes me as immaturity. People with a physiological demand for sex reaching for what they can’t have in polite society, then letting out their rage and humiliation on people lower than them on the pole, because they never learned how to process their emotions.
Sometimes I wish I didn’t have a conscience. I could be so rich if I didn’t have things like guilt or shame.
In my experience, having grown up in an upper-middle class neighborhood with a mixed bag of people who all went different directions…
It’s not the lack of a conscience that makes you rich. It’s the wealth that degrades your morality.
“I’m going to be an asshole in order to get rich” has not - in my experience - produced my success. I know plenty of shitheads who squandered their family fortunes and ended up doing shit work for shit pay. On the flip side, a few friends and acquaintances who did go on to be successful turned increasingly toxic and miserable as their stars climbed.
Well yeah, just being an asshole doesn’t make money. But when you see how easily people are tricked into giving away their money to unethical actors, it’s easy to see one’s own conscience as a roadblock. Like, “If I would feel comfortable scamming people, I could be rich.” But I’m not comfortable scamming people, even if it would be easy. Ergo, my conscience keeps me from making easy money.
Man who hates a group of people vs group of people.
We should skip to the final evolution of this show where its Man who hates a group of people vs that group of people but all of them have guns.
Why is he wearing Templar tabard? The Templars were barely restrained religious fanatics that hoarded wealth and placed themselves above those around them…oh. So incel republicans?
Qobuz, Tidal or Deezer, dude. All of them actually pay the artists for their streams. I’ve used two first and both of them are great for music.
Youtube music got weird for me, about a week or two ago. I have it as part of my YT subscription, I barely use it. I opened it the other day and they recently started pushing this obviously AI generated like… porn music. I’m not sure how else to describe it.
Such gems like “I flashed me gash & got free bread”
Yes, I did listen to one of them out of curiosity, and now it won’t stop recommending the filth even though I’ve blocked 20 of the songs and said don’t show me stuff like this.
What the actual fuck
here’s the link in case anybody wonders
And now it’s in my Lemmy. Don’t propagate the brainless cunt and give them another platform, just downvote and ignore.
This is mildly infuriating, it’s meant to show things people find offensive or objectionable. If you don’t want to see offensive or objectionable shit block the sub. There’s no way to remove this section on my explore tab, or even down vote or say I don’t want to see episodes like this.
Does press and holding the image not work? You should be able to select “not interested” from there. At least I can with YTM.
No, that works on stuff recommended on my home, but for this, the popular episodes section on the explore tab, there’s no option.
Ah damn, sorry.
Came in to this thread not knowing what an Andrew Wilson was. Still don’t but, feel better about it.
He’s one of the Wilson brothers, the most famous of which was in Cast Away
Chad templar vs augmented bossoms
Andrew Wilson vs. 20 large breasts
He already lost the debate in the thumbnail
