I remembered a memory trick that helped me with school, and wanted to recomend it to a friend.
So, I found the video, and then it hit me. 12 years ago, youtube actually used to recomend useful insights instead of just non-stop ragebait.
Damn....
You have to actively train the algo or else it will train you. Generally speaking, you can make it do whatever you want by actively refusing to click on slop.
@cjd @LukeAlmighty
While true, people severely overestimate how personalized YouTube's algorithm is.
@cjd @LukeAlmighty
Yes, you basically get put into groups of interest, and get fed the same videos that everyone else in those groups gets fed.
But at times, you get things that don't fit neatly in those groups of interest either, and I have had countless occasions of getting videos I wasn't interested in and didn't watch, but then I see people on here talking about or referencing that video. So from what I can tell, every once in a while YouTube throws a couple of random videos to everyone, to try to get people to expand their areas of interest, and get them to watch even more stuff.
