Comment on A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games

• ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  YouTube, like other corporate social media and engagement platforms, thrives on anger and conflict, and pushes shitty takes higher up the recs list to get angry engagement.

  So it’s more likely to be bad than good.

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What have y’all been clicking on YT? I watch, frankly, an unhealthy amount of YT and I don’t get recommendations for hateful shit.

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    • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I barely use youtube. I actively avoid it as much as possible

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      • NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        2things.

        Funny that people are trying to evangelise time wasting brainrot

        Also you must have so much useful time without the time wasting brainrot.

        goes back to watching people process clay for some insane reason

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That depends on what you watch and subscribe. Watch angry, conflict-driven videos, and you’ll get those.

    I personally don’t get any of that shit in my feed.

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    • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As I’ve said three times now, I barely use YouTube and then only direct links. This isn’t that. YouTube rewards civil bigots so civil bigots are common and have big audiences

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Which is why my general rule of thumb is to avoid the top channels. Some things I especially try to avoid:

        • lots of jump cuts
        • stupid thumbnails
        • clickbait headlines

        Those are things that drive “engagement,” and going after engagement for engagement’s sake is a clear sign to me that the channel isn’t worth my time. If the channel largely avoids that crap and still manages to have a respectable subscriber count, it’s a lot more likely to be a decent channel. Some channels I really like:

        • Gamer’s Nexus
        • Digital Foundry
        • Tech Ingredients

        Each of those have high quality content, tend to avoid most of the above (still have BS thumbnails, but not nearly as bad as the big channels), and have a sizeable following. Good content absolutely exists, you just have to scrape away the crap on top to find decent channels.

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