"Consider deleting your view history if you haven't already. Go through your subscriptions and see who they're following. Absolutely do not click on more than one of someone's video if you don't want to get flooded with their content."
- Exactly ... which is both hard and sad. You don't always know what the content is before you click out of curiosity or otherwise. For example, I couldn't write this post before clicking on the Leather Apron guy to see what the heck was going on.
And we should be able to listen to normalize arguments from the "other side" of politics without starting a cascade ending with Nazi propaganda. And the easiest way to do that is to take the user "STOP IT" feedback seriously. Which is really the point of my post if my rant and need to keep things under 4k characters obscured the TLDR.
> If anything, because I was so puzzled by what was happening that I looked at who this Leather fellow was, Youtube’s trillion dollar “AI” tech stack will probably serve more and more of this stuff.
So... it worked. You seem to be confused about the goals of Youtube's algorithm - it isn't to show you the content you're most interested in, per se, it's to show you the content you're more likely to add value to by engagement. That can and often does correlate to your interests, but controversy works just as well, which is why these platforms often incentivize controversy over quality. Sometimes they'll throw random stuff into your feed just so see if you'll bite.
Consider deleting your view history if you haven't already. Go through your subscriptions and see who they're following. Absolutely do not click on more than one of someone's video if you don't want to get flooded with their content.