I found it got weird quite quickly without any conscious input on my part. Animal cruelty, conspiracy stuff and things that YouTube has never suggested.
I always remove objectionable videos I accidentally watch from my Watch History to prevent the algorithm from using it a basis for recommending me stuff.
But then I watch one innocuous video outside of my core interests—say, washing machine repair how-to, or a clip of an old sitcom, and then my feed gets infected with Jordan Peterson or other weird shit and I'm like ah, this is what everyone's talking about! And I have to go prune my watch history until they vanish. It's bizarre.
Though, if you get out of the YT algorithm, for eg. in incognito mode, I've seen very poor recommendations as well. Like viral bait videos. But not like Tiktok.
https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/where-conspira...
This is not a problem specific to TikTok, fixing this issue is just a matter of improving the moderation systems, and at this point it's just noise, however the celebrities like Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan, they both come from YouTube/Instagram, so maybe the source of that kind of content originates from the same place? go figure
Is it enough to ban YouTube of Facebook? of course not, why is it for TikTok?
The strategy need to improve or change
The amount of misinformation and disturbing videos I've seen was astonishing.
"Trash culture" is a natural human phenomenon of which no culture has a monopoly on.
There is a better strategy to counter foreign threats than blaming others for doing what you have been doing for decades, it makes you look like a fool