Hearing stories about YouTube recommending conspiracy videos always fascinates me because my own recommendations rarely veer in that direction, if ever. But I keep to a pretty strict diet of gaming/speedrun videos and bass (guitar, not fish) content, so what I see on my homepage almost entirely adheres to that.

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.