I'm surprised. I've been blocking Jordan Peterson videos for years from YouTube, and I still get recommended something with him in it weekly. I also don't watch political videos generally on the platform.

I wonder what you're watching to make YouTube think you want to see it.

I don't see Jordan Peterson or any of those right-wing videos in my suggestions at all.

I just went to my front page, and everything there is stuff I'm interested in. There's the latest clip from a Hell's Kitchen episode, a Gamers Nexus video, an aviation incident with ATC recordings, a video from Fully Ramblomatic (game reviewer), a video on how to to use a cable comb and why you'd want to, a LockPickingLawyer video, videos related to MS Flight Simulator, mountain biking, Factorio, Technology Connections, Adam Savage's Tested...

There is literally not a single suggested video that I wouldn't be interested in in the first 3 pages of my YouTube front page.

So when people complain that YouTube is constantly suggesting right-wing content, brainrot, and MrBeast, I don't know what the hell they're talking about.

Heck, I watch Legal Eagle, which gets pretty political, and yet I don't get basically any political content suggestions.

Are you guys not logged in or something? Constantly browsing from incognito windows?

I'm logged in.

I let YouTube remember my history indefinitely. I've never been recommended MrBeast (and only recently-ish heard of him, the last year or so). Maybe years ago, I watched some clips of Joe Rogan if they popped up, but I've never been a regular listener.

My earlier comment shouldn't have been so down on YouTube - overall, my recommendations are good. But it does concern me that the algorithm consistently tries to push Peterson on me.

I do watch a lot of sports commentary and breakdowns, maybe that leads down the path to Peterson?

Just from your summary, your viewing habits put out vivid, clear signals that you like commercialized hobbies like gaming and mountain biking.

Not everybody telegraphs how to get into their wallet as well as you do!

youtube is utterly convinced i want to see videos of people using vintage synthesizers to recreate modern songs. i have been telling it i'm not interested in this for months, like actively trying to correct whatever is happening there. they always come back.

Jordan Peterson isn't the alt right, though. Why would he be relevant?

Giving you the benefit of the doubt with this comment, I recommend googling their relationship with the alt right

Sorry - I might not be following, but I don't know who they are. No worries either way, but if you're able to provide something to read I'd be happy to. Googling something, especially with modern Google, doesn't guarantee I'll get to the article you're thinking of.

> I don't know who they are.

"they" in that sentence was Jordan Peterson.

> the article you're thinking of

There's plenty of articles to find.

I agree there are articles, but that's tricky, I think. E.g. this article[0] says "...having amassed a substantial alt-right following...", but it's unsubstantiated.

I can't tell if it's just placed in articles to get people to believe it or if it's true. How big is the alt-right? Is 100 people on the alt-right a substantial alt-right following? How big is that following compared to his overall following size? Is this just the same logic as "You think snow is white? Did you know Adolf Hitler thought snow was white?"?

As a meta-point, I understand that uninquiring minds don't want to know, and you can get a long way by defining yourself by people you don't like. But I genuinely do want to know, or at least ask the question, and if Bernie Sanders were constantly tarred with "Has a substantial following in the KKK community" I'd be asking the same thing: how many people is that, and how many is it of the total people who like him?

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/...

Glancing at the top results I think this one has a solid view on how the connection gets close, even if I think it's too nice to him. https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/social-science-jordan-pete...