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1. New Janny in Town (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 19:23:29 JST New Janny in Town
   Wtf is wrong with Youtube?
   • Niko :lyrical_lily: (niko@jir.moe)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 20:00:51 JST Niko :lyrical_lily:

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     @MK2boogaloo they know what's of your interest
   • New Janny in Town (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 20:53:40 JST New Janny in Town

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     • Niko :lyrical_lily:
     @niko my interest in good music? Yes.
   • Suzu (suzu@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 20:57:45 JST Suzu

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     @MK2boogaloo well, it tends to show you recommended videos based on your watch history...
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   • New Janny in Town (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 20:58:20 JST New Janny in Town

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     • Suzu
     @Suzu I have never watched any of that kind of video. One time Youtube even recommend me Breadtube shit, even though I never really click on any of their video.
   • Niko :lyrical_lily: (niko@jir.moe)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 21:57:39 JST Niko :lyrical_lily:

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     @MK2boogaloo in femboys or in being one
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   • New Janny in Town (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 21:59:51 JST New Janny in Town

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     • Niko :lyrical_lily:
     @niko I'm not a faggot like you Nikobro.
   • Ace Ice (ace66062@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 22:09:22 JST Ace Ice

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     @MK2boogaloo clearly its recommending you videos based on what you watch :tanya_smug2: (and also what you search in google)
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   • New Janny in Town (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 22:10:22 JST New Janny in Town

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     • Ace Ice
     @Ace66062 I never search anything like that..........
   • Ace Ice (ace66062@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 22:24:09 JST Ace Ice

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     @MK2boogaloo Sure you don't. :tanya_smug3: Jokes aside I've noticed I'm also getting YT recommendations based on Steam store pages I've viewed or even straight up from group chat discussions even though I have nothing jewgle connected to either of those
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   • New Janny in Town (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 22:25:16 JST New Janny in Town

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     • Ace Ice
     @Ace66062 yeah that too, I tried to ignore the recommendation about something I talked with people on another platform because I just thought it's a coincidence.
   • gentooP (gentoop@social.mikutter.hachune.net)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 23:46:10 JST gentooP

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     • Scarlet :02_dance:

     @MK2boogaloo @scarlet I think some of these are based on tangential tag stuff. I hopped on clear YouTube and started to watch Vocaloid stuff and then it showed this Jaiden animation gay closet video for some reason probably because it mentioned or manually tagged Vocaloid onto that video. Since I was on private instance I couldn't get rid of it on the sidebar. We all know they do this kind of stuff with the top toolbar, it's not out of reason to say they do to other stuff.

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   • Scarlet :02_dance: (scarlet@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 23:46:11 JST Scarlet :02_dance:

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     @MK2boogaloo You. You are wrong. Like it or not, most of the things YouTube pushes to you is based on your watched history, and sometimes Google search history too (though I haven't used Google search in a while, so I don't know how much that influences things these days).
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   • New Janny in Town (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 00:34:15 JST New Janny in Town

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     • Scarlet :02_dance:
     @scarlet no, that's bullshit. Youtube recommended me breadtube's videos from time to time too, despite never seeing any of them.
   • New Janny in Town (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 03:00:12 JST New Janny in Town

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     • Scarlet :02_dance:
     @scarlet yeah I think that's the thing that happened here, I watched one video about Nightcore and then this popped up.
   • Scarlet :02_dance: (scarlet@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 03:00:13 JST Scarlet :02_dance:

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     @MK2boogaloo
     But what were the breadtube videos about? Cause it they were tangential to a topic you saw a video from a right-winger on, that's what it will base the recommendation on. Watch a video on someone saying "taxation is theft" and YouTube will think you're interested in "taxation" as a general topic, and give you the breadtube view too, just in case.
     YouTube's recommendation matches can be quite loose at times. Watch a video on F1 racing, and you might get a recommendation of Jay Leno talking about his car collection. Watch Minecraft videos showing off mods, and you get recommendations of people talking about how to optimize game engines. For this example, the connection might not be immediately noticeable, but remember, some of the most used Minecraft mods have to do with optimizing it to run faster. Hence, you the recommendations about game engines.
     Not all connections are "here's the exact same thing as the previous video". If you watch political commentary videos from time to you, you'll get breadtube videos too, because the algorithm isn't quite that sophisticated to know what is left-wing or right-wing. It knows some YouTubers are connected to others, so it will have a sort of Venn diagram of the 2 sides, but as far as it's concerned, both circles are within a "politics" circle, so it will try to offer you videos from all of the "politics" circle. Like Minecraft and game engines are 2 circles within a more general "gaming" circle.
     As for the "femboy" recommendation... do you watch vtuber or anime related stuff? Anything related to tomboys perhaps? Anything that discusses trans people (even derogatory)? All of these have a potential of being adjacent to the "how to be a femboy" topic to the YouTube algorithm.
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