I almost never watch “shorts” but my suggestions for it seem to have an…uhhh…adult theme. I don’t watch any such thing with YouTube. Does everyone see garbage like this?

    • myliltoehurts
      19·
      3 months ago

      Yeah the YouTube algorithm is one of the worst recommendations engines I have seen tbh. It actively removes types of videos I repeatedly search for from my recommendations, and fills it with garbage I never watch.

      But in the case of op it looks like a 100% horny content ratio which seems excessive, even for yt.

      • Delphia@lemmy.world
        9·
        3 months ago

        The Horny algorithm kicks in hard and fast.

        If I want porn I watch porn, I dont give myself softcore blueballs. But sometimes when I’m dumbscrolling I’ll click on one and YT thinks I submitted a bulk order.

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6·
        3 months ago

        I’ve never had issues with the YouTube algorithm, my feed is full of games, tech, science stuff and long form videos explaining shit. That’s about it, because that’s about all I watch.

        Am I just lucky that it’s reliable for me?

        • myliltoehurts
          2·
          3 months ago

          For me, there are 2 specific things that annoy me to no end with it. 1 is my guilty pleasure, I love watching hour long videos from Asian channels where they just film restaurants or bakeries making food in large batches. Honestly, youtube seems to actively remove them from my feed. I have to search for them every 2 weeks despite watching this content at least weekly. The second is the opposite. At Christmas I searched for a video of a fireplace with music to put on as ambient background for dinner. My feed is chock full of 8+ hour music playlists now despite never having looked at another one. It’s been 4 months.

          I don’t know what it is but i swear they have content they like showing you and content they dont like. If you want the former your experience will be OK. If you want the latter then they just decide you’re wrong and still get the former.

        • loobkoob@kbin.social
          1·
          3 months ago

          Mine’s similarly very good at recommending things that appeal to me. It does a good job at recommending a mix of videos from channels and topics I regularly watch and new things that appeal to me. It also recommends albums to me somewhat often that I end up really enjoying, too.

          I definitely understand people not wanting to have content served up to them by algorithms, but I will say my personal YouTube experience is a happy and interesting little bubble, for the most part. I don’t get any of the weird, hate-fuelled conspiracy videos, or the “AI reading out Reddit post” videos, or any of the other nonsense that I see other people have to deal with. Out of all of the social media algorithms I’ve experienced, it’s been by far the best one for me.