Has anybody else had this or is it just me? Because YouTube has started reccommending me some really weird shit. The other day, I got the popular kids TV show 'Paw Pups' (and bear in mind I use my YouTube account to listen to music and procrastinate on gaming channels when I'm bored out of my mind), and a video called 'How to theoretically turn a sphere inside out'.
Both of these were not mildly interesting, although if I recall correctly I ended up watching almost the entire episode of 'Paw Pups', for some reason.
Subliminal messaging?
Who cares?
Eh, but recently it's getting pretty badly out of hand. If you want to read about WHY it is happening, read here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/Of3kmrH8E7E
I say it's getting out of hand because A: the algorithms are all messed up and stupid and a bunch of baloney, and it annoys the hell out of everybody. Every one of these stupid videos, I end up accidentally clicking on because it's CONSTANTLY IN MY WAY, and I always find it funny to see the comments, which normally involve kids saying 'omf not again'. And B: it's getting pretty seriously stupid. Ever heard of the 'Mursi Tribe'? No? Well, neither had I until YouTube reccommended a documentary about them to me for some reason. But that's not the weird thing - get this - the women had their breasts OUT FOR THE CAMERA TO SEE -- now don't get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with nudity anywhere, it's could be referred to as a fundamental part of our civil and human rights if we so choose - but I have a parental-type regulation on my account and they managed to breach it to show me a tribeswoman's breasts? Whhhhaaaaa?
Please, YouTube. Stop it. pls
Another major fuck-up on YouTube's part is what they're deciding to call 'YouTube Red'. Stupid, right? Colours, like, I'm ** years old, I want inventive names, not colours of the alphabet! ,(-o^o,)
If you don't already know what YouTube Red is, it's a way for YouTube to make more money than monetization, advertisements, etc. They invite YouTubers to join a platform in which they can 'express new content' for a price, and therefore we have to pay for it too. Sure, it's like, movies and stuff, and it's from really great YouTube channels like Game Theory and College Humour, but we HAVE TO PAY -- YouTube, c'mon man!
We don't want to pay! Half of the people on YouTube are like me-- smelly teenagers! We barely have enough money to go out with friends, or pay for lunch, we need free content with cats and stuff! The fact that the good YouTubers are putting better content on YouTube Red so that they can make money seems like a sell out to me.
But on the other hand, it may give a platform to earn money for the YouTuber (whilst of course outsourcing credit to YouTube Red), so that he/she/Michael can improve the quality of their current videos, or learn more to work on.
But the only problem with this is that most of the YouTubers that get invited are large companies already, with lots of money, lots of workers, and lots of experience and content which they know how to manage easily - so it is, genuinely, a whole load of bull!
Well, nobody cares, anyway. It's not available in England yet, so there's still time to deposit all my videos in an offshore account and move to a small Catholic town in Brazil, before getting violently murdered and have my house pillaged, in time for the ransackers to find one of THE MOST AMAZING videos ever:
Both of these were not mildly interesting, although if I recall correctly I ended up watching almost the entire episode of 'Paw Pups', for some reason.
Subliminal messaging?
Who cares?
Eh, but recently it's getting pretty badly out of hand. If you want to read about WHY it is happening, read here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/Of3kmrH8E7E
I say it's getting out of hand because A: the algorithms are all messed up and stupid and a bunch of baloney, and it annoys the hell out of everybody. Every one of these stupid videos, I end up accidentally clicking on because it's CONSTANTLY IN MY WAY, and I always find it funny to see the comments, which normally involve kids saying 'omf not again'. And B: it's getting pretty seriously stupid. Ever heard of the 'Mursi Tribe'? No? Well, neither had I until YouTube reccommended a documentary about them to me for some reason. But that's not the weird thing - get this - the women had their breasts OUT FOR THE CAMERA TO SEE -- now don't get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with nudity anywhere, it's could be referred to as a fundamental part of our civil and human rights if we so choose - but I have a parental-type regulation on my account and they managed to breach it to show me a tribeswoman's breasts? Whhhhaaaaa?
Please, YouTube. Stop it. pls
Another major fuck-up on YouTube's part is what they're deciding to call 'YouTube Red'. Stupid, right? Colours, like, I'm ** years old, I want inventive names, not colours of the alphabet! ,(-o^o,)
If you don't already know what YouTube Red is, it's a way for YouTube to make more money than monetization, advertisements, etc. They invite YouTubers to join a platform in which they can 'express new content' for a price, and therefore we have to pay for it too. Sure, it's like, movies and stuff, and it's from really great YouTube channels like Game Theory and College Humour, but we HAVE TO PAY -- YouTube, c'mon man!
We don't want to pay! Half of the people on YouTube are like me-- smelly teenagers! We barely have enough money to go out with friends, or pay for lunch, we need free content with cats and stuff! The fact that the good YouTubers are putting better content on YouTube Red so that they can make money seems like a sell out to me.
But on the other hand, it may give a platform to earn money for the YouTuber (whilst of course outsourcing credit to YouTube Red), so that he/she/Michael can improve the quality of their current videos, or learn more to work on.
But the only problem with this is that most of the YouTubers that get invited are large companies already, with lots of money, lots of workers, and lots of experience and content which they know how to manage easily - so it is, genuinely, a whole load of bull!
Well, nobody cares, anyway. It's not available in England yet, so there's still time to deposit all my videos in an offshore account and move to a small Catholic town in Brazil, before getting violently murdered and have my house pillaged, in time for the ransackers to find one of THE MOST AMAZING videos ever: