I watch a lot of You Tube through my Tivo, and in recent days, since the Israeli conflict reared its ugly head, I’m getting a lot of recommendations for videos about the Rapture. Although I’m Christian, I don’t believe it will happen “that way”, and I don’t watch those kinds of videos anyway.
Is anyone else seeing the same kind of thing, or at least something comparable?
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Nope. The only difference right now is just all the short form content I get recommended. I watched a few Simpsons clips, and now it seems to think I want to know everything about them.
There’s usually connection, no matter how broad they are. Do you watch a lot of Christian content? Did you watch any videos about the Israeli conflict? I could see those coalescing into videos about the Rapture, because so many who believe in such are obsessed with Israel, and “pray for Israel” is trending right now.
If it were me, I’d pull up YouTube’s video history and see if there was anything obvious that could lead to it. If so, I’d remove that video. If not, I’d just start marking the recommendations as “Not Interested.” And, if it’s a specific channel about this topic (and it has nothing else I’d be interested in), I’d even go with “Don’t recommend this channel.” Both are options if you click (or tap) the three dots on the upper right of a recommendation. They may also do that thing where they ask you if a particular video is a good recommendation, and I’d choose the one star option.
I wish the algorithm would be smarter and notice I when I don’t click on certain videos no matter how many times they offer it, but it doesn’t seem to. Though, currently, what’s messing with me is the new desire to have the video autoload if I hover on it. The old small previews were fine, as they were fast. But just playing the video from the beginning but muted is entirely useless to me.
I do watch some Christian content, mostly mainstream or liberal. Once in a while, I’ll check out something that’s really “out there”, and that goes for other YT genres.