Stop using youtube.

EDIT: A lot of people real fuckin triggered by this and looking for any excuse to keep using. Fucking addicts.

What else has such a catalog? Going to be hard to persuade creators to host their own content with ads and subscriptions.

nebula.tv

Lots of popular Youtubers are already there, and they strip the sponsor segments out of their content too.

The popular YouTubers are trash tho

Most of them are literally Nazis. Anytime I go to youtube and finish a video all the suggested videos to watch after are obscene “anti-woke” trash.

The youtube to right-wing pipeline is real.

EDIT:

Here’s after me watching an old Lightning Bolt music video. Six videos are related to Lightning Bolt, being live videos or music videos, but a solid four videos are all weird right-wing Nazi pipeline shit. One defending Trump and saying he has a plan, one lamenting the pushback against Tesla, one shitting on the new Snow White for being “woke,” and one literally with the giant title “fuck your pronouns.” Plus one old cartoon and an episode of Surrounded with one doctor vs. twenty anti-vax (I am not convinced this Surrounded show actually does anything helpful for any discourse.) I have watch history disabled so none of this comes from my watch history, this is the default that youtube gives to people.

The top right video is a video absolutely dumpstering Tesla and calling it a worthless stock. Your recommendations will also highly depend on what video you were just watching, could it be that users who watch your video also happen to watch these other videos? Is that the platforms fault?

dumpstering Tesla and calling it a worthless stock.

Oh, so it’s just wall street dick sucking and pretending the whole “market” isn’t just a rigged game? Counts as right-wing slop to me.

Is that the platforms fault?

Considering we have a fuck-ton of evidence from research that it isn’t just what other people watch that determines it: Yes, it is actually. Sorry these aren’t fucking videos so that you’ll actually pay attention to them.

ucdavis.edu/…/youtube-video-recommendations-lead-…

dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3351095.3372879

A lot of defense for a company that is literally in the process of saying “fuck your rights” to the same people being attacked in a lot of these videos. Jesus christ.