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My watch history would peg me as NOT a Republican. Youtube's short feed will serve me
"Do not recommend channel." "The downvote button doesn't even seem to be a button anymore but I clicked it anyway." "Report video for misinformation and/or supporting terrorism." But the algorithm keeps churning it up.
Guy you replied to is trying to pretend his individual experience is representative of the whole.
I'm not sure there is a "representative of the whole" here; I think the Youtube algorithm is modal.
I think it's an evolution of the old spam bots, like if you had an email address that in any way indicated you were male you'd get "v1agra" and "c1alis" ads nonstop, I'm sure you'd get makeup and breast enlargement spam or some shit in a woman's inbox, whatever they can make you feel insecure enough to buy.
Huh, never seen that, but of course that exists. I watched part of one and it was as cringy as I thought it would be.
From that list, only one is anything close to "alt right" (last one). I'm guessing a lot of people that like truck astrology or top gear also watch alt right crap, so whatever is causing you to be recommended those videos is probably leading to the last.
I don't think YouTube's algorithm looks at content, it probably more looks at what other people watched that watched similar videos as you.