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The algorithmic social media feeds on the big corporate platforms are still a major problem. I watch clips of old sitcoms and animal videos on YouTube and despite making vigorous use of the "do not recommend channel" button, I've been getting recommended "women getting owned" content and semen retention nonsense; I honestly don't even know what I clicked that would suggest that I'd be interested in that shit, but the algorithm is pretty clearly still pipelining men into the chud ecosystem and if they lack political experience and context, then it's very easy for them to get sucked in.
If it's still causing you problems, try deleting your entire watch history and then immediately go and click on some of your favorite videos, topics, or interests and let the videos play for a while.
I had to do this once to stop being shown stuff I didn't want to see, and it seemed to help.
You're absolutely correct, though. Whatever you click on the algorithm will aggressively push similar content to you. If you aren't paying attention, it will happily shovel slop, and I can see why youth would be taken down an alt right rabbit hole.
That suggestion sounds like something that I should try. Thank you! 🦊
Edit: A couple days later after doing this and I can confidently say that this definitely cleaned up the feed a bit. Would recommend.
You're very welcome! Another tip I forgot to mention is to go into your settings and turn off auto-play videos. That setting might be mobile only? I can't remember off the top of my head, but I found that's how I started seeing stuff I didn't want to.
It was auto playing videos and sometimes would play a few seconds of something I had no interest in, and then try to show me more of that as a result. This should help!
There was a week or so where I kept getting pushed shock content that was really gross and this was what helped fix it for me.
In the future if you ever click on a video and realize you don't like it at all, you can go into your watch history and delete it there manually and it should help keep it from recommending similar videos too.