For me I got recommended a video “How to pronounce COCK in British English” - and I didn’t actually watch any learning english related video before and never watched any videos on that channel - It was just so weird how it appeared in my recommended…

  • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    An otomatone cover of an Evanescence song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmxLja-DRIw

    I didn’t even know what an otomatone was before watching that video, and I have no idea why youtube recommended it to me as this isn’t exactly my favorite music genre, but I have to admit that it is kinda cool nonetheless.

    The second weirdest thing youtube did was recommend my own videos to me, like “here, watch your own sh*t again you nerd!” … I feel like there should be some sort of programming that prevents this useless behaviour. That algorythm is bonkers sometimes.