Podcast Doug and car guy Doug is way way better than used car salesman Doug.
I know this sub has cooled on him and Matt is well Matt but honestly this was one of the best car related listens for me this year.
I also love it when throttle house goes on smoking tire podcast.
If you didn’t watch that stuff YouTube wouldn’t be recommending it to you
Not true at all. And I‘m not talking about my personal feed I‘m talking about the fact that a billion dollar corporation is able to pretend this garbage algorithm is the best they can do.
And even if the average user does click on that content, how braindead do you have to be to recommend top 10 compilations over channels which put a serious budget into original content specifically for your company, don‘t make me laugh.
It sais the algorithm is pushing: „Relevance, Engagement, Quality“
And what relevance is, that‘s entirely up for Youtube to interpret.
Now if you‘re able to login to a computer with no search history and straight face tell me the stuff on the trending pages is relevant when that‘s supposedly their number 1 criteria then you‘re either completely out of your mind or you‘re getting a feed that‘s entirely different from the one they push in Germany.
it’s anecdotal for sure, but my homepage is entirely videos I might genuinely watch. 0 Drama, 0 listicles, 0 bullshit.
If you don’t have any watch history, yeah it’ll be lowest common denomenator crap because they don’t know what you’ll engage with.
It’s not about “the average user” it’s about you specifically - given we’re talking about specific audiences getting or not getting served content from that channel.
This is categorically false. Youtube is constantly trying to recommend shit that you explicitly don’t want. I suspect they try to show you things that make you angry because anger = engagement on the internet.
For example. I have said “do not recommend” and “dislike” every single time I get joe “misinformation” Rogan content. And yet no matter how hard I try it sneaks back in through the algorithm after a few weeks. Same with theo von. I also can’t get rid of breaking bad / better call Saul for some reason.
Don’t dislike it - that’s engagement and requires clicking into the video. Just say don’t recommend the channel and after a while it’ll get the hint