and “dislike” every single time I get joe “misinformation” Rogan conten

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

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.

If you didn’t watch that stuff YouTube wouldn’t be recommending it to you