This is one of those videos you are better off watching on YouTube, rather than actually watching the show.
All I can say is kept my attention and ended up watching the video, usually skip / close is the common reaction.
(YouTube Recommended) Recommended Videos Seem to Be Getting Better. This Showed up This Afternoon Thought to Share.
thebadmachine on 30/07/2019 - 16:09
Last edited 30/07/2019 - 17:32
Last edited 30/07/2019 - 17:32
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Probably less ‘extreme / obscure’ than you think. I hardly watch TV shows (I am a film person myself) let alone any ‘Anime’ or any other Japanese content. For some reason I get recommended this kind of ‘off topic’ content once in awhile.
I thought this video + channel might be interesting to those who are interested in this kind of content.I think it’s likely related to a video I opened that was shared / linked by someone, and now it has infected your recommended.
This was the previous off-topic / random recommendation I clicked on. (I shared it on ozb as well)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CbI79e5iZKsAnd I can say throughly enjoyed it. Even though I never listen to / search for ‘metal’ music.
Watched… a few seconds. That is wild. I do love the ability to just find very random, but strangely entertaining (even in a subjective way), videos through Youtube.
On a similar tangent, I was recommended Mongolian Throat-singing Metal on Youtube.
Give it a full end to end viewing when you have time. There are parts where they really shred on the bass + guitar.
Thanks for the link will watch now.I prefer the musicality of ‘Heartless Scat’.
I never really considered listening to ‘metal’ before, but I was somehow able to appreciate it musically with that video.In the Mongolian one I was waiting for a build in tempo or them to bring in the full drum-set and start shredding. I may prefer the traditional throat singing for that one.
Check out Tokyo Gore Police.
That sounds a bit extreme, but I will look it up on imdb.
The tag says it all "Strap yourselves in because things are about to get very, very bloody and very, very strange."
Ahh sounds a bit ‘extreme’ for the sake of being extreme.
I think I like the old-fashioned extreme better from 30-40 years ago (at least the idea of it).
Slightly Sci-Fi-ish looks interesting.
Typically stay away from slasher / zombie type content, it is all a bit stale IMO.
I gave the YouTube video in my post a pass, since it was based in the 70s-80s (a bit comical & ridiculous).
My recommendations.
https://i.imgur.com/w3jnylU.jpgand yes I'm big nerd that subscribes to all the tech channels.
Tom Scott and Technology connections are really good channels, could binge watch them for hours.
Lol yeah I've got LTT as well
Regarding the top left ‘fibre optic’ video. I watched one similar recently about ‘optical digital audio’ history and details about Toshiba’s Toslink technology.
I found it here it is: https://youtu.be/ICcEOXVZ3F0
Edit: it’s the same channel, you probably already watched it.
Omg, so many channels I'm also subscribed to. LTT, Technology Connections, Forgotten Weapons, Corridor Digital… also: That sociopath-looking piano guy, Hardware Unboxed, etc.
You are getting recommended more and more of these random things because people are playing with the algorithms to farm ads. They go around finding obscure out of license material and posting it up. That way no one challenges them for take down and they get free content for you to click.
The video in my post is a review on an old TV show, I think some work went into it to make it.
I agree with the more and more random in ‘recommended’ though. I often scroll through the comments of the random videos and there’s tonnes of comments like ‘how did I end up here’ and ‘YouTube recommended me this and I like it’ etc.
People always talk about "the algorithm", but having the Google Rewards app on my phone I always get surveys asking "Given you watched (video A), do you think (video B) would be a good recommendation?"
…Am I the algorithm?
Surprised you actually answer their surveys. Typical reaction is ‘get out of the way I am trying to use computr’.
Edit: I thought you meant the questions that pop-up on the YouTube website.
I think the algorithm is good enough these days you can just use YouTube signed out (I get recommended videos from the channels I frequent (and related ones), and the ones I skip on watching end up being omitted eventually. I just use the YouTube website and it’s fine.)
Here are a few videos from open tabs some may find interesting (some I am yet to watch).
Tesla powerwall: https://youtu.be/2hYONZqkZcg
Martin Logan subwoofer setup video: https://youtu.be/uzCIMufCQLk
Guitar performance: https://youtu.be/DvCM3jHLwxU / https://youtu.be/qMvUR_9PmwY
8 string Guitar: https://youtu.be/6emElQDVqF4
Disney & Salvador Dali: https://youtu.be/rMLVqQDeY58
Truth about Wasabi: https://youtu.be/fhlklE9wBSY
Sanskrit 10th review: https://youtu.be/LF9ZgQYbo4M
Solitary Confinement Documentary: https://youtu.be/Z5s3yTYig1gThere was a Reply All (podcast) episode recently about how the Youtube algorithm has led to a rise in right-wing nutjobs. It was about how one guy was being attacked by a Youtuber (mainly homophobic stuff), and no action was taken even after getting a lot of attention.
Basically it used to prioritize popular things, and so if you left it alone it would eventually end up at Gangnam Style. So they tweaked it to make recommendations not just on popularity, but to promote some obscure things too. And then all the crazy ranters who no one knew about were suddenly being showed a lot more, and their views spread.
But then they claim that Youtube wants to censor them for political reasons, even before anything happens, so even if people complain about them they've already tied Youtube's hands so they can't pull their channels for legitimate reasons. And demonetization doesn't matter that much.So yea the algorithm is better for finding cool stuff these days, but also legitimized a bunch of insane people who we are stuck with now and are destroying society.
Cool video though
Thanks for your comment.
how the Youtube algorithm has led to a rise in right-wing nutjobs.
I also heard about this, except I would describe them as a rise in people uploading their extreme and superficial ideologies.
People just spouting ideas and conspiracy type information and they are able to achieve a decent following.
Which in turn just encourages them to continue their spouting, often distorting it and moulding it as it grows to their followers expectations (to political or regarding a certain issue or something else).
Kind of ending up like an anarchist business model. It’s a weird internet world.My theory is whatever you as an individual have to offer, the more people you expose it to, the higher the chance of people finding you who are interested in supporting and want join in (sometimes even willing to pay or donate).
And recently it is a case of real weird and obscure stuff that people are finding themselves standing together on.I think it’s ok people have ideas, but when what they share is almost chaotic and completely lacking responsibility it really does boggle the mind how people are able to support that kind of thing.
I think the video I watched described them as ‘idea trolls’ or something similar, in a sense trolls are starting to be taken seriously and some are even able to create a career out of it.I am trying to keep it simple, and I am speaking as one who lacks a full understanding of what is really happening.
I am trying to keep it simple, and I am speaking as one who lacks a full understanding of what is really happening.
Same. It seems like something we should all be much more aware of, but it's too unpleasant to look into. Which seems to help out the trolls, because they take the initiative in defining themselves as something else.
the higher the chance of people finding you who are interested in supporting and want join in
Recently this has seemed somehow skewed to the nutjobs. It might be as simple as most normal people lead normal lives, and problems happen and we work out how to deal with them and move on so we can keep living normal lives.
But now people with problems can seek each other out and legitimize their own inadequacies. Then instead of either trying to fix themselves or living as lone outcasts, they band together and take out their problems on everyone else.
But then this sucks in people who would be able fix themselves, change their circumstances, or are just going through a bad phase.eg incels. Typically terrible, but there must be so many young guys who just haven't yet worked out how to deal with girls, or handle some heartbreak, and blaming all women seems like an easy solution and they may never learn to just hit the gym and get a hobby or something.
I know a dude, nice guy, good looking, bit shy but pretty cool. Yet his FB is filled with Asian masculinity and redpill crap about how dating is hard because things are stacked against him from the start. Maybe without thinking that, he'd try to change himself, because with a little more confidence, dude would be swimming in girls.And that kind of crap pumps up the audience of these dumb ideas and creates a bunch of idiots emboldened by their weaknesses and determined not to fix them
It seems like something we should all be much more aware of, but it's too unpleasant to look into.
I think those are interested by it are aware, myself being interested in human behaviour and such am aware of it.
I would take a look at it from a logical perspective, rather than an apprehensive or pessimistic one.But now people with problems can seek each other out and legitimize their own inadequacies.
Typical group behaviour I would say, most people have a need to ‘belong’ or be accepted & supported, some more than others. I guess I look at it as a more as a general psychological thing.
Remember though there is most often big difference between internet and reality.
I think categorising / labelling individuals is only giving them a false sense of empowerment & sometimes can work for the worst by encouraging them to ‘fit’ the description.Everyone deals with their issues differently, and we are always in a state of change. So I think identifying someone as a ‘insert category’ is on the blunt side of accuracy.
Labelling just makes it easier for those who lack understanding to reach a quick conclusion.
I see people as they are, weak or strong they are people in the end and people are generally flawed.
Makes me think of ‘The Matrix’ which I had a viewing of recently after only seeing it as a teenager. Since people are inherently flawed, when presented with a perfect reality, we reject it (resulting in death or insanity). So in a sense reality had to be made flawed in order for people to accept it as reality.
More and more today we are presented with ‘an illusion of grandeur’ through media and other sources. I think this gives some people a sense of a ‘utopian fantasy’ when in reality we all piss & sh*t, we all stink, and are horny & pathetic in our own ways.
What garbage were you watching for YouTube to suggest you might like to watch this one as well?
You are free to skip the video if you feel the need.
As for how recommended works, it once in awhile recommends something completely random, which has been happening more often lately.
I am sure you have been recommended something odd / off-topic to your usual viewing. Whether you choose to click on it is up to you.I posted a few videos from left open tabs in a comment above if you truly are interested in some of the ‘garbage’ I am watching on YouTube.
From my part regarding whatever you like to watch on YouTube, whether it’s Animal rights videos or Reviews on Baseball cards I am willing to be impartial to what your YouTube video preferences are.
Looked at the title. I'm very curious as to your Youtube history…