I use YouTube without an account most of the time either through a browser (incognito) or NewPipe or PipePipe (Android), which means that the algorithm doesn’t adapt to me.
So, every time I see a video, I know that the recommends are unadulterated algorithmic rage. I may be watching a gardening video, there will be some “Women are Evil” type of video, or “random guy talks about why [thing that women do] is wrong, bad and immoral.” I am even seeing a comeback of those “sjw cringe compilation” videos - what’s this, 2016???
There are also A LOT, and I mean, a fuckton lot, of trad Catholic content being pushed. Mind you, I even set my YouTube to different countries and languages, and it’s being spilled that way too.
Fucking nightmare.
I don’t want to end it in a low note, so I will also acknowledge that there’s quite a bit of left, openly socialist, communist content, too. 10 years ago there was none of that, the right could roam free (I even identified as one, lmao). Contradictions of capitalism, I guess.
It’s pretty much a given that if you listen to any podcasts, podcast clips, or comedy clips it will push you into the Joe Rogan pipeline. If you watch any streamers of anything, it will push you into political streamers and then to the guy who looks like an Edvard Munch painting and destiny, H3.
On the other hand, the algorithm is also bad for everything else. I watch one craft video and suddenly it’s all striver maker small business etsy shit. The algo has no chill, it’s 0-100 instantly.