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Green or red flag? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It isn't a good test, because YouTube algorithms are shitty. For example, I disagree with Ben Shapiro probably 90% of the time and think he's an odious troll, but because I watched him in a debate once, YT pushed videos of him for months after.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's actually a hidden test - she doesn't care about the recommendations but wants to see if you're using ReVanced.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    I didn't even watch him, I watched videos very obviously and openly critical of his horseshit. YouTube's response is to recommend direct videos from many of these fascist sucklers.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I use YouTube specifically to dive into the right wing conservative anti-science rabbit hole. I think it important to understand how many of those people there are and what they believe. I also find it extremely entertaining, in a "this is incredibly sad" kind of way. I have fox news and evolution debunking videos in my recommendations.

    Also: https://youtu.be/yuoFsi2iIi0

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Watching nutjob conspiracy videos is a great pleasure of mine. Flat Earthers are so entertaining, second only to the mountains are the fossilized limbs of miles tall trees that once existed people.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They did exist, but there where only two. They shone and lit up the sky, the golden one named Laurelin and the silver one Telperion. From their light the gems called Silmarils where created and after the death of the trees by Ungoliant their last surviving life in the form of a fruit and a flower was put into the sky becoming what we now call the Sun and the Moon

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    I respect not being so politically tribalistic that you can recognize when a troll like him is right about something 10% of the time. That's rare on on the internet these days.

    But yeah, algorithms don't seem to get that kind of nuance.

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