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Why does YouTube feel completely devoid of content? (clarification in body) (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Normally, I use YouTube very little (watch a couple videos a month). However, I've been in bed with an injury for some time now, which has led me to watch quite a bit of YouTube. The thing is, I subscribe to a small handfull of channels that I enjoy content from, but after a relatively short time I had watched pretty much all the new content from those channels.

Now, I would expect that the YouTube algorithm, which is supposedly designed by competent people to get me to stick around, would be able to suggest some decent content to me based on my subscriptions. However, the past week, I've opened YouTube only to find the same old videos being suggested over and over. Even worse: Whenever there's something interesting-looking from a channel I don't recognise, it always turns out to be some shitty AI voice over some generic animations or footage.

I know for a fact that thousands of hours of content are created on YouTube daily, but it genuinely feels like there are maybe five creators out there that are making anything worth watching. It's either that, or the YouTube algorithm is just complete crap at suggesting creators that are in any way similar to what I'm already subscribing to.

What's going on here? Why does it seem like there's no real content out there?

As a "funny" side note: What's with the "aggressively American" AI narrator-voice? I've heard it before, but thought it was some dude until I realised it's the same voice in a bunch of unrelated videos. It reminds me of the Discovery-channel "action-narrator"-voice from back in the day, but now it's showing up in all kinds of crap videos.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you only subscribe to a handful of channels and only watch a couple videos a month, you're not really giving it much data to work with.

Also use the "Don't recommend channel" and similar feedback options. I did this two a handful of AI channels and have never gotten a suggestion for them since. Other than that, you have just have to manually find some more content till the algorithm catches up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I've thought of that, but would have thought the algorithm quickly caught up the past weeks when I've been watching several videos a day. Then again, I've been bored out of my mind watching whatever, so I've probably not given it much to work with now either, essentially telling it that I'll keep scrolling and clicking stuff for quite some time before I leave, no matter what it throws at me...

I'll try using the "Do not recommend" button more and see if things improve.