What I Hate About YouTube
or Why I Quit Facebook
Algorithms, man. They can be brutally stupid. This video is really interesting. It features three intelligent men having a deep conversation about important topics for nearly three hours. I really enjoyed watching it, and it challenged some of my strongly held beliefs. HOWEVER, two of these men are outspokenly critical of "SJW" politics on college campuses, which have made them unwitting heroes of anti-feminist troglodytes and their ilk. Since YouTube reduces me to a statistic, my suggested video list will now be filled with hateful rants by vapid, sneering MRAs, "Anti-SJWs", and other forms of swamp life because, hey, if I watch a video that they like, I must be just like them, right?
It's the same on Facebook. These algorithms force one into an ever-tightening feedback spiral that not only hides new ideas from the user, but actively discourages them from seeking them out for fear of poisoning their feeds. I watched this video, but I have, many times, passed interesting looking content over because I was afraid on tainting my suggested videos with odious garbage. Because I allowed myself to indulge in this small bit of intellectual curiosity, I'll have to spend days watching nothing but videos are physics and tropical fish before things go back to normal, and even then, YouTube will try slipping in a few "red pill" and "SJW takedown" videos, just in case. Fug.
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