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What the hell is happening on Youtube lmao (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by BeanisBrain@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Okay so Youtube started recommending these videos in a genre called "HFY" or "Humanity Fuck Yeah" which, as far as I can tell, involves AI narrators reading AI-generated stories over slideshows of AI-generated images and the stories are all military sci-fi where humans are the bestest warriors the galaxy has ever seen and kill stupid evil caricature aliens 1000:1. Once in a while there's a story where an alien race does a massacre to humans which gives the humans an excuse to gloriously commit righteous genocide

Why is this a thing

Who asked for it

Who's watching it

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[–] emdash@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I only use YouTube either in a custom app or in a browser with no cookies. Everyone always asks me how I get a nice, empty homepage. Amazingly, people don't actually want to be bombarded with tons of bullshit!

I highly recommend the Tubular app on Android. It lets you have a "subscription" list without an account, and you can mix YouTube subscriptions with PeerTube ones. It also has SponsorBlock built in.

I'm lucky because the majority of the creators I like now have a PeerTube mirror feed, so I don't have to deal with YouTube's terrible practices anymore.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Solid suggestions thanks, but I don't want him to watch on a phone. We watch videos together on my laptop, or I learn my vocabs in parallel.

I manage the selection via bookmarks and we do search for stuff he likes on youtube occasionally but I get to select which video we then watch.

[–] emdash@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

It's more of a general recommendation for the readers :)