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How Greed Ruined Gaming
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It’s been so tiring clicking through the Do Not Recommend option on every single channel mentioning Sweet Baby as the new flat earth conspiracy.
Man, I have to do this also. No idea why the algorithm doesn't pick up on me not wanting to watch some idiot ranting about how videogames are woke or whatever.
Well, there's the fact that outrage seems to drive more activity than other types of content. YouTube sees it as a more profitable option to advertise a Very Angry Gamer(tm) to you, even if you aren't interested. I guess they assume that you'll find something to watch anyhow, but if they will profit even more of they can hook you into the outrage machine.
Then there's my personal hypothesis that in order to enable this, YouTube's algorithm weights your demographics, subscriptions, and viewing history much more heavily than your manual inputs.