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Paratroopa1 posted...

For some reason, about two years ago, Youtube sent me down a chess rabbit hole. You know that thing Youtube does, where you watch like just *one* video on a topic that's slightly outside of your usual watching habits, and Youtube goes, alright, time to pull up the entire catalog of things related to this and see what gets clicks? Yeah, I don't know which chess video it was that I watched that caused it, but Youtube went 'aha, chess, she's into chess now' and decided ALL of my recommended videos were going to be chess for a bit. To be fair, it worked. I don't really know why I got interested in chess - I don't really play. Not more than anyone else does anyway, I obviously know HOW to play chess and I understand the basic principles of how not to play the shittiest possible chess, but that's about it. But watching lectures about famous chess games and how to play better chess was really interesting to me anyway, and watching them made me feel like I knew something about chess and like maybe I could even learn how to play it well one day.

I have had this exact experience at least twice now.