Current Events > Well I discovered an unethical side of youtube that I wish I hadn't now.

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I guess youtube figured out that I like 1) athletics and 2) thirst traps so put those two things together. I started to get served videos of like, athletes who happen to be hot. Remember that pole vaulter on the internet from I dunno, 10 years ago? Stuff like that. The comments are always the same. They have 3 entire jokes. "Men of culture, we meet again". "Wonderful athlete, I will continue to stand behind her". Or it's a video of a long jump and the comment is "Best game of tennis I've seen so far". This seemed pretty harmless if a bit pathetic so far.

Just now though apparently I moved up to the next creep tier in the algorithm because now I'm finding youtube channels that are literally dedicated to this, going as far as to actually pay cameramen to go out and shoot this footage under the guise of filming sports. It's always somewhere in Russia or eastern europe, and it's literally just them focused on women's asses as they walk around after their high jump or whatever.

There appears to be some unsaid agreement between the channel creators and the commenters that they all at least pretend this is still about athletics, but it's really not. But you can't report it because what do you say?

You haven't seen the aninal abuse shorts yet I take it. That's 1000x worse.

C_Pain posted...

You haven't seen the aninal abuse shorts yet I take it. That's 1000x worse.

oh no

I'm not sure I even want to know

This is why I disabled YouTube history, tbh. I don't usually get weird things like this. Just channels I'm subscribed to or similar to those channels in my experience.

There's some rly fucked up things on shorts. I've noticed there's a lot less moderation it seems.

C_Pain posted...

You haven't seen the aninal abuse shorts yet I take it. That's 1000x worse.

Yeah be thankful OP if you've never come across these. It starts with cute animal videos & then slowly derails into madness

This is why I only view video game trailers with YouTube logged in so that I only get recommended video game related things. Anytime someone links to a youtube video on here, I right click it to open it in a private browser. If it's one of those stupid videos that make you login to verify age, I'll either not watch it, or delete it out of my history immediately after watching.

Once again, Youtube recommendations are based on your CURRENT watch history. Just delete stuff that you don't want to see more of, and they'll stop showing up.

Pretty sure pole vaulting as porn has been the primary use of pole vaulting footage for like, a decade. It's also just the tip of the iceberg. Those long, seemingly random playlists with word salad titles can hide some nefarious shit.

Lucky you. I somehow got Pregnant Spiderman Drowns in Quicksand in my algorithm

I just get cats and Dylan Hollis in my youtube shorts

That's why when people link weird YouTube videos, I open that in a private browsing tab, so it won't connect that to my actual account lol.

my algorithm is a mix of politics and vtubers

That's the thing about YouTube, you watch one video and suddenly it thinks you want to watch nothing but that kind of video.

C_Pain posted...

You haven't seen the aninal abuse shorts yet I take it. That's 1000x worse.

stumbled on a few of those. featured baby capuchin or macaque monkeys getting hurt :(

Hey, you like cute athletes? Here's Carmen Schafer, from the Swiss Olympic women's curling team.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bc39e4f5.jpg

Dont ever sign in on websites if you dont have to

DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...

Hey, you like cute athletes? Here's Carmen Schafer, from the Swiss Olympic women's curling team.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bc39e4f5.jpg

This reminds me, speed skaters also have incredible asses.