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
everybody on YT is just two wrong turns away from being offered the entrypoint to one of a million fascist rabbit holes, even when your recs are curated so carefully that they are missing any reactionary content and AI slop on most days
i still get some d*stiny (streamer not game) clip channels every few months even though i hit not intrested and dont reccomend this channel every time, i assume this is mostly because i watch hasan stuff occasionally and i think ive watched a vid from a destiny orbiter before
yeah that’s a thing the algorhithm absolutely does, trying to drag you into drama and controversies around content you like. i also get clout chaser reaction content fostering drama with my subscriptions on a semi-regular basis, oh and every time there’s a mayor election coming up i get flooded with recommendations for detrans content for a few weeks.