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Definite green flag for the video. Red flag for the girl, because who the fuck asks about that?

It isn't a good test, because YouTube algorithms are shitty. For example, I disagree with Ben Shapiro probably 90% of the time and think he's an odious troll, but because I watched him in a debate once, YT pushed videos of him for months after.

O no

For those that don't know this actually could have happened. The idea of Big Bird being on the Challenger was floated around by the big wigs.

I genuinely don't know how a potential date would react to this lol

I would probably counter with "you wanna see my subscriptions instead? cuz I don't fucks with no recommendations" and then she'd just walk away because she probably wasn't even talking to me in the first place

I got an email from Youtube about 11 years ago that simply said: "the algorithm has abandoned you."

And now whenever I go there all I get is a weird orange and green moire pattern.

I get her point but that's kinda cringy to say out loud

My youtube recs would mostly just out me as a huge fucking nerd who's into cooking, I think it may be a rare W.

Joke's on them; I disabled history a long time ago, so YouTube can't recommend things to me now.

Fuck that. I’ve already got a hard enough time dating while not using Instagram and Facebook. Shits gone too far. I fall asleep every night to Battlefield series of WW2 documentaries

My YT recommendations are full of game lore and Warhammer 40K. I don't care about either, but Youtube really, really wants me to.

I get to play this YouTube game with students every time me or one of them play a clip as part of a presentation, assuming we're logged in (and we often are, as students and myself use Google Drive).

For me, I simply reveal my love of video games (and since having kids, slews of kid music) but for them it's a wild mix of ASMR, make up videos, musical tastes, and so on. Nothing too crazy yet, but its only a matter of time.

I'm grateful I at least have the foresight to use burner accounts for things like watching cringy movies (I listen to podcasts that make fun of them, so that's a thing). It'd be pretty funny if something like Pandemic 3 popped up in my feed, haha.

Bullet dodged.

I have a bunch of Soulsborne videos and stuff about the X-Men. My wife already knows this and doesn’t care. LOL

I'd smash

Hypothetical:

The app isn't installed on my phone so they go to browser instead, page takes a moment to load because of VPN, YT either asks to log in or it asks to turn on watch history in order to get recommendations.

I know from the get-go I'm either getting rated really really highly or really low, or that the reviewer will be dumbfounded. What do you think?

To fight ones enemies one must know ones enemies.

I rarely watch youtube, but got this.

Actual no joke second video rec in my feed:

So he's a keeper, then

Little Joel, Veritasium, Vaush, a perfect representation of me as a person

Hope she likes Pete Seeger, bread tube, and educational videos, because if she doesn’t I can do better

That flag has no color. It's a gigantic question mark somehow devoid of everything but the question.