You will never see a more disgusting place than YouTube. An algorithm that pushes the most disgusting content like gore and trauma and the comment section of even the most benign video will have some chud shitting on feminists or whatever with a million updoots. Absolute shithole of a content farm website.

[Sexism] I was just watching a wholesome video of a rooster protecting the flock from a hawk, and the highest comment was like “Hurr duurrr I bet this triggers feminists seeing hens run in fear while the rooster takes charge.”

Bruh, no, what is triggering is how illiterate misogynists are about the animal world. Imagine choosing hens as your proof that women are weak. Hens, the gender of chickens that also attack predators regularly. Hens, the gender of chickens that are where scientists came up with the term ‘Alpha’. Hens, the gender of chickens that can literally change their gender.

link because I’m not a lib, this person deserves bullying tbh but I doubt it’s worth wasting time on

And then, to top it all off, in the recommendeds was a thumbnail of a real picture of a squirrel gored up after being shot with a pellet gun, with the title “Watch this before YouTube deletes it” smuglord

So yeah, youtube is fucked up trash.

  • huh most of the youtube comment sections i actually look at are decent, and i don’t get recommended gore or rightwing shit.

    i’ve only clicked on trending by accident and i don’t watch shorts… i hear about stuff like elsagate or what OP is reporting but my account is pretty under control. like i used to watch a bunch of slay the spire videos and after clicking “don’t recommend channel” on three of them it stopped recommending them to me

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    I’m being a real boomer here, but facebook (and by extension Instagram) is easily the worst place on the internet for me. I can’t curate my content in any way and most of what I get on my feed is garbage mainstream “culture” war bullshit and libertarian pages. Like I get 20 different libertarian/right-wing posts recommended to me for every one leftest post. And I know I have high school/work acquaintances that are right wingers, but I know it can’t be significantly more than the average lib or leftists that I know…

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    Both suck, but redditers are uniquely smug in a way that makes every dumb thing they say a million times more insufferable. Anyone who adds ´fuck around and find out’ to the end of their racist screeds probs works for that army base that was voted most Reddit obsessed way back in the day.

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    Reddit is frustrating because it’s a site of people who think themselves to be intellectuals saying the stupidest shit. Youtube is full of people who know they aren’t intellectuals and don’t care. Combine that with organized commenting brigades and you have a right-wing cesspool. The type of people who comment usually have an axe to grind and will more likely be some kind of right-winger if they aren’t a stan of the Youtuber they’re watching.

    The comments on videos about the Israel-Palestine conflict have actually been better than Reddit’s from what I’ve seen.

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    But on YouTube you get so many weird comments like,

    “I don’t know who you are or where your from or your life, but don’t worry. Things will get better. We are connected by music in this beautiful world, and you have yet to sing your song. Peace”

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      I dunno, those comments feel super fake because they’re usually under videos that don’t feature ‘’’’’politics’’’’ (i.e. minorities, women) that might trigger the same commenters. Basically, anything that’s just white dudes playing the guitar.

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    I’m of the opposite opinion. I think Reddit is worse than Youtube. Youtube comments tends to stay on topic, for lack of a better word, while Reddit would always find ways to cram their reactionary bullshit. Youtube comments on a video about knitting would just be about knitting while Reddit comments on a Reddit post about knitting would somehow find ways to shoehorn how China is evil or various other US state department talking points. Plus, Youtube is a lot more international than Reddit, which is full of Anglos.

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      sometimes i wonder how the fuck those reddit comment threads devolve like that and then i remember the site is basically ran by the CIA and military intelligence

      it just seems so unnatural and weird especially for what’s generally thought of as a “hobby website/forum”

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      Redditors also think they’re smarter than everybody else, when in actual fact they might just be dumber, because there is enough information posted on Reddit by nerds and people qualified in their fields on mainstream subreddits, that the general redditor should know better.

      Case in point: Redditors on the formula one subreddit downvoting actual verified formula one engineers because they went against the Reddit narrative. Redditors on the soccer subreddit not knowing the basic rules of the game

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    YouTube comments are regularly Nazi-level shit on anything even remotely political. Reddit is like one tiny step above that and assuming your response doesn’t get deleted you can actually embarrass them potentially whereas libidinal drivel is the only thing that thrives on fashtube.

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    I now see that the big sites - reddit, “X” and YT are majorly astroturfing. I’ve seen a couple of good youtubers who had history degrees under their belt give up on the site as it doesnt like the holocaust stuff. Real history and science is being buried. The stuff that appeals to the algorithm tends to be the conspiracy junk, the fake news and the “free energy” claptrap. They are just breeding grounds for this shit

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    yeah it’s fucked - my trained profile is nice, has helped me find a bunch of interesting music recommendations. Then I open it not logged in and see the faces of Piers Morgan and Mr Beast spread across my screen like the wailing souls imprisoned in Hell

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    In the weeks after I got myself banned from twitter on purpose to force myself to quit getting into stupid internet arguments, I found myself arguing with people in YouTube comments instead. Out of the frying pan, into the Vietnam-era cancer burn pit

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    Feel like there’s a distinction between YouTube and the comments.

    “Looking like a YouTube comment section” has been a way nondescript cesspits of comment sections since like 2004, the actual videos you can get everything from chuds whining that Disney movies don’t uphold Roman archetypes but you can also get people in thigh high stocks role-playing in disco elysium.

    In summation YouTube is a land of contrasts.

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    I just can’t believe there’s actual human beings that waste time using YouTube as a forum of discourse, at some point it just has to be the project of some bored chuds creating racist ass chatbots endlessly spamming every video with some type of shit take.

    The algorithm is shit though and will, without a second, recommend the most heinous shit especially if you show any interest in politics (YouTube be like “oh you watch leftist videos like Second Thought? How bout some Jordan Peterson!!!”).

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      God forbid you watch anything even 2 degrees away from ww2 and it will have you watching vintage unionic nazi propaganda in like 3 seconds. Every time I get back into hoi4 I have to deal with that mess for months.

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    I think a lot of people here are blind to it because they spend so much time on it, but Twitter is fucking awful.

    I’ve never used it, but sometimes I click on links that are posted here, and my god it just seems fucking miserable.