Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole
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The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    271·
    1 year ago

    Weirdly, YouTube’s algo propelled me down the Pinko-commie anarcho-socialist boy-we-suck-at-democracy rabbit hole. I was an avid BreadTuber long before I ever heard the name BreadTube.

    • 31337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, it started for me during Covid when I felt like I needed long-form podcasts/streamers in the background for noise while working from home. I think my progression was from The Worst Year Ever -> Chapo Trap House -> It Could Happen Here -> PhilosphyTube -> Contrapoints -> Vaush. TBF, I’ve been a leftist before Youtube existed, probably starting with Chomsky, Einstein’s article, and random pirated documentaries.