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Whenever i search for some somewhat obscure videos, like for an uncommon bass guitar or a highly regional dish, i get recommended horrible videos because the algo gets bored or gives up? I dunno. I was just looking a sound sample for an Ibanez bass guitar from 1974, i didn't need to see the thumbnail for a youtube short of some guy cutting his face off. No thank you.
When I look up obscure stuff it just spits out right-wing outrage channels complaining a out wokeness and the like.
It always shows up as a random playlist, too. No idea what would prompt it.
I think that the algo works by spotting correlation patterns in a "people who watched x also watched y" kind of way, so if you're looking at something really obscure, small aberrations and maybe even individual histories can distort the resulting recommendations because it just has fewer accounts to pull from. Just speculation.
Yeah I wish I knew why it does that. I know if you just put in gibberish sometimes it comes back with like beheading thumbnails.
It's even more annoying because it's like, i got tired of people shoving these videos in my face 15 years ago, i don't need my own computer to be doing it too.