In the UK, we have a tax-funded broadcaster with a royal charter called 'BBC News' and a look at its online content is essentially a new level of woketopia. There's mountains and valleys of clickbait littered everywhere and its impartiality stance is evidently non-existent.
If I had to choose, I would rather pay for YouTube Premium or Netflix with all their junk than look at the hot garbage that is paid with a TV License to the BBC.
Perhaps you are seeing some A/B testing? Hopefully it will not stick around.
Been like this for a month or two.
I think the algos must really only work on the thinnest of the most popular videos... the daily dramas of you tubers with shocked faces. Or the algos heavily compensate for engagement and monetization and there’s no marketable middle tale. But if that’s the best YouTube can do with the data they have, I can’t wait for a disruption that isn’t exclusively the province of “the youth”..
/leaving the lawn...
I didn't even know who Dave Grohl was.
It turns out he was the drummer for Nirvana, and the founder of the Foo Fighters. I've heard of both bands, but have never purposefully listened to either of them.
As far as I can figure out, someone I know posted on Facebook a video of Grohl bringing a kid from the audience on stage to play guitar [1]
I watched it, and Google apparently decided from that single viewing of one video that for the next several weeks Grohl was the most important topic in the world to me.