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A fantastic video from Matt, as usual.

Yet another data point on why nobody should be wasting a second watching Mr Beast content. Complete algorithmically optimized garbage.

I recall Mr Beast showing up in a Colin Furze video for a few minutes and Mr Beast was very clearly incapable of being a normal person. He was obviously out of place, being in full makeup and styled, and couldn't seem to be bothered to actually engage or express real interest in the subject. I think the guy has replaced his real persona with some manifestation of the YouTube algorithm. If he's not actively making money, he's just a shell.

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Luckily the recommendation system does work to some extent. I'm glad I don't get to see any of that stuff on my youtube. Opening the front page in a private view is a scary place of hyper-optimised drama and attention seeking.

It's scary imagining people getting sucked into that :/

If you turn off you watch history in account settings, then youtube.com is just a passive-aggressive black screen telling you to turn it back on. It’s beautiful.

When you click over to subscriptions, you see only the stuff that you subscribed to, and nothing else.

Recommendations on a video are based on you subscriptions and the current video, and nothing else.

I could never go back.

Fully agreed.

The day youtube disables the "turn watch history off," is the day I'll stop using youtube.

I, too, could never go back.

This is basically what I do in NewPipe! Just a good ol' chronological list of my subscriptions, nothing else. Ahh if only everything could be this 2006...

> Opening the front page in a private view is a scary place of hyper-optimised drama and attention seeking.

Huh? Opening the front page of youtube in a private view (with no existing youtube history) shows you a completely blank page.

The blank page where it asks you to enter a search? This is a recent change I think. I want to say the last year or 2.

This must have changed at some point. It used to show popular videos in a private window.

You can still get a glimpse of what is out there by watching a specific video in a private window and looking at the recommendations.

It used to be very good, but now the personalized recommendations kind of suck. Seems like they enormously regressed, and basically do the 2009 move of just shoving the last type of video you watched in your face 37 times.

ahhh and i thought it was just me. cancelled my subscription and figured YT was just not caring anymore as a way to drag me back.

nah turns out it sucks for everyone.

Mr Beast not looking like a normal person next to Colin Furze is impressive.

That guy is so over the top that I cannot bear watching his videos, despite them theoretically being exactly up my alley. I like tinkering videos, I like his ideas, and the high-quality results, but I hate his mannerisms.

Every time see Mr Beast (I don't watch any of his stuff, just accidentally see promos on Prime sometimes), he reminds me of Homer Simpson's forced smile in the Simpsons' espiode "Re-Nedufication" [0].

[0]: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c8/84/8e/c8848e81afa88a42bd4d...

That Colin Furze cameo was so weird.

From what I can tell, based on an excerpt of an interview with Colin, Mr Beast had a bunker-related video and visited Colin's bunker. As a viewer of Colin's channel and not Mr Beast, it seemed very strange, but makes more sense if there was a more substantial collaboration taking place in a different video stream.

They somehow got him doing a cameo on this upcoming Survivor season and it's going to be terrible.

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