for about a year, the 3rd video in my sidebar recommendation list is a video that is related to the topic, but generally only has <100 views. most of the time unter 20 views.
And it’s always the 3rd video
longer than a year in my case.
and yes it’s always the 3rd video
I was just about to comment about the 3rd video thing. It’s always in that same spot. Although for me sometimes it isn’t even related to the current video it’s (seemingly) random.
Yes, definitely I’ve noticed that. When they’re good, I really appreciate it. It lets me discover people I wouldn’t have heard of. Sometimes they’re just weird nonsense though, or just straight up bad.
Yes but I do think that’s good because it gives those YouTubers more of a chance to be seen
But it’s often garbage that wasn’t even meant for the general public to find.
YouTube doesn’t know that though. Nothing I’ve seen come up appears to have been not intended for viewing.
Yeah they definitely changed something. I’ve been getting those a lot over the past week or so.
I’ve had this, too. Sometimes the videos are quite cool, but most of the time they’re irrelevant or poorly made
Yes and it feels subjectively to be connected to generally more rigours testing / recommendations specifically in the way that nowadays YouTube is much faster to get me recommended channels that are a little further away but still close to the stuff I’m already watching.
Unfortunately that’s true if I watch good video essays or effin vtuber clips so…
Yep! Been seeing a lot of channels with less than 1000 subscribers.
Finally someone else noticed. I thought I was going crazy
Yeah, it gets weird ngl.
Yeah, and I found a channel called the Bread Circus a while back as a result. Really great Star Wars lore stuff for those interested: https://youtube.com/@thebreadcircus?si=fc2KNTkKh5oNNEVz
Yes, and I usually click out of curiosity further reinforcing the algorithm.
Yes
I almost never have any of the experiences with YouTube’s recommendations that I constantly see others talking about. It seems pretty damn good at finding things similar to things I’ve watched to completion and/or liked. Like to the point that it’s scary weird how close the content is as well as how similarly the hosts sound/look. The only thing I dislike about what it shows me is that it never actually notifies me of new videos from channels I am subscribed to and have the notifications enabled for. I almost always end up just finding those on the recommended feed list hours or days after the upload.
Got fed up with youtube algorithm shenanigans among other things and am just sticking to newpipe.
Wow that totally should have been called NewTube
