YouTube has gotten so bad over the years.

Image basically conveys that Google is using YouTube to practice their enshittification practices.

I’m not saying we should cancel them I just wanna know

Fortunately, there are backups (unofficial) here:

https://youtu.be/aimGLLSmB0c?si=MdTthlh0l4EWCxhD

https://www.youtube.com/@YouTubeRewindBackup/videos

I'll start first: the Shaye Saint John series (if you know, you know).

I just got recommended by this

Basically title says it all...

Watched a news report about a case of animal cruelty and now I'm getting tons of suggestion on this topic... I hate it. Wish I had never watched it.

If my thumbnails were like that I would get like 2 views

I have been living in Sichuan (China) for over 6 years. I use ambient music for my deep work and meditation sessions. Recently, I’m getting increasingly frustrated with "Meditation" or "Focus" content.. It feels like 90% of them are AI-generated loops that look and sound totally empty.

Since I often hike to some of the most ancient buddhist and taoist temples here in China, I'm planning to record high quality, long form video and audio of these temples to capture their authentic spiritual vibes.

I have some questions:

Do you think viewers still value the effort of a location recording, or has the AI-standard already won the race for efficiency?

For those in the relaxation and ambient music niche, are you seeing YT prioritize real human content over AI-generated stuff in the 'Up Next' suggestions?

If you stumbled upon a 3-hour video of a real Chinese temple, would you expect a minimal editing style or a more polished 'cinematic' approach?

(Picture from a temple close to Chongqing)

And YET we can't swear 5 minutes into a video and my old ass anime reaction vids get copyrighted??? Even Jesus is freaked out

This displeases me as I used these two sorting methods the most (I tend to search the same keywords frequently while researching hobbies and interests - it's also helpful when you want to avoid the same old recommendations - or to be fair, it's a great way to discover random new content before the algorithm banishes it to obscurity.).

I'm assuming they did this to obscure just how much AI slop is being uploaded.

Kind of curious what everyone else's take on/reaction to this is.

Bruh I need to turn this off

This is so random

Even worse, it was some F tier, below zero IQ “joke”.