Like others here I am also disappointed by the youtube recommended videos. So I was investigating building a better recommender myself. I was actually searching

Like others here I am also disappointed by the youtube recommended videos. So I was investigating building a better recommender myself. I was actually searching for how the youtube recommender works yesterday but could only find the 2010 paper. Now I am starting to believe that it is not the recommender that is the problem. It is that youtube consists of 99% low quality videos.