In my experience the algorithm simply recommends similar content to what you watch based on your viewing history. If you watch enough football videos then soon

In my experience the algorithm simply recommends similar content to what you watch based on your viewing history. If you watch enough football videos then soon your entire frontpage will be football. There's a vast amount of high quality content on YouTube. What is not present are high production values. But that's fine really. In the end, production values are not important, it's the story you have to tell that matters.