I find that every time I go to YouTube's homepage to look at the recommendations, I'm really just bored and expecting them to feed me something of low long term

I find that every time I go to YouTube's homepage to look at the recommendations, I'm really just bored and expecting them to feed me something of low long term value that catches my attention for a split second with the YouTube face or something, and it doesn't particularly matter what it is so long as it's "interesting" in that vague superficial sense. This is in contrast to when I use YouTube as a library of videos that I walk up to in order to look something up in that I want to know about. Now even when it's some guy's hand made animation they did in college, I feel kind of guilty that the only reason I cared to see it was because YouTube gave it to me, and also that I didn't know what I was looking for to begin with so I essentially went "well, that will have to do." Maybe that will work for keeping me off YouTube until I start believing that I have absolutely nothing better to do with my time again.