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Taking off my paranoid "youtube hates my side" hat for a moment, the only mechanism by which I can imagine a neutral algorithm would end up displaying this sort
by DarkWiiPlayer 4y ago
Taking off my paranoid "youtube hates my side" hat for a moment, the only mechanism by which I can imagine a neutral algorithm would end up displaying this sort of behaviour would be if it learned that users consuming conservative media are more likely to be pulled into a rabbit hole, or that conservative videos are more likely to pull users into a rabbit hole (or, of course, a combination of the two).
Having watched a good amount of videos from both political sides, this doesn't seem the least bit surprising.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoOr people of the opposite ideology love viewing rage porn to get their fix of righteous indignation. This creates a link between videos that align with their preferred ideology and those of the opposite viewpoint that gets recommended to others with similar views.
- DarkWiiPlayer 4y agoDunno. I'm of said opposite ideology and whenever I mention how I watch anything conservative, I almost always get a surprised response like "why would you watch that crap?" So at least from my personal filter bubble, it doesn't seem like there's too much of a tendency to rage-watch conservative content just to hate on it. And while I don't think conservatives spend that much time hate-watching leaft-leaning content either, they definitely do a fair amount of hate-raiding that should make an algorithm think that "conservative video about X" makes people also enjoy "video about X".