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Stop looking at thirsty girls on the gram then. In my experience it shows you more of what you look at.

JD557 3y ago
As a very casual Instagram user, I had a similar experience to the parent comment (not so much now). From what I can tell, this is the way Instagram recommendations treat cold start users. It was only when I started liking stuff that they went away.
dividedbyzero 3y ago
It's showing me a lot of luxury handbag influencers that obviously target a very different demographic. I'm absolutely sure I never looked for anything like that (I follow mostly science/scientist accounts and comics and I'm male). I also keep getting ads for commercial pilot insurance and I'm definitely not in that demographic either. Instagram's recommendation model seems to work well if you fit a common categorization well (women interested in luxury handbags perhaps), and utterly break down when you don't. I'm a software engineer, I don't need specialty carts to move Boeing aircraft engines.
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kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
Thirstbait is the default for these companies. I don't access YouTube with any Google cookies so their profiling is suppressed. They periodically load up their front page with T&A content despite never having a personal history of clicking on such content.
- datavirtue 3y ago
  Confirmed. I tried tiktok but was flooded with 3/4 naked teenage girls before I could do anything on the platform. It's like they ignored my onboarding preferences completely and just said here...she so thirsty.
fennecfoxy 3y ago
No, it just shows what your "demographic" mostly wants. And unfortunately for me as a gay man, the average straight man thirsts after scantily clad chicks on insta etc, even if they have to demean and debase themselves for a crumb of attention. Google's getting wiser tho, I went from getting insta thirst ads to getting anime weaboo girl ads, to getting half naked dragon girl ads, until finally I recently got advertised some gay furry stuff. Nice.
- datavirtue 3y ago
  Talk to us about these half naked dragon girls...
  - fennecfoxy 3y ago
    Ahaha, well I'm pretty sure it was for some heavily monetised crapware with art that you can pretty much find on e6 anyways. That said, chatgpt is pretty decent at role playing, if you know how to trick it into it (still actually not that hard). It's an interesting topic though; some people are resistant to playing that sort of "game" with it, even though those people are fine with in-game romances such as those in Mass Effect and Baldur's Gate.
- Slava_Propanei 3y ago
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valianteffort 3y ago
Instagram thought I was a black women for the longest time, and was serving me content geared toward black women. I have never posted, liked a post, and follow family exclusively. I keep clicking the "not interested" option but it hasn't changed anything. It was strange but comforting to know Meta doesn't have shit on me.

As a very casual Instagram user, I had a similar experience to the parent comment (not so much now). From what I can tell, this is the way Instagram recommendations treat cold start users. It was only when I started liking stuff that they went away.

dividedbyzero 3y ago

It's showing me a lot of luxury handbag influencers that obviously target a very different demographic. I'm absolutely sure I never looked for anything like that (I follow mostly science/scientist accounts and comics and I'm male). I also keep getting ads for commercial pilot insurance and I'm definitely not in that demographic either. Instagram's recommendation model seems to work well if you fit a common categorization well (women interested in luxury handbags perhaps), and utterly break down when you don't. I'm a software engineer, I don't need specialty carts to move Boeing aircraft engines.

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kevin_thibedeau 3y ago

Thirstbait is the default for these companies. I don't access YouTube with any Google cookies so their profiling is suppressed. They periodically load up their front page with T&A content despite never having a personal history of clicking on such content.

datavirtue 3y ago
Confirmed. I tried tiktok but was flooded with 3/4 naked teenage girls before I could do anything on the platform. It's like they ignored my onboarding preferences completely and just said here...she so thirsty.

fennecfoxy 3y ago

No, it just shows what your "demographic" mostly wants. And unfortunately for me as a gay man, the average straight man thirsts after scantily clad chicks on insta etc, even if they have to demean and debase themselves for a crumb of attention. Google's getting wiser tho, I went from getting insta thirst ads to getting anime weaboo girl ads, to getting half naked dragon girl ads, until finally I recently got advertised some gay furry stuff. Nice.

datavirtue 3y ago
Talk to us about these half naked dragon girls...
- fennecfoxy 3y ago
  Ahaha, well I'm pretty sure it was for some heavily monetised crapware with art that you can pretty much find on e6 anyways. That said, chatgpt is pretty decent at role playing, if you know how to trick it into it (still actually not that hard). It's an interesting topic though; some people are resistant to playing that sort of "game" with it, even though those people are fine with in-game romances such as those in Mass Effect and Baldur's Gate.
Slava_Propanei 3y ago
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valianteffort 3y ago

Instagram thought I was a black women for the longest time, and was serving me content geared toward black women. I have never posted, liked a post, and follow family exclusively. I keep clicking the "not interested" option but it hasn't changed anything. It was strange but comforting to know Meta doesn't have shit on me.