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I think it's just pretty hard to recommend things outside of what they know you like. You can log off and look at what's popular on your country's front page.

• wruza 2y ago
  Won’t work without trying. It wasn’t hard 10-15 years ago when it was at its peak. I suspect all it did was relaxing walk rules and simply presenting more diverse selection, which optimizes for surfing but deoptimizes for some modal group. I also remember right-bar surfing techniques that don’t work anymore. Front page is distilled garbage to me.
  • tux3 2y ago
    Part of it is also the creators optimizing for what the suggestion algorithm rewards. If you don't like the front page, you're looking for a needle in a haystack, because creators are rewarded very heavily for making the kind of content that lands on the front page and gets mass amounts of views. Youtube doesn't have much of an incentive to show things that are not either popular in general, or that already worked on you in the past. There are some people that care strongly about that (me included), but it's a very small minority. If the A/B test says distilled garbage is what hijacks the dopamine center the best, then you will be fed the A/B juice. And on average, people in your cohort will like it.
  • johnisgood 2y ago
    I remember the right-bar surfing, too, when you got new or related / relevant videos.
• Szpadel 2y ago
  I seen multiple creators performing A/B tests on clickbait titles/thumbnails/pokatchu faces and everywhere conclusion was the same: it's so effective for their bottom line that even when they are not comfortable with it, they cannot afford to not do it.