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I'm interested in only a handful of stereotypically STEM-adjacent topics. Out of 176 YouTube subscriptions, 2 of these are in my home language. And they are bot

I'm interested in only a handful of stereotypically STEM-adjacent topics. Out of 176 YouTube subscriptions, 2 of these are in my home language. And they are both musicians (= non-verbal content). Content dried up on 2 more that I've already unsubscribed from. I'm using NewPipe instead of the official UI, so I know for a fact this stuff isn't being advertised at me. I pick my own feeds, and all the best content is English-based.

numpad0 1y ago
per [0]: > Put differently, English-language videos comprised just 17% of the videos that were published by popular channels during the week, but they received 28% of all of the ... or [1]: > Of the top 250 YouTube channels, 66% of the content is in English, 15% in Spanish, 7% in Portuguese, ... There's quite a distance between "all the best content in STEM field and on YouTube is in English" and "all the content is in English" and a lot of qualifiers gets in there. 0: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/07/25/popular-youtube-channels-produced-a-vast-amount-of-content-much-of-it-in-languages-other-than-english/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/07/25/popular-yout... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet