This guy hacked the algorithm just to tell us how the algorithm sucks. He's a genius.

@SkyCloudSilence

10 ай бұрын

lol

@dexooh

10 ай бұрын

He was showing youtube logo a lot, maybe youtube machine learning picks it up and then marks it as "good video"

@ChatTheChad

10 ай бұрын

Hahaha I thought the same thing. He knows how whack KZread is so we'll, that he showed in our feeds and started with "you probably have no idea who I am and why my video was recommended to you" His right though, it's fantastic small channels are being recommended, I've said that to a few people. I reckon the algorithm is just so complex the code needs to be tweaked

@ddljunkygames7654

10 ай бұрын

Ikr? The other videos come not even close to this amount of views

@multishit6664

10 ай бұрын

he works for the shadow government

I want KZread to recognize that just because I engage with travel content, it doesn’t mean I no longer want to see video essays and cooking videos. It’s like the algorithm thinks you can’t have more than one interest at the same time.

@CaseyShontz

10 ай бұрын

Interesting, I thought it was just my watching habits that caused that effect because I do tend to focus on one thing at a time but maybe it’s a KZread thing too

@Star_Rattler

10 ай бұрын

XD for real, even autistic people (as I am) have more than just one single interest lol it's like i look up a single video about sleep ambiance and my whole feed now is just riddled with sleep bowls and meditation stuff like STOP bro omg. i watch an ann rearden video and all my stuff is now cooking. relax a little bit!

@whatwouldsallydo

10 ай бұрын

instagram has this issue too and it annoys the hell out of me

@Pink_Woz

10 ай бұрын

YES!! The only time I actually get the videos I want is if I'm on a channel dedicated to just one thing. 2 at the most. If you're interested in more than 1-2 things, KZread just stops working and video vomits at you.

@louiseb3146

10 ай бұрын

It's odd because I have so many interests and YT does recommend me a little of them all. But, unlike you, I can switch from space actuality to let's play on Nintendo games to video essay about sociology, or series review and analysis, back to space science and all of this within an hour or even less. So I do hope that YT gives me several recommendations, even of games I never heard about or about a science I haven't studied yet. Though, I admit I regularly have to actively search for the kind of content I feel like watching. It's only natural though, algorithms can't know what I have in mind right now. Lucky me!

I'm definitely experiencing this. It also seems like youtube's "memory" is getting bad; I have watched a large variety of content, predominately targeted towards young people. Recently, though, I've been watching a few embroidery and sewing videos. KZread seems to have forgotten everything about me and mistaken me for an elderly lady! a few videos out of the ordinary and know I can't find anything else I'm in to. And I'm getting ads for makeup that look good on wrinkly skin (so old people), even though I'm a teenager!

@kitKAT._

3 ай бұрын

Getting ads on wrinkly skin is CRAZY

@derrickthewhite1

3 ай бұрын

I've recently noticed youtube isn't tracking my Account and my Wife's separately... I'm getting her favorite channels recommended, and she's getting mine. Also, I get ads based on what she's been shopping for. Some people might think that's creepy, but I'm just annoyed at the usability impact: If I want to watch that stuff, I'll log in with my wife and we'll watch it together. Save the screen space!

My biggest beef right now is keeping the videos or programs I've watched reposted WITHOUT the red line under them to show I've already watched them !!! If it's within the last month I can usually remember I've watched them. I find it extremely frustrating and a waste of my time !!! As for watching YOUR video, I specifically watched it in hopes you would be a legit source of information and was not disappointed. I am 70 years old, consider myself computer literate, and watch a lot of videos on new trends, subject matter, and interest of the younger people to help me understand their generational culture and give me a better understanding of conversations I have with neighbor kids, great grand nephews/nieces, etc. I realize my age group isn't your target range, but your posts do help tremendously in understanding younger minds, their slang, abbreviations, etc. Thanks so much.

@sgtjonzo

Ай бұрын

you're a legend, thank you

@ivandeus

8 күн бұрын

Just go and delete your watch history. Algorithm will forget everything about you. You will start life from scratch 😊

Actually, I'm frustrated with KZread more for the opposite reason... it is VERY difficult to break out of any sort of echo chamber you've knowingly or unknowingly created for yourself.

@pieflower6419

10 ай бұрын

Agreed. I found a new interest, watched that and only that on KZread for a few weeks, and now I'm barely recommended anything else and literally have to search generic terms to find broader content.

@c.edwards4457

10 ай бұрын

Searches 1 video about a motorcycle. Now every short an recommended something with motorcycle

@ARCHIVED9610

10 ай бұрын

yes!!

@elmemearana

10 ай бұрын

​@Doomvega this kinda happens to me, sometimes lol

@rylie4122

10 ай бұрын

Me and smosh videos rn

One of my main issues with KZread more recently is that I'm scared to click on a random video that interests me, because then it will be all I'm recommended for weeks.

@MrCheswickMusic

7 ай бұрын

Ha ha, whatever you do, DO NOT click on a 'funny/cute animals' vid, or you'll be doomed for all eternity with vids of that topic ha ha

@Friend_2162

5 ай бұрын

That's why I had to create sub channel for music listening. Luckily it's so easy to switch subchannels by clicking top right corner.

@philipw5669

5 ай бұрын

Oh it's so true. . .

@Omnibushido-

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I searched fantasy music playlists for when I’m reading or going to sleep and now almost every video in my recommended is just that. Same with scam-baiting videos, I watch tons of other things but when I started getting back into them they were taking up my recommended after only watching a couple of them.

@sperrinwell-beingandyoga9224

5 ай бұрын

Add an account!

I have no idea why this was recommended but I agree. The search not letting me strictly search the subject is honestly infuriating and has our family thinking of cancel our KZread premium plan. KZread has been getting worse since around 2017, I remember they changed the home page and the way subscriptions work and how they show content. I am super sad, wish things would get back to the way they were when KZread was in its earlier years

This is only getting worse over time too. I feel like especially lately I've been spending more time scrolling on YT than watching videos. Getting the same recommendations, seeing things I've already watched (but without showing it??), and lately getting a lot of videos with a max of 100 views with bad quality content. I enjoy the low-stakes variety that comes with YT, I don't really like watching shows or movies as much. Not sure what to do at this point. (yes I searched this video cuz it was getting that bad and to make sure im not crazy)

@MikuHatsune159

2 ай бұрын

I feel the same way about this site now. I used to have real variety and it had helped me be more creative and learn more actively than I am now. I still love YT for content over any other platform but a lot of the good OG content is no longer correct or acceptable. Caused me to scroll for good videos, but it's a habit I have from years of being able to find new interesting content in a space where that doesn't even happen anymore. Like have you refreshed the page and it only rearranges the recommendations slightly? Honestly it's infuriating what it has become 😒

I have literally never seen this man before in my life but he's spitting straight fire facts.

@LittleMopeHead

10 ай бұрын

Same.

@mick.isnoth3re

10 ай бұрын

Fr

@BlackShiftification

10 ай бұрын

I am crazy though

@1mailpigeon1

10 ай бұрын

i never saw this man before, until KZread decided to put him on my front page as a recommended video. (I am thankful for it and watched a couple of his videos, it's interesting fun content, thanks KZread, you did something right for once👍🏻)

@TheBanana93

10 ай бұрын

The algorithm has summoned us all here and here we are.... is the algorithm god? (Pls don't respond like I am being serious)

I'm so tired of apps trying to be like other apps. I don't want shorts from KZread. I want KZread from KZread, if I want TikTok then I want TikTok. Keeping it separately encourages me to use each app MORE because they're DIFFERENT. I don't want to go everywhere and see the same thing. I'm glad I came across this video, this makes so much sense now.

@theprodigalson4003

10 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s annoying. It’s become especially cancerous this year and a bit and I just want to drop it all more than I ever have

@davidthedeaf

10 ай бұрын

Agreed. They are teenagers with identity crisis, and all wanting to become like each other when they are perfectly fine who they are.

@_98310

10 ай бұрын

but for the sake of storage, i think it's better for it to be all in one app...

@scaper8

10 ай бұрын

Therein lie the rub, though. You and I may want different apps for different things, but companies want you on their things forever. KZread wants you on KZread and nothing else (or, barring that, at least some other product owned by daddy Google). TikTok wants you only on TikTok. Facebook only on Facebook. Unfortunately, viewers and creators are diametrically opposed to companies on this front.

@panda42433

10 ай бұрын

exactly!

I actually searched why KZread is getting boring and I got your video, whatever points you mentioned are absolutely relatable and correct!

@rimshasheikh9935

Ай бұрын

Sammmmeww

@PreceptorLive

Ай бұрын

same.

Thank you so much for explaining this - I keep hitting „do not recommend“ on certain channels or „not interested“ when the video deals with a specific content I do not care for and yet, this action seems to have the opposite effect. There‘s only so many „restocking videos“ you need to watch in your existense as a Marine to start despairing about certain carriers of various diseases. I don‘t care how someone else cleans their bathroom, but it‘s still almost the only thing on my front page. The worst offender must have been a video a few days ago, where a young woman was trying to decide how to part her hair.

@user-ht1jg4qz3h

3 ай бұрын

oh god, yeah me to im so SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED MASHED THAT FUNCTIONS 😢😢😕😕

Explains why KZread has felt so bland to me lately. I open it, see a bunch of content I don’t really care about, and give up. It feels like a chore to watch KZread now more than ever. Not to even mention the terrible search function. All these content platforms keep sterilizing themselves to be more marketable and it’s ruining them. On the bright side, this social media apocalypse is making me want to pick up a book instead for once.

@JP-ve7or

10 ай бұрын

Choose the book. I'm trying too.

@effbar2400

10 ай бұрын

It's because you're not interested not some platform wide issue

@paulyvii

10 ай бұрын

The search function isn't even giving me results of the words I actually searched. I just get my recommended videos which have nothing to do with the search

@James.s

10 ай бұрын

Completely in the same place.

@FUEGOSTARR

10 ай бұрын

@@effbar2400it’s def a user wide problem if it isn’t a platform centered problem. But many people say these things so I don’t think it’s limited to tht individual

i thought i was crazy at first. now i know otherwise. im glad some small channels are recommended to me though cause i found two people who deserve way more support.

@hollanderson

10 ай бұрын

I've recently been recommended some travel videos from some aunties and picture collages from older folks, and honestly it's way better than what I was watching before 😂

@ofskittlez

10 ай бұрын

Crazy? I was crazy once.

@Icyy4406

10 ай бұрын

​@@ofskittlezCrazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. Rats make me crazy.

@user-bm5jo3gp9e

10 ай бұрын

They locked me in a rubber room. Rubber room with rats. Rats make me crazy

@hextraordinaire2347

10 ай бұрын

Fr, KZread's been recommending me some interesting channels recently. A couple of days ago it recommended me two gay furry let's players. Honestly, pretty good channel

I watch YT videos every day for hours and YES, this is a huge, annoying problem! As someone else said, I have to actively search, HARD, for content I have been watching for years. Just because someone watches one video on a new topic or from a new creator, DOES NOT MEAN THAT'S ALL THEY WANT TO WATCH GOING FORWARD FOREVER. UGH! Even though I am a big YT watcher and don't even have a Tiktok account, I've never even written a comment. This time I was compelled.

@Username_Invalid

3 ай бұрын

One tip I just discovered to put, "before:2022" or "after:date" followed by the search and it completely bypasses the recommendations and offer exactly what you want. For example my niche is "sim racing", I might search... before:2022 sim racing

Just got this pushed today. Never heard of you, but it did answer a question of "why is youtube burying the stuff I want and flooding me with crap?" I will now probably get flooded with other random crap I don't want.

@user-ht1jg4qz3h

3 ай бұрын

yep me too, wtf is this guy,?? and why did he end up on my feed, lol😅😅😂😂

I completely agree. KZread has become constraining and instead of feeling free to explore content I’m actually interested in, I’m seeing only a small selection of what KZread thinks I like. Very annoying.

@victorsamsung2921

9 ай бұрын

Not to forget, getting the MSM shoved in your face, like with videos from CNN, NBC, FOX or HuffPo getting pushed on top, but the *independent* voices and independent smaller news channels getting almost *no* fraction or exposure when searching.

@candaniel

9 ай бұрын

@@eternity8811 Did you even watch the video..? The search results suck

@dalelerette206

9 ай бұрын

It seems so strange that KZread does not allow each person to determine their own path. I suspect the constraints of KZread cannot handle the full accommodation of everyone being free to choose their own path. KZread search algorithm would probably greatly break down.

@MrMarinus18

9 ай бұрын

It's why I think giving capitalists unchecked power over such an important piece of media is a really bad idea. I think there should be government regulations by the EU and US to set standards, improve transparancy and maybe combat some of the bad incentives. The important thing though is that they need to be regulations for youtube, not for youtube users.

@gamerboyofficalyt

9 ай бұрын

it's true you try to find one thing and then it gives a million other things not even relevant to what you're trying to find

I thought it was just me, because I always click them out of curiosity. I figured it just knew I had that behavior, not that it was doing this for everyone.

@caspermadlener4191

10 ай бұрын

I have the same curiosity towards these random videos, and I think the same hold for most people. But a lot of videos about a "niche", aren't designed with new viewers in mind, so I usually click away within a minute.

@TisOsha

10 ай бұрын

same dude, so tired ofa b1 droid singing being recommended to me, i dont care at all mate

@SomeDudeCauseYes

10 ай бұрын

Yea i have corusiority so i click random vids

@wato.o

10 ай бұрын

wsg mogswamp

@flamingaish

10 ай бұрын

same here

It's videos like this that makes me happy KZread offers me random videos from people I have never heard of before.

1.Yes, this video randomly on my page 2.Yes, somehow, my favorite creators and niche ...gone? Only very few 3.The best algo is KZread music apps on Android, from "maybe i just pick 3"...end up 50 my fav bands/genres selected. 4.New algo mimic TT, where "everyone have a chance to be on fyp", this is better for small creators, they have a chance to compete and might gain interest from different demography.

I knew I wasn't crazy and finding something interesting in KZread was being a massive struggle

@HOLLASOUNDS

10 ай бұрын

This Gentleman man says He wants to be suggested to people in the same space as him. For Me if want to find small or new music production channels just do targeted search select Release date as Today, and there you go you will find every new producer's channel that exists. I think people need to use there brains.

Personally the worst aspect of it for me is that sometimes you’ll find one of these random videos interesting so you watch that one video and then suddenly for ages the algorithm thinks that niche is your favourite thing and will fill your entire page with similar videos even if you never click on them and aren’t still interested in the subjects or content types

@andrewhkim

10 ай бұрын

Yea it’s usually viral type videos that almost anyone would be curious about. But it’s like rubbernecking an accident.. of course you want to look, but realize that if you force yourself to look forward, you’ll waste less time on something irrelevant. All you can do now is delete it from your watch history

@lh776

10 ай бұрын

yeah i've had the same issue at times

@KimberlyLetsGo

10 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@L1ght_7

10 ай бұрын

A few days ago, I watched a KZreadr who was reviewing 3 games in my favorite video game franchise across 3 separate videos. I didn’t watch any other videos by this KZreadr, and I was only interested in watching them because they were about a niche game franchise that I love. Yesterday I counted ELEVEN videos in a row unrelated to that franchise by that same creator in my recommended videos on the side of another video completely unrelated to that creator or that game franchise. I would understand if it was one or two videos spread out to try to gauge if my interest in that channel is more than just that one game franchise, but 11 videos in a row is insane. KZread really needs to fix their algorithm…

@justathumb

10 ай бұрын

what's particularly baffling and distressing to me, is that i can manually select videos i DON'T want youtube to show me, submitting the reason "I DONT LIKE THIS VIDEO" and i KEEP getting videos on the same topic! (ie serial child killer news pieces). it's legit traumatising to see those headlines. yet creators can't say certain generic words or they get demonetized. their algorithms are fucking appalling.

I love video essays, multi hour long videos, outlandish movie and show theories, but I haven't been getting any of those. No video essays, longest videos cap at 22 minutes, and no theories. You are the first video in weeks that actually caught my interest and held my attention the entire video, and I am so greatful! Glad I'm not crazy, and glad I found you

i actually searched up this video, im doing an essay about how youtube is falling off, and searching for this video is exactly how you described it, it really helped me

I serious can't believe that more people aren't talking about this. Not only do youtube recommendations suck but google results are all screwed up now too and i feel like NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT

@River_YT

9 ай бұрын

Yep google is absolute trash now unless the result you're looking for is one of the top 3 or 4 results.... It's crazy

@splashlyy

9 ай бұрын

@@River_YT and no one is talking about it. I literally can’t find most of the things I look for now and most other search engines just mirror google Please turn it back

@saalok

9 ай бұрын

People talk about it and KZread ignores them. They have done it with ads, with dislikes and now with a shitty system. The issues is that the latter might actually be a change that actively hurts them as it will probably decrease time within the platform

@KekeeBlack

9 ай бұрын

@@strange-universeI thought they had to at least go off of some sort of research.

@dalelerette206

9 ай бұрын

It seems so strange that KZread does not allow each person to determine their own path. I suspect the constraints of KZread cannot handle the full accommodation of everyone being free to choose their own path. KZread search algorithm would probably greatly break down.

The only part of KZread’s algorithm that I hate is that when I’m watching a video, the recommended videos underneath it are now completely UNRELATED to the video that I’m watching, and those videos are basically the exact same videos I would just see in my home feed

@Seilah789

10 ай бұрын

OR they recommend stuff you’ve already seen???

@mei1568

10 ай бұрын

I usually use KZread for work and my content basically should relate to that as I'm keeping myself more productive engaging with such content everyday even for a bit. BUT the only exception of "unrelated" content under videos that I watch is honestly... Cats lol. Short, uplifting and no pressure 😂

@Rose_Haw

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Now it's way more hard to find the next episode of a let's play series so it's basically mandatory to find the playlist. And similarly if I want more videos from the channel I'm watching they won't be recommended if they aren't a large channel.

@matthewmcwane9569

10 ай бұрын

@@Rose_Haw exactly

@WingedAsarath

10 ай бұрын

Just speculation, but I wonder if that change was made to stop people going down some of the conspiracy theory or far-right rabbit holes that used to be a huge problem. I remember there being a lot of concerns that the recommendeds would skew people deeper and deeper down these dark places and it was doing a lot of damage.

Thanks for this video. I just got recommended your video today out of the blue. I'm experiencing all the issues you have raised, including getting recommendations that have nothing to do with subjects I'm interested in. I'm in Australia and speak English yet my News tab is filled with news channels from a different country each day - none of them in English. When I deliberately search for a particular issue, it is often difficult to find anything useful in the results. Not a huge fan of the shorts. Don't use TikTok and don't need the YT version in my feed.

Confirmed popped up out of nowhere. Yes KZread recommendations has been "off" so to speak for about a year as you said. Also I noticed KZread has started mixing in ads in the normal home page feed as if they are regular videos from a content creator, which is really annoying and you have to be careful so you don't click anything by mistake.

KZread just feels stagnant. I feel like I can't actually find new things because it either recommends things I've already seen, people I'm subscribed to that I'll watch anyway, or stuff that is completely irrelevant to my interests. No matter what it just feels like I'm going in a loop. For context of how I got here though, I'm pretty sure I was recommended this because I always watch similar videos. So even with this, youtube still isn't giving me new things to explore that would broaden what I find interesting.

@Casocki

10 ай бұрын

I've been having the same problem. I've been trying to use the "New to You" tab to find new content, but the option to go there doesn't even reliably show up on mobile, and when it does the feed is never more than 20 videos.

@jessies.4589

10 ай бұрын

You described the main problem perfectly

@plaguepug2091

10 ай бұрын

And the default shit they give people to explore is NOT IT at all.

@prestonjones8672

10 ай бұрын

My problem is that it seems to mainly recommend content you’ve watched very recently. For example if I binge watched KZread videos about movies for an entire month I’d only be getting recommendations about movie videos or random stuff I’m not interested in. Then let’s say I watch videos about dogs for one week and take a break from movie content, it will then act like it completely forgot I like movie content or any of the movie people I subscribed to and just start only recommending me dog videos. It’s annoying because it seems to want to keep you on a loop of just watching the same content you are watching continuously. Then you get on a KZread and just see the same videos and type of videos over and over when KZread used to frequently show you topics you used to watch to see if you wanted to start watching them again or show you people you’re subscribed to but haven’t watched in a while. It seems like you’re cut off from everything now other than what you’re currently watching and seemingly completely random videos you’ve never showed interest in. Used to id get on KZread see someone I haven’t watched in a while and say “oh yeah I need to start watching them again”. Now that never happens unless I happen to remember them or scroll all the way through my subscribed list.

@joeywin42

10 ай бұрын

I found a good solution is to have an alt account and just watch some of the videos that you normally watch. Usually the reccomendation after a bit is a bit spicy. Igcognito also works pretty well.

I’ve definitely found it harder to find videos I’m interested in. I feel like KZread used to be really on point at recommending videos I’ll like. Now it just feels… stale. You explained why really well.

100% correct, and KZread needs to not only WATCH this, but IMPLEMENT your suggestions!

This video has to be the best video for me on my home page because it has literally read my mind... I have to re load the home page 3 times to find something to watch

One of the most annoying things I’ve come across lately is the ridiculous word censorship that’s getting channels flagged. It’s honestly getting out of hand. Creators now have to say “unalived” or “deleted” instead of “murdered” or committed “suicide”. Changing the agreed upon word doesn’t change the meaning. If we can’t have a conversation with “scary” words in them that, often times are blocked without any context, it really takes the value out of the content.

@hovhadovah

10 ай бұрын

I'm unalive 💀

@interiot2

10 ай бұрын

Some of those word-alternates started on TikTok to evade automated censors, but then they became a legitimate part of the lexicon across the web.

@haroldnecmann7040

10 ай бұрын

@@hovhadovah how do u bleach ur skeleton? Its pearly white 🤤

@haroldnecmann7040

10 ай бұрын

@@hovhadovah go touch wheat u bubonic plague

@effbar2400

10 ай бұрын

That's not a actual issue. No one has actually been demonitized for saying killed. Their just being safe since it's a issue on tik tok

One thing I really hate, is how the algorithm tries to force short-form videos down my throat. I rarely watch anything less than 20 min, but it keeps recommending shorts and 2 min videos.

@chillarypuff

10 ай бұрын

YES AGREE!!!!

@FUEGOSTARR

10 ай бұрын

This! Then when u give in to them harassing us to watch shorts, they repeat the same shit in specific loops.

@PeefAndMerf

10 ай бұрын

Hmmm, I'm the opposite, I get mad if the video is more than 15 minutes lol. Interesting to see the opposite side of the spectrum.

@logo315

10 ай бұрын

Yes! I’m trying to find something interesting and educationalish to put on while I do chores or something similar to keep my interest but recently it’s been like 9 min videos than I have to jump to another ruining my flow

@aabe4327

10 ай бұрын

I agree so much with this. Most of the channels I used to enjoy the most have shut down, cause the algorithm didn't like them doing slow paced 40+ min long videos, so they got pushed down and were never shown on the homepage. Some of them I only found out they were shut down, after actively going looking for them, finding that they kept posting videos that I never got to see and in the end they gave up the fight and shut down. it is so frustrating. And Instagram is doing the same shit, shoving "Reels" down my throat instead of showing me what I have told them time and time again that I want to see. And since what i post the most are black and white ink drawings, I don't tick any of the "cool" boxes for vibrant colours or reel content, so my subscribers don't even see what I post.

I got recommended this out of nowhere but I’ve seen it a few times and strangely only when I can’t find something to watch but I’m glad I finally watched it

It’s gratifying seeing this all put into words

Another thing the algorithm is doing that annoys me a little is it only shows me stuff I've been into recently. I tend to go through phases, so it'd be nice if it at least factored overall watch history in a bit instead of just assuming my latest interest is now my only interest forever until I manually search out other things I like again/specifically choose from my subscribed tab.

@kevinsteevens4468

9 ай бұрын

I know right, every time I watch something I usually don't watch half my recommendations are suddenly filled with adjacent content.

@johnkelly7757

9 ай бұрын

I simply "remind" youtube of my former preference by searching for my former favorite vid's and calling them up for viewing. It usually takes a few times before the algorithm gets the hint.

@jm6734

9 ай бұрын

Yes! This is sooo f* annoying. Like we’ve all turned into one track minded cyclops

@tulip5210

9 ай бұрын

MOOOOOOOD

@hitsugatatsuro9978

9 ай бұрын

Exactly! All those channels I subbed to and been meaning to go back to but don't remember the name of are just... gone forever, until my peabrain remembers one of their old videos and finds them again based on that.

I can confirm this video randomly popped in my feed without me having ever visited your channel, at least it was one of the extremely rare actually interesting recommendations

@kristinebailey6554

4 ай бұрын

Same

@aubreyj.tennant1123

4 ай бұрын

Same

@IcyNightMedic

4 ай бұрын

Agreed, most recommendations are dogwater nowadays on this site.

@SnowyButterfly1

4 ай бұрын

@@kristinebailey6554actually I searched for it but im goad got this recommende

@asoibal

4 ай бұрын

Same

This video was on my page randomly, BUT I'm glad it was because I'm happy I've discovered your content 😊

Great video, thank you! It was recommended to me out of nowhere. My frustration with KZread is the same as other commenters.

I HATE KZread Shorts i wish i could disable them. And i thought 2013 was a Bad Year for KZread.

@KomajuDraws

5 ай бұрын

i use youtube revanced app for mobile + youtube search fixer on desktop, removes shorts like a charm

@bodhi6769

5 ай бұрын

That was the beginning

@TheOne24115

5 ай бұрын

You can disable them with adblock, I have done it and it works really well

@SubBattleTV

5 ай бұрын

how in the world is 2013 bad?

@theclearsounds3911

5 ай бұрын

You CAN disable KZread Shorts, and this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJqmkteChZXSdKw.html shows you how. It's a fair amount of work, but I tried it, and it worked for me.

This video is so meta. I can easily assume Zack had no idea it would do this well, but the algorithm did exactly what he described and put his video at the forefront of all of our pages because we, the people, hit the like button and interacted with it. The irony of this video landing on so many peoples pages that it has now amassed 1,000,000+ views is astounding. Kudos to you, Zackary.

@1PeakMindset

10 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly!!!!! 😂👌

@TQFMTradingStrategies

10 ай бұрын

came here to say that lol, algo has become sentient, and it has a sense of irony XD

@timstutors

10 ай бұрын

I was conned, and I'm okay with it

@CatboyFisky

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely peak banger irony and LOVE it! :D

@regulargoat7259

10 ай бұрын

It was literally the first video on my yt homepage when i opened it today

This video came up on my home page out of nowhere, but the cover picture intrigued me so here I am, answering your question. One thing that you mentioned is something that was happening *all the time* - for maybe 5 days, three weeks ago: Videos I had watched - even watched the day before - showing up in the recommendations. These were almost all videos from a single channel - USCSB. My interests are eclectic - politics, sovereign citizen traffic stops and court appearances, Karens, crocheting, Reddit readers, several kinds of non-current music, Godzilla movies..... and others that aren't coming into my head just now. My home page seems to focus on a few of the topics I've watched most frequently in recent days, odd suggestions (sometimes good ones!), and a lot of things related to something I looked at yesterday. Today I had a Tarot card reader I looked at last night and "help you sleep" stuff. They haven't shown me things from the Polish guy who cleans rugs (ASMR) in at least a couple of months, even though I'm subscribed. (That's okay, though.) I hope this information is useful to you in your research.

Video out of nowhere, but I gotta admit, I'm kinda glad it did. As a mother of several grown kids, I felt a sense of pride in your channel and work. Keep up the good work.

The one that annoyed me the most is the fact that I would search a video that I KNOW EXISTS and then YT would suggest 3 random videos then give me some "for you" videos like... whaaa? I'm glad this video got big and arrived to my recommends. You deserve it.

@Snoozl

10 ай бұрын

Fr and then it straight up turns into liveleak

@randomdude2540

10 ай бұрын

Use new pipe for searching

@Snoozl

10 ай бұрын

@@randomdude2540 what’s that?

I feel like irrelevant stuff is being forced on me. You came to me randomly. It's like the the algorithm sensed my frustration and you were there to explain. I am old - not your target demographic. I mainly look at ecology, agricultural, and biology topics. But as soon as you don't resist an impulse to watch some comedian you get a firehose of comedy. It's hard to get back on course. Your critique is spot on.

@Maybe_a_monkey_on_a_computer

9 ай бұрын

I've noticed this as well. I watch one video on a topic that I wanted to at and only at that moment in time, and the KZread decides that that is my entire personality.

@DevonExplorer

9 ай бұрын

Haha, yes! i once watched a video of birds splashing about in a bird bath and before I knew it all my recommended videos were of birds bathing in a bird bath. They weren't even a variety of birds but all the exact same ones, lol!

@chrismullin8304

9 ай бұрын

Ha! Agreed! I watch “Canadian Prepper”

@TheeShaggySniper

9 ай бұрын

@@DevonExplorer We put on a "cat entertainment" video, where it's just birds and squirrels and whatnot in the forest to entertain our cats for a little bit. Well, because we searched for it and watched it for 15 minutes, that's now half my suggestions.

@aircvr4175

9 ай бұрын

No kidding. The algorithm is embarrassingly-bad now. Multi-billion $ company that lets childish minds authorize downgrades to the ML. There is not a single executive at youtube, and probably precious few at "Alphabet" above them who deserves to be in any leadership position. Can you imagine an actual, educated, mature adult saying "Yeah, once they've watched one video, lets show that same video again and again in their feed even though they never click on it ever again? Good grief. Google needs a shareholder revolt. @@Maybe_a_monkey_on_a_computer

Totally agreed with you. Why did youtube keep showing me the videos I have watched? Why can't youtube showing me some content in the niche I am interested in, etc...

watching this video, all of my "up next" are all videos I've already watched?? why would I want to rewatch them over and over

What is driving me nuts is that when I scroll on my phone KZread records every pause as something I watched, even if I only spent the amount of time it took me to move my finger. Later when I go through my history all of those channels are recorded as watched. Lovely-I now have a hundred videos to scroll through as I try and find the video I did watch and want to watch again or share with someone. I never thought about what it might be doing to some creator's analytics.

@Aunt-Rachel

4 ай бұрын

You can turn that off in your settings. It's called something along the lines of "preview," if I remember correctly.

@jimintaos

4 ай бұрын

Thanks@@Aunt-Rachel

@cathyjohnson8287

4 ай бұрын

You can delete videos from your watch history.

@G00gLe_was_my_idea989

4 ай бұрын

Is that why I sometimes see videos in my feed that have a piece of the red bar highlighted red as if watched (some of) it, but have never even seen the thumbnail or title in my life?

KZread used to be incredibly addictive to binge and always interesting. Lately,I find like 3 or 4 videos and then idk what to watch :/ Im even struggling to influence the algorithm to give me what I DO want by actively seeking it out. Whatever they changed is just awful right now

@TheRealSnurge

5 ай бұрын

Perfect summation

@thealexanderbond

5 ай бұрын

I would suggest that many of you spend too much time on KZread and somehow expect there to be an unlimited quantity of videos that you will find interesting. Even within a niche that you like, most of the content is not good or at best mediocre. You're basically expecting an endless amount of high quality content for free, 7 days a week for however many years you've been watching YT - which simply doesn't exist. Perhaps a better solution would be to stop whining about this fact and go and actually do something, instead of looking at videos.

@TheYoungKilljoy

5 ай бұрын

I actually sort of like that the algorithm sucks, so that people don't spend as much time in the app

@trikolo

5 ай бұрын

Nailed the problem down PERFECTLY!

@accidentalmadness1708

5 ай бұрын

@@thealexanderbondI would suggest not pulling assumptions out of your ass.

I got this video recommended to me today after watching a couple other internet culture essays, so I do think it is working in that regard, but I have also noticed the incredibly out of place recommendations even now, 5 months after you posted this. I also agree the shorts take up way to much space on desktop.

Never heard of you, but, surprisingly, your video popped up at most perfect time: this question just came up in my head 20 minutes ago.

I feel like YT has become a video essay factory. I love video essays (including this one). But less and less do I see creative new formats.

@alephnulI

10 ай бұрын

Nah. Most videos on my recommend are not essays. Probably depends on what it's showing you.

@friedkeenan

10 ай бұрын

@@alephnulI I do feel like most of the valueful recommendations for me are longer form content. It feels more and more like the algorithm is incentivizing videos towards a few lengths: less than 2 minutes (clips, simple one note sketches, etc.), 25-30 minutes, and 50+ minutes, very much including multi-hour long videos. The world of 8-15 minute videos feels like it's shrinking, and sorta makes it feel like each video either takes meaningful commitment (especially the 50+ minute ones), or are so bite-sized that they don't leave a lasting impression and I just get booted back into the video choosing cycle too soon.

@alephnulI

10 ай бұрын

@@friedkeenan I prefer to watch very long videos. I often use KZread for background noise while working, or I watch classes in it that are over an hour long. I never get recommended videos bellow 5min, and whenever the shorts tab comes back, I click the X and it disappears again. I do get a lot of 8 to 16min videos and I don't enjoy them as much so I don't click them, most of what I watch is longer and I do get a lot of 25min to 50min recommended, as well as a lot of videos that are several hours long. Usually they're podcasts, or people telling stories, or people chatting, streams, news format. I get essays as well, but most of them aren't essays.

@sewerentropy5217

10 ай бұрын

i love video essays as well, specifically gaming essays, but finding genuinely interesting and creative essays is definetly harder than it used to be. i generally find the most creative channels through suggestion from friends or recommendations from bigger creators. the most interesting channels are never recommended by KZread itself which continues to push videos that are barely related to a video i saw 3 years ago.

@treeaboo

10 ай бұрын

@@friedkeenan I identified this recently when talking with someone about how the intros that so many videos used to have have largely faded entirely over the last few years, with longer form content usually doing unique video-specific introductions rather than the classic intro a channel might use on every video, very short form content dropping intros entirely, and only some 25-30 minute videos retaining that older style of intros. However when the intros are retained they're now shorter and sometimes placed later after an 'intro clip' from the video's main content in order to grab attention, with the classic intro instead serving as a dividing slide between the 'hook' and the actual content. I think it's a sign of how KZread videos are generally made to a higher quality these days and are more refined and optimised for viewer retention and their target demographics.

I thought I was crazy for losing interest in KZread over the last year or so. Mind you, I have been consuming content on this platform for as long as I can remember. Back then it felt like I could load up the homepage and instantly find 3-4 videos that I would gladly watch to burn time. Now it feels like a schlep to find something worthwhile. Thanks for explaining, I hope they bring back the old KZread.

@CaptainFSU

10 ай бұрын

I don't use the homepage, I stick to my subscription feed, and if I must look for something new I use search. The homepage is where the algorithm lives and I find it chaotic af.

@coebro1

10 ай бұрын

Yeah sometimes it feels like KZread doesn’t want you to use it. I remember scrolling through my homepage and seeing nothing but 10 second memes or clips from tv. None of my subscriptions

@CineSoar

10 ай бұрын

I've found, that if I don't see something interesting in the first half-page, or so... It's going to be less interesting the farther I scroll. About once a month, a 'really random' suggestion will really hit with me. But, it is rare that the algorithm serves me anything that rises to 'must watch'. Sometimes, I click on that oddball suggestion that I've seen suggested 50 times, just to get it off my homepage.

@davidadams2395

10 ай бұрын

The question should be, to which old KZread are you referring? The app has gone through so many iterations.

@xmancook529

10 ай бұрын

literally! i would have so many internal battles of what to watch next, and now it’s a blessing if i even open youtube anymore

I searched youtube for "youtube algorithm repetitive" and you came up as one of the hits.

YT keeps getting more odd. I get few recommended video’s that interest me. This video is spot on!

I've been really really really really really really irritated with KZread. Everytime I watch something once, they send it to my page with a flood of other content from the same creator. They Drown me with certain stuff I am NOT inquiring about & totally ignore other things I look up. I don't research as much on KZread anymore because it's just to time consuming clearing out all the content triggered by one article. It's always the dark stuff, too. Never the lighter subjects. Super disappointing because computer technology was supposed to stimulate our curiosity, NOT limit us to dark corners and force us to shut down our inquiries due to freaky algorithms. Depressing.

@steyraug96

4 ай бұрын

Bread and circuses. The powers that be do not want us asking questions or finding answers, they want us enmeshed and engorged with bull dinky. We need to enmesh our would-be owners with the dirt. Only solution. And that will only lead to new owners... Bad actors are perennial like weeds.

@linsqopiring6816

4 ай бұрын

Did you know you can delete videos from your watch history? Also you can research in an incogneto window.

@withthesehands5799

4 ай бұрын

I accidentally clicked on a video about serial killers, i had to go and delete it from my watched history because it immediately started recommending me murder, kidnapping etc videos. thanks i hate it!

@steyraug96

4 ай бұрын

@@withthesehands5799 Useful to learn how to avoid FedGov though. 😉

@Pabliski577

4 ай бұрын

Notice the doomscrolling, that trance-like state when it happens. Save your brain while you can

Ive been refreshing my youtube feed like three times every time i wanted to watch something today because everything felt so disconnected from what I like and then I saw this thumbnail and I felt a cosmic connection with the rest of humanity instantly (and yeah i do love video essays on internet culture)

@sentientplant9658

10 ай бұрын

Fr I feel like the algorithm completely disregards my actual interests and just give me random nonsense it's obvious I'm not going to watch while suppressing people I actually WANT to watch. For instance, I'm not subscribed to Wendigoon since I don't watch too many of his videos, but I used to get recommended his videos anyways. Now, I legit thought he hasn't posted in almost a year because I'm no longer getting recommended his videos. But based on what I watch, even if I never watched him, I still watch people in his area of expertise, so I should still be getting recommendations of him. It's wild.

@ano_nym

10 ай бұрын

I'm happy I don't seem to have gotten this change yet. My recommended is still normal. I have noticed the search being shit though.

@Your-Average-Nerd

10 ай бұрын

Yes, I keep getting videos that I’ve never had anything to do with or had any interest in or videos that I used to watch. For example Danny Gonzalez, I really don’t watch him and don’t WANT to watch him. I don’t really like his content so it’s pretty annoying when he keeps popping up. There’s also Mr. Beast (used to watch) and this one video about how North Korea is inescapable now. I really don’t care about any of them so it frustrates me when I’m trying to find a good video to watch.

@vivious_

10 ай бұрын

exactly what i did

@buddymmx3936

10 ай бұрын

I know right! I've never had this problem In the past but now it feels like refreshing is just a step to finding a relevant video

This was a random pop up but very interesting content. Things that annoy me most and push me to tire of YT is the constant reposting of previously watched videos despite selecting "new to you" and when searching so much totally unrelated content surfaces very early on and content of channels I am subscribed to rarely display, frustrating so I just leave and read a book!

i like how what you described at the end for how it should work is how the tv youtube viewing experience is lol

Recently, my mom has been complaining about getting videos recommended to her that have almost no views, and no relation to her viewing interests - religious videos, spiritual videos, mindfulness videos - and she thought it was her fault for clicking on a video like that several weeks ago, lol 😄 She is even explicitly telling the KZread recommendation algorithm on each of those videos (via the small menu button next to the video) that she is not interested in that content. But KZread still recommends her those videos over and over again 😂

@kateterlinden1134

9 ай бұрын

Sad. That would be very frustrating.

@ravenlorans

9 ай бұрын

Funny, I Keep getting Chinese and Islamic or even Jewish recommendations..

@stephanielandis6178

9 ай бұрын

Make sure she restarts her computer from time to time. KZread is bad at updated individual accounts.

@daniellee.e_x

9 ай бұрын

That has started happening to me too, usually shorts.. Videos are still within my echo chamber but shorts are weird and random zero views videos

@caki4695

9 ай бұрын

Oh my gosh so I'm not the only one spammed religious content when I haven't ever engaged with it??

I'm glad other people are feeling this way. Search feels useless. Recommendations is full of stuff I've already seen. It feels like it's getting harder and harder to discover new content.

@alepolait8951

10 ай бұрын

I feel the same way about Spotify. It's the same, over and over again. Instagram has the same "narrow view" thing, plus a lot of ads. Reddit is the only social media where i feel i discover some new stuff, but they are riddled with repost bots too.

@jonirischx8925

10 ай бұрын

@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4 Maybe the content was the bibles sold along the way?

@fluteoboe101

10 ай бұрын

Or can we talk about how it will recommend you the same video over and over that you haven't clicked because you are not interested in? I wasn't interested the first time, I promise I won't be interested the 20th either.

@BenColc

10 ай бұрын

Oh absolutely! Even if you go to the "New To You" tab it gives stuff that you've skipped over before. Take a hint, KZread! lol@@fluteoboe101

@Shadow850031

10 ай бұрын

@@fluteoboe101 youtube manages to show the same video over and over or very similar ones that I've specifically marked that I am not interested in

I absolutely agree about shorts and always wondered if they could be removed. Also I have at times done a search and absolutely nothing came up even though I had only been searching the day before without issues! And then of course, we keep seeing videos of KZreadrs giving up altogether: the company will lose it's credibility before too long and a mass migration to other platforms will follow.

Miraculously, you came up in my feed! What a change from the crap they keep pushing on me!

I have definitely felt a difference in the past months.. About half a year ago, i thought my algorithm was perfect, i had so much fun watching KZread. But nowdays it's like tiktok and twitter, a few bangers in the beginning, and then just endless doomsurfing in hopes of the right content. I am so glad that I'm not alone, this video was also amazing and very informative. Thanks❤

@jaazz90

10 ай бұрын

Funny, opposite of my experience. My algorithm was perfect about 5 years ago, and it progressively got worse and worse, to the point where 6 months ago my page was filled with exact same channels and topics. I would scroll for 10 minutes until giving up and doing something else. Today it is still far from golden times, but gradually gets better. Almost as if we both could have the best of two worlds if youtube added recommendation settings, one showing similar content to what you watch, and the other exposing you to something new and unrelated.

@user-bw6vo5dx2g

10 ай бұрын

Holy shit same man hours of scrolling fr

@holdenhodgdon3756

10 ай бұрын

Mid - late 2018 is when things went to shit. Since then I will get 3 videos relevant to the search I just did, and then the rest of the results are page after page of Linus Tech Tips.

@Ilsezwarts

10 ай бұрын

Yeah 100% Agreed. I just tend to scroll for a while before I find more content I actually want to watch,,

@ADreamingTraveler

10 ай бұрын

Same I noticed that youtube just stopped recommending me pc/old tech videos because I like watching those and think they're fun and interesting. Then just nothing despite me watching so many of these videos. Content creators I used to watch every other day just stopped showing up and then I'd go weeks or months not knowing they were still making new stuff constantly

I will say, I absolutely love getting videos with like 8 views in my recommendations. You get such a good picture of what the average person is doing on youtube, it's insanely fascinating to me. Getting videos I've already seen though, is pretty annoying.

@teletubism

10 ай бұрын

There are websites that can find a random vid for you with little to no views

@toobig7150

10 ай бұрын

im also totally fine with that, the issue its that trying to find any video regarding a topic its bordeline impossible to find, along with getting tiktok level recomendations and isane levels of shorts shoved everywhere. I find myself closing youtube all the time or goign specifically to channels i know and rewatching their videos, because outside the odd 8 view recomended video from a theme i like 90% of everything else its just.. meh (not because the person itself, but the theme of the video)

@_PinkiePie.

10 ай бұрын

This is how I found a channel of some guy washing his clothes for 2 hours per vid. Or an entire underground community of people showing off their filled coloring books

@kephrian

10 ай бұрын

@@geekzombie8795 I'm trying to find motivation but lifes a bit hectic at the moment😂 had a new born - yay finally a dad - plus trying to learn ue5 from a complete at home noob setting to make random videos is probably not the smartest.... .....and I dont have the same passion for modern games any more.........funny enough I moved back to streaming on twitch after a very long break....growing faster there than on here which is weird as I was going well on here for my content quality I thought but now it's like nah no one wants to see what you do😂 plus I havnt been to a car show for a long time plus left all my car clubs after covid....maybe I will just put a timelapse car wash video of my r33 gts 25de sedan and see how that goes......

@noobbutbetter

10 ай бұрын

@@kephrianbro I dont even get 20 views on my shorts

totally out of my regular recommendations but I wanted to see it mainly because I am wondering why I haven't gotten anything new when i search and lots of items I've already seen!

To answer your question, this is the first time i’ve ever seen your channel and I don’t typically search for content like this. It showed up on my home page.

I'm into niche things, but getting recommended mainstream ones. Searching for something very specific became almost impossible. KZread should try to be better than tiktok instead of copying it. And now youtube always recommends just new videos, even if you're looking for timeless things that are just as valid several years later.

@banshiii4049

10 ай бұрын

Dude fr playlists is your best friend now, like I love the niche videos from 5-10 years ago or vidoes with that vibe, and it’s impossible to find them again it makes it feel like I found a piece of gold because legit searching for it I’ll never find it.

@GangsterFrankensteinComputer

10 ай бұрын

@@banshiii4049 it's the only way I can keep track of things. I watch coding videos online and trying to refind a good one is nigh on impossible using the search bar, even if you know the name of the video.

@jilledubois5883

10 ай бұрын

Broo yt search option is very accurate

@amuro9624

10 ай бұрын

If I wanted to watch tiktoks I'd download TikTok if KZread becomes like TikTok people like me who don't care about TikTok will just stop using KZread. That's such a dumb idea from yt.

@madcxat8390

10 ай бұрын

​@@banshiii4049I'm so glad it wasn't just me

In the spirit of scientific research, confirming your video got recommended to me out of the blue. I ignored it for many days...finally watched it. I still have no idea why it got recommended to me based on content I usually watch, but I found your explanation useful and informative. Thanks, hope this helps and best wishes for reaching your monetization goals.

@airerazor9079

9 ай бұрын

Same, actually saw it refuse to go away on my husband's account and came and looked it up on my own, we normally watch yt through our ps5

@TheeShaggySniper

9 ай бұрын

This has been very reoccurring as well - refreshing the main youtube page does absolutely nothing. If there's a video uploaded in the past week that I haven't watched from a creator I'm subscribed to, it's going to stay in the top suggestions. Refreshing the page just shuffles the order they're in, sometimes. It's like youtube is literally telling me "These are your only options. Pick one."

@airerazor9079

9 ай бұрын

@@AmazingRofa spam?

@cobrasys

9 ай бұрын

Same here.

@Taraeth

9 ай бұрын

Yup, same. I actually only watched this now because I got the "KZread Ad Problem" video recommended and decided to watch that one, just to realize it's from the same creator as this video which had parked in my recommended for several days, but which I had ignored (I can say now tho, it's a good video!). Usually, when I'm really getting annoyed by a video staying rent-free in my recommended, I eventually tell KZread that I'm not interested in the video and it goes away.

Video recommended out of nowhere. But I watched it all the way thru and agree with everything you are saying.

Yeah, I was recommended your video out of nowhere but I’m glad I was

Something I've been noticing for a few years is sometimes youtube will recommend a video I've already watch and seemingly deliberately hide the watch time bar so it doesn't look like you've already seen it.

@musaran2

10 ай бұрын

There is a limited memory for one's "watched' bars. Watch too many, and older ones get forgotten. Though I do sometimes have doubts about priority of forgetting.

@lilyroza

10 ай бұрын

In my music section,it no longer gives me the option to eliminate videos. Listen again is a useful feature until it fills up with videos/ songs you listened to once or twice and never want to hear again. Other videos have the not interested option, and the don't recommend option, why not in music? Also, my recommended searches should be things I have searched, and they're not. I'm not a gamer or interested in sports, so all the most searched options are of no use to me. It used to have my own searches, but not anymore.

@christinearmington

10 ай бұрын

Seems I’ve already commented happens all too often. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

@corprall

10 ай бұрын

@@musaran2 This was my assumption when I first noticed but it kept happening so I actually checked on a number of occasions by going to the channel in another tab to compare and it still had the watch bar most of the ones I checked.

@DynamicBailey

10 ай бұрын

I hate KZread anymore. I’m so incredibly bored with having to sift through the same damn videos day after day after day. I used to love it but those days are over. The crap they recommend is so not me. It’s like they don’t care what I want to watch.

I used to get sucked into KZread rabbit holes late at night but that doesn’t happen anymore. I feel like I’m constantly looking for content to watch but have a hard time finding new creators to watch. I’ve seen the exact same videos being recommended to my 6 year old niece and she watches Roblox videos and I watch mostly commentary. Somethings broken and I’m kinda ready to take a break from KZread all together I am interested in internet culture so KZread did hit the nail on the head with this recommendation.

@McZambie1

10 ай бұрын

Exactly the same here, I watch documentary style content and I get the same random stuff as my sister's recommended, it's even the same as stuff on a brand new account

@damian9303

10 ай бұрын

I first noticed that first with Shorts, when there became actual creators from TikTok flocking to the platform instead of just phone clips from a decade ago and little kids recording themselves or their TV screen. Now even my front page looks almost like when I’m signed out…

Thank you... I've been having this nagging undefined feeling about this for a couple months and you pinned it down for me AND explained to me what was happening. Now my mildly OCD brain can put it to rest.

I really don’t know why your video was recommended, but I’m glad I clicked on it, as it is very informative and I’m always curious. I’m following now.

It was recommended, and I clicked because I feel the same. I am not sure what happened but last year my page looked nice and full o professional KZreadr thumbnails. Now.... it look like I am logged out, or searches influence way too much future the page and recommendations. cheers!

@bobi_lopataru

10 ай бұрын

Sall :))

@drachenaura

10 ай бұрын

It does NOT look like you're logged out. Believe me. I am not logged in at work so when I go on youtube for some music, it looks like a fcking porn site... because all of the pop music playlists use half-naked women at the beach for their thumbnails. Sigh.

@megga.archive

10 ай бұрын

ariana what are you doing here :))

@leagueaddict8357

10 ай бұрын

I was having this question for a longer time, then was randomly recommended to this video, google's algorithm also sucks giving you completely unrelated results all the time.

@a-dv7uy

10 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/g4F6m6Oihbaolrw.html part 2

Genuinely, I'm happy I was recommended this video. The amount of times I've had to hit "not interested" and "don't recommend this channel" the past few months is truly staggering. It's why I've been considering getting off KZread and doing whatever else with my time.

@jknight9487

5 ай бұрын

I’ve hit not interested many times and the next day I get recommended the video again. It happens regularly to the point that I don’t even bother anymore.

@One.Zero.One101

5 ай бұрын

I've probably clicked "I'm not interested" a hundred times on "Camping in the Woods" videos and they still recommend it to me after a week. I don't get it, I've never watched a camping video in my whole life. I can't even think of anything that I watch that's remotely related to camping. Why is KZread pushing this on me?

@02artiom

5 ай бұрын

​@@One.Zero.One101lmao youtube wants you to touch grass

@FiFiFilth

5 ай бұрын

I have the same thing. I get random videos by indian kids that shouldn't be on the platform. I also get loads of Jordan Peterson and self improvement channels which I actively dislike every single time. It goes completely unnoticed. Yet there are hundreds of channels I have subscribed, I haven't seen a video of them for years.

@autolicious

5 ай бұрын

There are other things to do? What magic is this?

I didn't get this recommended, I was just so fed up and irritated that I searched for this! KZread search and it's recommendations both are a mess!!

Recommended out of nowhere. You spitting facts.

I do hate youtubes new changes but having this video and creator recommended out of nowhere talking about the exact reason why its happening is so surreal. Great video, thank you for existing

@sentientplant9658

10 ай бұрын

Fr it's kinda nice. Freaky, but nice.

@clown134

10 ай бұрын

itys kindof a testament against the proof that youtube is ruined lol

@lordship1543

10 ай бұрын

Why is it surreal?

@danksorcerer-xe2gd

10 ай бұрын

especially the new youtuber channel design ,now i don't know how to access the community tab ,about section or the in channel search bar ,only just recently discovered how to access all the videos in a channel and can only comment using the reply button without it there is no way for me to comment

@danlightened

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, kinda ironic, isn't it?

About 8 months ago KZread also reached out to many creators on the pretense of assigning us with a free channel manager/helper who's going to improve our channel and make it better I was excited to sign up for it just to find out that after a few video calls the only thing the "manager" would talk about is how I really should try short and should make more short and why don't I make short? also how about streaming more? but also shorts I was really frustrated with them and decided to just stop communicating because even after politely declining the short suggestions and telling them I was only interested in long form content they would not stop talking about it. Like seriously youtube? embrace who you are and stop copying other kids

@neologicalgamer3437

10 ай бұрын

YOO, IT'S ANTON, I LOVE YOUR CONTENT MAN

@raeyner

10 ай бұрын

Well, curiousity got the better of me, and I think I rather like your long-form content (and that you've got yourself a new viewer)! Though I definitely understand where youtube is coming from. I don't think it's a bad idea to have shorts to reach new audiences. I scroll shorts an awful lot whether I like it or not, and if there had been shorts content that directed me to your channel for a longform video on an interesting topic? I'd be all ears and would've found your channel a lot sooner! Don't look at it like "shorts", look at it like a good video trailer. If you're clever and execute it tastefully, you'll get the dual effect of growing your viewership and potentially even engaging people's interest in a topic they might not have thought much about! KZread can only recommend so many longform videos, they vie for attention. Shorts? You can scroll dozens of them effortlessly. The exposure difference is immense, I reason, and I don't think there would be too much to lose (though I could most certainly be mistaken, after all: I'm not a content creator, I just play games and make music) Either way, I love what you're doing. Science has a resonating chord with almost everything we do, and creators who make educational or thought-evoking content around it, that encourage viewers to dive-in, help grow love for learning for an unspeakably many people. Keep it up!

@a64738

10 ай бұрын

I hate the "shorts" videos and block them for a month every month (you can only bock them for a month)...

@natalieminnis

10 ай бұрын

@@a64738 Didn't realise you could block them. Will try this.

@natalieminnis

10 ай бұрын

I hate YT "shorts". The reason TikTok is popular is because the content is edgy, not because it's short.

I am constantly getting recommendations from channels I am NOT subscribed to... they are of topics I am interested in, but I am not quick to watch something from another channel and I like familiar people. And I have to scroll and scroll and scroll before I finally get something I actually want to watch... glad to not be alone in this.

I wish I had the option to both see other videos that conform to my established interests, but also the option to check out videos I wouldn't normally seek out.

I’ve definitely noticed the change in the search features and it’s one of the most annoying things on this site. Though I don’t use KZread often, trying to find a specific video/a range of videos on a certain topic is almost impossible now.

@animepiglover

10 ай бұрын

The search function drives me crazy now, I've always loved watching anime speed paint videos, but I get like 10 I can pick from before it's like here's this creator you watch who isn't related to what you searched at all~~✨ it's really cut down on how often I watch those now 😭

@LikaLaruku

10 ай бұрын

The search is really bad. Starting to remind me of shopping on Amazon. So I'm getting irrelevant results & irrelevant ads. The recommendations are the only thing that has improved for me.

@buddyyyy

10 ай бұрын

i think rhe search engine got changed or something because is not working on anything like it used to (google, facebook, twitter, etc)

@Conkel

10 ай бұрын

It's an absolute nightmare trying to find some old vids with key words. Not even the full title of the vid makes it show up at top. Yt be crap nowadays

@Treebranch_

10 ай бұрын

I feel like when I type a word in the KZread search engine, KZread is using that word for 5 listed videos in the results and then it completely forgets what i searched after that and tells me to go f-k myself with the rest

KZread feels very OFF these days. You hit the nail on the head. And the fact your video was recommended is actually on-brand for the types of videos I enjoy watching.

I had this video randomly on my hompage, but I honestly don't have a issue with my recommendations. They all are something I can understand why they would interest me. And to the shorts getting recommended when you look something up, It sometimes helped me to fix some stuff by just watching a short, even on desktop yeah. But that is based on taste, I think it would be nice to setup settings to turn those off

I like getting random videos sometimes because I get introduced to new things (like this). But there should be some kind of setting to streamline or open up recommendations to different niches/channels/topics

I miss the days when the recommended list under each video actually contained similar content to the video I was current watching, allowing me to sort of rabbit hole into specific topics. Now that that section is almost entire filled with KZread drama, videos I've already seen, and Taylor Swift music videos, I don't think I've used that feature in years.

@sandraswan9008

5 ай бұрын

My feed also has Taylor Swift related videos, both main page and shorts, even though I hate this woman and never searched for anything related to her :/

@Oliravioli18

5 ай бұрын

i sweaarrr that was when youtube was actually fun to watch. Right now its all mish mash from small creators, old videos and some weird unheard of content that ive never watched before.

@stephenszucs8439

5 ай бұрын

@@sandraswan9008 I got so many unwanted Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Cardi B Videos (I only ever listen to Gospel music or the Oak Ridge Boys/Statler Brothers/Home Free) that, after "Do not recommend channel" was ignored for over a month, I just hit "Violent or repulsive content" every time.

@TheOne24115

4 ай бұрын

I was getting so annoyed by the suggestions, that I disabled them. Now I only see the suggestions when the clip has ended

@datadavis

4 ай бұрын

yea its so very, very Ass.

I think, for me, the biggest and most annoying change is the search function. I’m constantly shown videos that I have already watched. I want new videos when I search for something!

@losermillie

7 ай бұрын

and it doesn’t even show as watched which means i’ll go ‘that sounds familiar’ and probably watch it anyway, but if i watched it 5 years ago, i don’t actually want to watch it again

@pugglebiscuit9600

5 ай бұрын

@@losermillie this happens to me even within a week or two of watching it, yt just forgets and even if i say ive already seen it several times itll STILL put it there. Also def agree that searches are horrible now, literally have better luck going thru google/firefox search and THEY find the types of vids i want more often that yt lately

@NondescriptMammal

5 ай бұрын

For sure! Obviously if there are videos that I know I might want to watch again, I can save them in a playlist... No good reason to put them in my search results.

@raezor82

5 ай бұрын

Tbf it is nice for asmr.

@creamtoned

5 ай бұрын

@@raezor82 playlists r for saving videos not the search feature

You JUST appeared in my feed. I’m GLAD you covered it. It is HARD to build a presence on KZread. It’s insane. I’ve had my channel for almost nine years… it took me YEARS to get 800 subs.

I searched how to block shorts, yesterday. Today I got this vid in my feed.

I LITERALLY was complaining about this in my head when I saw this video, KZread has become so frustrating to use. I can sit and refresh my recommended page for no joke 10 minutes straight while clicking "not interested" on videos I've already watched/ don't want to watch, and STILL get recommended THE SAME VIDEOS. Or alternatively KZread will stop showing me any videos and just give me "mixes" to watch, mixes containing videos I'VE ALREADY WATCHED!!! It's gotten to the point where I literally have to sit down and think of what specific KZreadr I want to watch or what might be interesting. It feels like shopping but you're only allowed to look at products you know already exist or have previously bought, and you have to guess the names of the other items to find them. It's made KZread so unbelievably UN-relaxing to use because I just get so frustrated with how seemingly purposely bad the recommendation ai is.

@TheLetterS_Rebooted

10 ай бұрын

ive literaly deleted all my watch history a couple months ago i wouldn't recommend doing that because it'll just recomend you videos you have already watched before reseting it

@EvilParagon4

10 ай бұрын

I recommend the extention "BlockTube". Works completely within the KZread system so no weird menus or anything. Allows you to block videos and even whole channels from ever being recommended. You can also block key words like for instance if you don't like "iceberg" videos (though it's not very smart, it will block _all_ iceberg videos, even ones about actual icebergs like for instance, if you like documentaries you may miss out on something to do with the Titanic if you have such a filter on. You can not only block Shorts, but also block videos of a certain length. When I'm in the mood for video essays I just pump it up to 3000 seconds and I get plenty of 50+ min videos recommended to me. But, my favourite part of the extension, is looking at a homepage of 24 videos or so, blocking 20 of them, and feeling confident I will _never_ see them again.

I used to ask out loud if I was crazy as I scrolled through KZread for literal hours slogging through only videos I've already seen or ones I've already selected 'not interested' on. Absolutely insane that there are millions of videos on the platform but it can't figure out what we like to watch.

@drswaqqinscheckingin7210

10 ай бұрын

@@davesmith3023 dont you think that scrolling thing is them trying to figure out what they want to watch?

@andydietrich3689

10 ай бұрын

@@drswaqqinscheckingin7210scrolling needlessly for HOURS? Trying to find a single video that’s new to you? At that point you need to start reading or engaging in another hobby and admit that shorts/scrolling have taken over your life. That would be the best case - the worst case is he could simply do research on new content.

@virionspiral

10 ай бұрын

Yeah recommending the same random thing you've already watched is stupid. Now I could see maybe it is something you have watched multiple times before, but space out before it recommends it again.

video recommended out of nowhere, though it's not hard to capture my attention... now that it has been brought up though youtube does feel vastly different from what i remember back in some odd of 2012 and years near it. back then i'd look up anime wolf versions of songs i liked, which were overglorified stolen art slideshows with a song. but guess what? that was still what i wanted and i'd even come across the songs i like today that way. now? i feel like if i'd look that up i'd get maybe 4 results max of what i roughly want and then bombarded with shorts, "for you" stuff and "what others are watching" and it's like what would be for me is what i want at this current moment which is why i'm using the search feature that you freaking provided, thank you. [@ youtube]

Just recommended to me today 1/30/24, I want to start my own channel but not sure how to begin, so I thought this might be something that would be good to watch. Don't get me started on the commercials in the middle of the video. Blocking them does not work

Finally someone is talking about this. I am interested in slice of life and Japanese fashion content, yet I get soooo many recommendations for videos about celebrity drama, commentary on why (insert anything) is problematic, and random makeup influencers.

@stevens1041

10 ай бұрын

Yes, this. Its a lot of negativity blasting itself into our lives

@allegorx58

10 ай бұрын

teach the algo you don’t want their constant libtard propaganda by downvoting all of it prob won’t work tho lol

@foreverkurome

10 ай бұрын

oh for fuck sake tell me about it @DiaryofNatalieRose. I used to be able to find funny anime memes now I can only find "girls are into this" "look, look what this celebrity/politician did" bro, I don't give a fuck what celebrities are up to (yeah hopefully throwing themselves off a bridge ASAP wearing cement shoes) or what 3D GIRLS in the real world are into you dare to recommend the 3D to me???, Do I look like that's going to be relevant info to me any time soon?. I'm fucking sick of my recommended being 95% contaminated with shit I have absolutely 0 interest in. I want more anime and more Minecraft.

@akabaneaki

10 ай бұрын

ikr! same here! its sooo annoying

@foreverkurome

10 ай бұрын

@@akabaneaki what's irritating about it is that KZread is effectively forcing people to agree to all of these terms on how they process their data yet the recommendations are still garbage. This is no small amount of data they are collecting about people and because of that I think people are entirely justified in expecting relevant content based on their interests. I'm sending them data about basically every video and channel I watch and yet I'm still receiving utter shit that has nothing to do with anything I watch or any channel I have subscribed to so I have to ask the question "why does KZread need to process my data?"

I love the fact that small creators are being pushed out more, found this video exactly because of the algorithm change. Very good quality video btw

@laserfoxpro

10 ай бұрын

thats probably the only good part of this new algorithm

@theflyingspaget

10 ай бұрын

It's cool, but it's so unhelpful to small creators because I'm recommended random stuff from some small creators but the tiny creators I care about are never recommend to me despite me subscribing and turning on notifications (that rarely appear). I've found a few good niches through this system but for some reason it's like when the channel gets too small KZread forgets all of your interests. It's like they assume I'll click on someone's recording of a discord call out of pity that it only has 500 views but wouldn't want to listen to a video essay about my favorite game ever because it's only got 50 views.

@townfool4682

10 ай бұрын

@@theflyingspaget Yeah unfortunately by pushing small creators indiscriminately to people outside their target demo, it can inadvertently tank the video performance, which often hurts the small creator even more

@Mel-mu8ox

10 ай бұрын

KZread have a box that comes up occasionally, asking if you want something different from what is usually recommended... It would be nice if that feature was worked on a little, giving ppl a choice :( A behaviour science thing. if choosing to watch something new, your more likely to have an open mind about it, allowing you to enjoy it more than you would have if it was the only option you had with seemingly no other choice. The same thing happens when youtubers buy adds and they are shown to ppl outside their target audience. This was actually tested by another content creator. 'The spiffing brit, youtube is broken - how to kill a youtube video' Time stamp 2:12 KZread is hurting creators in the same way :/ Its bad marketing :(

@iidoyila_live_

10 ай бұрын

" i keep seeing the same stuff " " i keep seeing random stuff " this guy is mad that people who don't know about famous people saw a video about famous people on youtube . this is exactly the kind of person who should see the video lol

I got your video in my recommendations out of nowhere. I normally watch weather related content, NFL, running, cliff jumping, yoga and flexibility, rock and metal and film music, music reaction videos, history videos, hand sewing, dress historians, training and medical advice, the list is endless. I think I'm confusing the algorithms :)

@edithgruber2125

4 ай бұрын

7 minutes in, I have to say that I don't know any of the faces shown. I must be part of quite a niche audience with very specific interests.

Found this video by chance. Agreed, KZread has deteriorated recently in several ways. I’m just a viewer and my personal gripe is that it appears to be impossible to remove any of the tidal wave of music mixes suggested.