I'm sure YouTube has been a fascinating case study, for many entities with many aims

[Mister Obvious]

I mean, what a soap opera right?

What a honeypot of human psychology.

But one aspect I find to be the most interesting is the fact that we tend to only watch people on YouTube who we 'vibe' with...

Now, this seems obvious. But it's actually pretty profound.

There are people on YouTube with millions and millions of subs, who I have never even seen before. Whenever I hear of one of these mega popular people, I'm always totally repulsed by what complete idiots they are. In short, we don't "vibe"... at all. Like not even a little bit. Therefore, they never make it into my sphere of "YouTube consciousness".

Now of course, YouTube's own algorithms fused with your recorded browsing interests does play in to what is shown on your recommended feed, or at least historically that has been the case.

But there's something that goes into this which is beyond the algorithms. In fact, the algorithms were made to further study and further facilitate this 'attraction' which happens between certain types/groups of people.

One hell of a honeypot. One hell of a case study.

[user94]

Bookmarks negrow I commonly watch channels with under 1000 views, some times it takes me a while to find them, but when I do I bookmark them. And FF backs up my BM.

[user94]

There is people who do youtube for fun, and other who are just money pigs. I never watch those channel yet they get recommended. I have an add on in FF to block certain channels like ExploringWithJosh.

[Crille]

Ya it´s definitely a pinnacle of human interaction. Human social interaction in a nutshell.

[user94]

Im sure Xanax has been a great case study for Alcohol

[Mister Obvious]

Relevance bump.

Just think about it.

A single database of the essence of humanity.

Truly.

[somethingelseishere]

Relevance bump.

Just think about it.

A single database of the essence of humanity.

Truly.

A lot of it just sooo unnecessary too.