Yup… I don’t get.
Browsing YouTube while logged out is 1,000 times worse.
They don’t show any recommendations when you’re logged out
the absolute blessing of never seeing Mr. Beast’s face whenever I am signed in.
I didn’t even know who he was until recently. I don’t even understand why he’s popular.
His early videos that got him popular were insane and novel. I watched them from curiosity. As for why he’s still… I have no idea. I don’t know anyone who watches him. It can’t just be kids.
You underestimate kids and their amount free time.
but someone’s buying all the merch
I didn’t mean to imply it’s all kids. Just that they can be the majority. Regardless, parents buy stuff for their kids all the time. You think adults are buying tons of hot wheels and barbies for themselves?
As a childless millennial, yes.
You underestimate kids’ ability to manipulate their parents to buy things
That’s the kids parents for their kids.
Roblox has completed its long-awaited direct listing on the NYSE, with shares closing at $69.47 for a fully diluted value of $45.3 billion—a gargantuan valuation for a video game company that rose to prominence and saw massive growth during the pandemic
Why exactly can’t it just be kids?
I think Roblox has more adult players than Mr. Beast has adult viewers
I’m a grown ass man and love his videos because they’re light-hearted and generally wholesome. Like where he rescued 100 dogs from kill shelters and helped get them adopted. But some of the more recent ones are just wasteful or dumb.
Fast paced editing and the novel experiences possible by being rich
Children
And the sheer amount of weird pseudo-reality-show-shovelware! Good grief, people! If you want made up content that’s supposed to look like the real thing, watch porn!
I don’t watch him or any top YouTubers, but many other clickbait thumbnails are far worse and more annoying with their shocked “YouTube face”…
I like how they actually removed suggestions on the home page on the first time you visit logged out. I never click on anything on the home page suggestions and most of the stuff there is garbage, so it’s actually refreshing just to see a blank home page.
This is how I use. At least any rabbit hole is started by me.
This is where I feel like an absolute alien
It’s still garbage, but you’re 100% correct about it being 1000x worse logged out, at least it’s like that for me.
I started getting a shitload of recommended videos based off an app I played for 5 minutes and deleted.
I never looked it up on youtube or google, and I didn’t even search for it in the play store, I just saw it listed as similar to a different game that I did look up.
And after a week of constantly telling them to stop recommending me these videos because I don’t like them, I’m still seeing them.
Again, played the app for a few minutes and deleted, have now spent more time telling youtube to stop showing it to me than I spent playing.
just play it from the top
Vaguely similar, there’s a salad bar at the cafeteria I go to at work. I’m convinced that nothing looks as disgusting as someone else’s salad.
Pineapple on a pizza, eh?
I don’t know if these are based on what everyone on the service is watching, or if it’s just because they still use Nielson families as their sole metric. How can the top 10 most popular things be shit I have never even heard of? If they’re that popular, I’m pretty sure I’d hear about it somewhere.
There is both no reason to believe its truly accurate and also its true that the content they advertise the most will be watched the most. I wouldn’t take it serious.
This is true for most popular things for me. I’m always wondering how this is so popular.
It keeps trying to get me to watch the new Zack Snyder Star Wars rip-off.
I watched the first one. I’d take a prostate exam by Edward Scissorhands before I waste another two hours of my life on the sequel.
Rebel Moon. Oh yeah, they’re so bad. And apparently a third one is on the way, and the extended cuts for all of them.
2 hours of grain harvest
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“LOL just grab all that shit off the cutting room floor. Four hours sounds about right for a movie!” – Zack Snyder
Nothing makes me feel more disconnected from humanity than the YouTube trending tab
I feel that way when I see YouTube shorts. Some of them are big titted girls doing shit which I can understand why those get clicked on but a lot of it I can’t even figure out what is supposed to be happening.
Hm, the Shorts algorithm should be generally based on your normal recommendations until you start watching them.
You know, potentially controversial opinion, but I kinda like shorts, since by now the algo has figured out that I like longer documentary-style videos on normal videos, but still get vtuber clips and cute animal videos as shorts.
can’t even figure out what is supposed to happening
big titted girls
Well there’s your answer
But there’s no big titted girls in the ones I can’t figure out. It’s just people doing weird shit.
Hm interesting
Maybe it’s just one of those things where it’s so absurd it’s funny, like the meme man ones such as “as yes the cheese stick hath returned” or a farside
There is a trending tab? Huh. I really only use youtube when I want something specific and I never use thier app or webpage so I had no idea.
When it doesn’t occur to you that the list is made up entirely by Netflix to get that engagement, really making it the “Top Ten Things Netflix Wants You To Watch Right Now, Please” list.
That’s also how I feel whenever I access youtube from a different browser and just get the default listing.
Even when I go to YouTube on my account I have that feeling sometimes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My mom was describing some show to me saying I should watch it and I was just thinking “that sounds awful”
Remember when Netflix had a million dollar competition to improve their recommendation system by something like 10%? Remember when they had user ratings and reviews? Remember when they threw it all in the fucking trash?
Pepperidge farm remembers
That was such a glorious time. I recall they even held a competition at one point to develop a recommendation algorithm that could predict whether or not someone would enjoy Napoleon Dynamite
The original recommendation engine was amazing. Showed me stuff I loved that I would have never found myself. My favorite example is the French claymation acid trip called “A Town Named Panic”
Now all I get recommended are shows that are cancelled and that I’ve already watched.
Think Panique au village was Belgian. Great watch yes.
That was a great film, very charming and bizarre
I watched it because it was the top pick in children’s movies and ended up enjoying it more than my kids. I rewatch it every few years because it’s just so weird and good.
Another one is the TV show Oscar’s Oasis. It has no dialog, but a very Coyote-and-Roadrunner feel. My kids loved it and it was actually pretty funny.
But when we were at Disney World we ended up sitting next to a family from Brazil who knew very little English and their kids were watching Oscar’s Oasis and my kids immediately joined them.
The goal isn’t to give you stuff you want to watch, the goal is to do just enough that is just good enough to keep the highest amount of users subscribed. We like to think those are the same thing and they are usually aligned, but don’t have to be. It’s better for Netflix if you find those slower and just keep coming back to look around, kind of like some frustrating streaming gatcha game.
It wasn’t long after they “improved” the recommendation engine that I set up my Plex server so I guess it was successful?
Maximize subscriptions, minimize actual watch time.
I never trusted that list from the getgo. Why wouldn’t they use it to promote certain content? It would be wasted opportunity if they didn’t.
Because they already have paying users.
They want engagement, which for Netflix means looking at what seems popular and promoting those.
But most likely not.
What’s the Netflix top 10…?
It’s a top ten list on Netflix.
Movies or TV Shows.
Thanks, but that was not what I was asking. lmao
Sorry. These are from the UK
TV Shows.
- Eric 2024
- Dancing for the Devil 2022
- Geek Girl 2024
- Bridgerton 2024
- Young Sheldon 2022
- Kevin Bridges The Overdue Catchup 2023
- Hitler and the Nazis 2024
- Rich House Poor House
- Raising Voices
- New Amsterdam
Films
- Under Paris
- The Contractor
- The Footballer His wife and the crash
- Godzilla Minus One
- Minions the rise of Gru
- Colors of evil red
- Atlas
- Ice Age 5
- Ice Age 3
- Mother of the bride
I got bored writing the dates. This was not easy on a phone but I should make up for my silly comment.
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10/united-states
As of today:
- Atlas
- Colors of Evil: Red
- Shrek
- Madame Web
- A Simple Favor
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- Godzilla Minus One
- Mother of the Bride
- Thelma the Unicorn
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
Interestingly enough, I can access this link, but their startpage has no way to get there as far as I can tell. I can relate to the screencapped statement though. The TV shows list is even worse. But maybe Netflix just doesn’t have a whole lot of great stuff, dunno.
Didn’t try to find it on their homepage, I just googled the link.
Also, I see at least ONE movie I can relate to, and 3 or 4 I haven’t watched but would probably enjoy.
The comments here are enlightening. In a dismaying sort of way.
It seems nothing drives a wedge between all people in a community than algorithms like the Netflix Top Ten. Everybody eyeing everyone else with suspicion, when actually no one is actually watching that crap.
It would be pretty stupid if our our movie preferences were basis for hostility.
Yeah sometimes when I am bored out of my mind I used to troll Star Wars subreddits or Harry Potter but like never 100% serious. It was always only about this perverse enjoyment of riling people up and nothing more. I wouldn’t do it on Lemmy but like Reddit i don’t care, it can die.
Come to think about it this is the only way I use Reddit for since some time hm… not that I encourage it but maybe. In my eyes you are still an angel if you troll on Reddit but are cultured pro social on Lemmy.
