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I almost never watch "shorts" but my suggestions for it seem to have an...uhhh...adult theme. I don't watch any such thing with YouTube. Does everyone see garbage like this?
Bruh, fuck YouTube, and if you really have to use it use an alternative client. Grayjay has plugins for more apps but there are solely clients with YouTube no adds no shorts and newer with no games
I think this stuff is high engagement content among a large subset of the population. So it gets recommended a lot.
Maybe if you watch videos with a niche that doesn't also draw in the same audience as the borderline porn stuff's, you will see less of these shorts. Alternatively, you can download a YouTube client that gives you a completely different interface for subscriptions and recommendations, or use an Invideous instance.
My Instagram and Threads feeds are like that. Not YouTube.
I’ve found that shorts is pretty aggressive about serving up more of the same stuff if you watch something and don’t downvote it.
I've watched of one clip of that "NPC girlfriend" or whatever. Now the recommendation is all that and softcore porn. Haven't watched porn on YouTube, that I remember. Maybe it's because I turned off all tracking I could it just goes with age and gender or something.
Yeah it's all that and that bald firefighting bloke. Honest kind of OK with it.
Mine is but it also works for getting clicks on me because monkey brain
When I'm logged in, the few shorts they show me tend to be from channels I'm subscribed too. If I go to the homepage incognito (back when they still showed you stuff when you rejected their terms) it was mostly either shock value, expensive stuff, sexualised stuff, sports. So lowest common denominator stuff, I guess.
Most of them are promoting their OF
Yes, but for some reason it's asian women doing sports. I never watch shorts anyway so whatever.
I had the idea to start counting it as a "Thirst-trap BINGO" each time every single thumbnail for shorts recommendations had a half naked woman with her mouth slightly open. Turns out that it happened more than half the time, and the game quickly got boring.
I have never watched a single short on YouTube, so apparently it's just the default recommendations that are horny af.
The algorithm force feeds you what you want to see... whether you know it or not
Judging purely from what you've already clicked on.
And how long you watched
I get the "Fun fact!" guy, that sorta fat dude who apparently has a forge and a farm and runs a DnD campaign...? that one dude that critiques crap tool reviews and ends every video with "There you go!" and a channel that...over-explains the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers?
I don't get any tit bait which means I've either done something wrong or done something right.
Is this that family friendly platform I keep hearing about?
No, but I don't mind that. It's the only time short feed content is acceptable for me.
Yeah lots of thirst traps. I have the big issue on FB shorts. I have to admit I've taken the bait and honestly it's not worse than anything else on my feed so whatever.
Mines all guns and motorcycles lol.
All magnets and "chefs" over here