She’s almost 70, spend all day watching q-anon style of videos (but in Spanish) and every day she’s anguished about something new, last week was asking us to start digging a nuclear shelter because Russia was dropped a nuclear bomb over Ukraine. Before that she was begging us to install reinforced doors because the indigenous population were about to invade the cities and kill everyone with poisonous arrows. I have access to her YouTube account and I’m trying to unsubscribe and report the videos, but the reccomended videos keep feeding her more crazy shit.
I thought the algorithm responds to downvotes with more of the same content because negativity drives engagement. I very rarely downvote because I don’t want YT to know what I don’t like. I do however tell it to completely block rage-bait channels. This works for my home feed but not in trending.
Hmmm, good point. To be honest, I’m not sure if anyone knows how the algorithm works, I’m only guessing.
Maybe content creators would know for sure, but I’m not one :p
If you haven’t done so yet, I would recommend watching a documentary called “The Social Dilemma” if you are able to find a copy (it’s on Netflix).