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[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I used to follow a youtuber who slowly realized that the earnings when using her talent and profession fell short of just doing OF and showing bikini photos.

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[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I had to do that with Nux Taku. The guy made funny videos back in the day, but he slowly became a "Anti-woke" conservative mouthpiece. It's funny because the video that made me unsubscribe was a video of his saying how another youtuber got cancelled for being too woke.

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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Always has been

[–] MadBigote@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Have you heard about PlasmaMasterDon? I used to follow him and like every video... That was shocking!

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Is that guy that pointing the gun at the other one Jordan B Peterson?

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So many people I used to watch when YT first started were discovered to be pedophiles or rapists... 😟

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 2 points 14 hours ago

i briefly watched Onision until it dawned on me what a massive narcissistic douche he is...

How right i was

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

i wonder if the fame turned them into that or they were always pedos to begin with

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'd imagine it's always been there, but their fame gave them access to a devoted fanbase willing to do anything for them.

And then things just devolve...

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (16 children)

AvE. A 3 minute video supporting the truckers "protest" gets a hard NO from me.

He's why I had to install 3rd party channel blocker because yt kept recommending his videos.

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[–] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 22 hours ago

Where are your fingers?

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I very rarely manually subscribe or unsubscribe now, it just picks up on what I watch generally.

[–] Saryn@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Resist the algorithms, we must

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

Resist the algorithms

Yeah I just switched to Piped/Tubular/Grayjay; you sub to who you want; no recommendations. IF someone is good enough to watch, they'll collab with their friends and you can grow that way.

The best part is, I run out of content, and I go do other things.

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 3 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

When subscribing does nothing and changing the bell too.

I have some Youtubers who make a video a month or once a year.

I have to follow them on discord to get the new video because youtube won't show it to me even though I have selected the highest notifications only for them.

[–] Saryn@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

As someone else already pointed out - yes, subscribing does do something because you can (and should) use the Subscription feed (which is below the Home and Shorts feeds on the left hand menu). This allows you to curate your own content rather than rely on algorithms. Which is not to say you can't or shouldn't use the Home feed - chances are you will run into new things that you find you like. But as it is right now, over 90%% of all video views on YouTube come from the Home feed meaning the vast majority of users are influenced by opque algorithms.

I believe most people don't even know about the Subscription feed even though its right there

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 1 points 13 hours ago

My subscription feed is overloaded with Youtubers I subscribed to but don't want to watch all of their videos.

But that is probably an issue on my side.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 9 points 18 hours ago

Use the subscribe feed, not the home feed to watch your videos.

It shows your subscriptions in reverse chronological order.

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[–] Franklin@lemmy.ca 120 points 1 day ago (16 children)

This was me with Linus Tech Tips, it's just not the content i subscribed for all those years ago.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 19 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

writing was on the wall after the overwork allegations, sexism allegations and nosediving quality. ltt was being run like a corporation and it was a matter of time. i left them then expecting it to tank further and it did.

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