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Visakan Veerasamy Profile picture
@visakanv
Jul 23, 2021 • 41 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
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this is a fun idea I can show you how I would spend a day on incognito youtube
so here's a selection of what's available, ImageImage
and here's what I'd start with ImageImage
here are some of the related vids in each of those ImageImage
and so from here I'd basically end up on DIY / restoration youtube Image
a few other clicks and I'm on agriculture youtube, chef/teppenyaki youtube, rajasthan gypsies, afghan shepherds ImageImageImageImage
less than 10 minutes I have already trained the algorithm to serve things that I like to see Image
now hanging out in Rio. It actually kinda feels quite a bit like parts of southeast asia Image
ok now let's close the window and try to start over by seeking out the worst possible shit
let's start with crimewatch and "annoying rich friend" Image
annoying things GFs do

more missing and murdere stuff ImageImage
they were cursing my unborn child...instant regret... gordon's massive meltdown... ImageImageImage
woman is addicted to sugar... more instant regret, fat shaming, ImageImage
this is actually taking longer than I hoped
i have been brought to @MrBeast Image
@MrBeast it's actually really challenging for me to avoid clicking on the things that are interesting to me, to try and deliberately look for things that are bad

I thought this was going to be an angry video but it's a really funny one Image
hoping that this will let me get to race war youtube Image
come on youtube algorithm. race war, race war, race war... Image
come onnnnn youtube get me to the good stuff Image
this is cutesy baby stuff. where's the IQ stuff and the skull shape and whatnot Image
I'm really trying my best here, I'm scrolling past tonnes and tonnes of other things. jason derulo making jalebi. people eating KFC. shaq at walmart. i'm scrolling and scrolling to look for anything race-related. also some homophobia on the side ImageImage
the brutal truth: "maybe spend less time on twitch and on female streamer chats" Image
aha I've finally gotten to peterson! Image
thoughts on hitler! yessss Image
personally I would be more interested in the lobster with cajun butter sauce, but today for science we will keep diving deeper
and i've gotten to shapiro! Image
these are all in the related vids Image
gotten to fox news Image
how my front page looks like after all that work Image
had to take a break for a call but i'm back! again, I"m more interested in the compound butter, but... for science, Image
I think yt has definitely tweaked something to prevent the most aggressive content from appearing in recommended unless maybe you explicitly search for it. 100 attempts to find the ugly side of youtube but we are still in pretty casual/safe territory
I'm bored I give up

might try starting over to get to Elsagate Image
gotten to kidtube pretty fast but nothing creepy yet ImageImageImageImage
kidtube changes the homepage *fast* Image
ok this is kind of weird Image
fat rapunzel gets mocked and pie in the face for being fat, she then works out, gets skinny, gets a hot dress, which earns everyone's admiration, and then she pies the dude back in the face ImageImageImage
alright we are in wtf territory

that was faster than I expected ImageImage
why is the evil lady wearing louis vuitton Image
this is interesting – it's like a whole production, sort of like something from a nickelodeon show, but using... apple facemojis? clearly human actors getting paid to do this ImageImage
I feel like a bunch of this stuff is basically stuff that has always been a part of culture but it's interesting how here they just lay it out openly Image
fascinating Image

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May 2
one thing about the japanese, they will develop a special interest in something and then do it better than you
the chief sculptor of the sagrada familia basilica is a japanese guy Image
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Mar 26
there are several interesting things to be said about the mass Ghibli event

First thing is that people don’t often know in advance what they’d want out of a tool until they see it for themselves. “generate any image you can think of!” draws a blank for lot of people
so lesson in there for anybody making things; customers/users need more guidance than you might think.

Second thing is I think this is an ongoing preference cascade and consensus cascade, at least some of the people who are adamantly anti-AI concede this is a cute/fun use case
for a lot of people this is the first time they’re like “ok fine I want one for myself and heck the whole timeline is doing it so what’s so wrong if I do it too”

I think this is probably a good thing. I think it gets more ppl interested in art and visuals etc
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Feb 26
favorite subreddit I’ve discovered in a long while, /r/thatsabooklight, where people point out the mundane origins of movie props Image
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a lot of futuristic weapons turn out to be painted toys Image
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a lot of futuristic interfaces turn out to be audio/visual equipment Image
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Feb 24
i haven't really bothered to make a deliberate effort to grow my twitter following or to write bangers etc in years, but i still have a clear sense of how to do it and i've advised other people who wanted to do the same, and witnessed them succeed. here are a couple of thoughts
one of the most important things you have to remember, especially if you're still a small account starting out and trying to get more attention, is that people aren't reading your tweets in isolation. your tweets are showing up as a 'beat' on a timeline
so if your tweet is something that's moderately unclear or confusing, or has too many details, or the sentiment is too complex, people's likeliest response is to scroll past it

this changes once people know you, care about you, believe that it's worth the effort to decipher you
Read 10 tweets
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Feb 21
there’s a thing I often wish I could explain to people… but hilariously, it fits the same pattern I’m trying to explain:

a lot of the most interesting, valuable things you can do are things that have very small windows of opportunity Image
so in the case of matchmaking, a beginner matchmaker might think it’s a matter of finding the best possible people (according to some set of metrics) for the best possible people.

but the expert matchmaker will tell you that actually timing and seasonality etc matter more
in something like football you might think that the player with the most stamina, best striking ability, etc is the strongest

but the guy that scores the most goals is typically the guy who is most sensitive to the situation. Messi famously just walks around the pitch Observing Image
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Feb 9
one of the oldest stories we have on record is from 1850BC Egypt called "The Eloquent Peasant". It's fairly short yet interestingly complex. i'll try and retell it as quickly and entertainingly as i can

we begin with our boi Khun-Anup, a poor peasant just tryna sell his wares... Image
to get to the market he has to pass thru land that's owned by nobles. ultimately i believe the land is owned by the pharaoh, but it's administrated by the high steward Rensi, who in turn lets it be run by the local goon Nemtynakht... a ~4000yo matryoshka of bureaucracy Image
so anyway. the local goon Nemtynakht is a corrupt mf and decides to rob our boi Khun-Anup. he lays out a cloth across the narrow path, which is in between a river and the goon's private fields of barley.

Khun-Anup is like, pls sir, I can't move, I don't wanna trample your cloth
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