Thread by @visakanv

this is a fun idea I can show you how I would spend a day on incognito youtube

https://twitter.com/zstorok/status/1418501552298500099

so here's a selection of what's available,

and here's what I'd start with

here are some of the related vids in each of those

and so from here I'd basically end up on DIY / restoration youtube

a few other clicks and I'm on agriculture youtube, chef/teppenyaki youtube, rajasthan gypsies, afghan shepherds

less than 10 minutes I have already trained the algorithm to serve things that I like to see

now hanging out in Rio. It actually kinda feels quite a bit like parts of southeast asia

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"

annoying things GFs do

more missing and murdere stuff

they were cursing my unborn child...instant regret... gordon's massive meltdown...

woman is addicted to sugar... more instant regret, fat shaming,

this is actually taking longer than I hoped

i have been brought to @MrBeast

@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

hoping that this will let me get to race war youtube

come on youtube algorithm. race war, race war, race war...

come onnnnn youtube get me to the good stuff

this is cutesy baby stuff. where's the IQ stuff and the skull shape and whatnot

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

the brutal truth: "maybe spend less time on twitch and on female streamer chats"

aha I've finally gotten to peterson!

thoughts on hitler! yessss

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!

these are all in the related vids

gotten to fox news

how my front page looks like after all that work

had to take a break for a call but i'm back! again, I"m more interested in the compound butter, but... for science,

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

https://twitter.com/zstorok/status/1418518109267365889

I'm bored I give up

might try starting over to get to Elsagate

gotten to kidtube pretty fast but nothing creepy yet

kidtube changes the homepage *fast*

ok this is kind of weird

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

alright we are in wtf territory

that was faster than I expected

why is the evil lady wearing louis vuitton

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

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

fascinating