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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

My Instagram and Threads feeds are like that. Not YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Yup some days and its annoying. You click on one that you think will be genuinely interesting and if it has any woman being any level of attractive, your feed turn to thirst trap. I like woodworking and outdoors engineerinf Innocent stuff right?. Now I get the most handsome bearded athletic hunk lumberjack that keep posting log splitting videos. Took me a while to realize that it was not about that cool ax head or the wedge technic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] ready_for_qa 4 points 7 months ago

Mine has been programming, world history, and how to. They've figured me out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Mine is but it also works for getting clicks on me because monkey brain

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah it's all that and that bald firefighting bloke. Honest kind of OK with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

No, but I don't mind that. It's the only time short feed content is acceptable for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Mines all guns and motorcycles lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Is this that family friendly platform I keep hearing about?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Most of them are promoting their OF

[–] Muffi 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The algorithm force feeds you what you want to see... whether you know it or not

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Judging purely from what you've already clicked on.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yes, but for some reason it's asian women doing sports. I never watch shorts anyway so whatever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

With shorts, yes. I don't really watch shorts tho. Their suggestions for horizontal videos are mostly news, cars, robots, and woodworking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Mine is standup comedy, quick videos on how to use modern weapons, quick videos on how to use medieval weapons, FPS gamers doing crazy moves, and those guys who make love action shorts about video games.

My advice is stop giving thumbs up to the softcore porn.

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