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Comment by robertlagrant

4 days ago

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This is honestly kind of shocking. Do you just avoid looking up any kind of political video?

  • If you look at his most recent comment history you can see a trend of either being a troll or an unaware/aware jerk. Not entirely surprising.

  • No, I watch political videos, but nothing as far to the right as the alt right, I don't think. Maybe once?

    • I'm surprised. I've been blocking Jordan Peterson videos for years from YouTube, and I still get recommended something with him in it weekly. I also don't watch political videos generally on the platform.

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  • I've also never gotten those sort of YT recommendations, and that is exactly what I do. I never click links to political videos. My entire recommended section is full of stuff from channels I've watched before, or very close to it.

  • I found your comment surprising. I have literally never even considered looking for political videos online. They're enough of them shoved in my face everywhere I turn without me needing to seek them out.

Then you either curate your feed very well or you don't use YouTube at all. Spend a couple of days indiscriminately watching whatever slop the algorithm recommends and you'll start seeing some eyebrow raising content.