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Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by dspillett »

crazygringo wrote: post #14
twisteriffic wrote: post #10

Least favourite behavior of YouTube these days is the mass of pimple popping and wart removal videos that show up near the top of search results for damn near anything. "Fluke 87v power on options"? Pimple popping. "Generator repair"? Wart removal. And it isn't just one, it's dozens of them, to the point where there might only be one or two relevant results and the rest are basically gore/grossout videos. It's still…

I think somebody watched a lot of pimple-popping videos while logged into your account. You might want to take a look at your viewing history: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history Because that's definitely not a default. I've never seen YouTube recommend one of those in my life.

Never watched them myself, and doubt anyone did with my account, but I sometimes get such videos presented as if it is something I'd want. I have had lodgers and sometimes have guests who will obviously have appeared from my IP addresses while on my wireless so that may be part of why I get certain things (one of the lodgers was Italian - that was many years ago, and I still occasionally get adverts in the language). Also it only takes one accidental click to register as “engagement” - maybe I have done that with a slip of the mouse/finger at some point.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#72

Post by justsomehnguy »

user_7832 wrote: post #66
throwaway4roel wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked with him and he was as weird as you'd expect. He got let go after getting in someone's face for saying "oh my god", because it's "taking god's name in vain". (: He used to do that back then too, AFAIK they were absolutely autogenerated. (throwaway because I don't want him to harass me, he does do that too)

Would you be okay sharing if he is/was he based in the US? His name seems a bit European/Dutch to me.

Australia it seems: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zCmAXjlJb8g

Also he specifically links Au version of Linkedin in his bio.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#73

Post by yen223 »

twisteriffic wrote: post #56
yen223 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I searched "Fluke 87v power on options" on YouTube in an incognito page, and all I got were results around the multimeter. Like literally, my screen only had pictures of multimeters. For good measure I repeated the search in my main Youtube account. Same thing.

https://i.postimg.cc/J49KjXZ2/Screenshot-20240215-183710.png It's likely some coincidence of my previous viewing history, though how woodworking, small engine repair and distributed systems pointed to grossout videos I have no idea. I've heard of at least a dozen other people that this happens to so far across a wide range of viewing habits.

This is what I see: https://imgur.com/tvLgAjQ

Lots of sponsored ads, but they are all multimeter-related.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#74

Post by RajT88 »

dspillett wrote: post #71
crazygringo wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think somebody watched a lot of pimple-popping videos while logged into your account. You might want to take a look at your viewing history: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history Because that's definitely not a default. I've never seen YouTube recommend one of those in my life.

Never watched them myself, and doubt anyone did with my account, but I sometimes get such videos presented as if it is something I'd want. I have had lodgers and sometimes have guests who will obviously have appeared from my IP addresses while on my wireless so that may be part of why I get certain things (one of the lodgers was Italian - that was many years ago, and I still occasionally get adverts in the language).…

Hint: Allegedly most of the people who watch the pimple popping videos are women.

It feels accurate. My middle-aged sister definitely does.

Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by 015a »

My favorite YouTube oddity: If you hunt over the CSS the site downloads on, IIRC, every page; you'll eventually come across this selector:

    ytd-watch-metadata[video-id=QrGrOK8oZG8] h1.ytd-watch-metadata {
      color:#e6d140;
      font-family:Georgia,serif;
      font-size:250%;
      font-variant:small-caps;
      font-weight:normal;
      transform:skew(-5deg,0deg);
      text-shadow:1px 1px #000,1px 1px .1px #000
    }
A selector that appears to be referencing a very specific video ID; as far as I can tell, the only video in the billions of videos on YouTube to receive this treatment (at least, in terms of a "css selector with video-id in it").

The video: Adult Swim's "Too Many Cooks" skit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8)

Re: YouTube Oddities

#76

Post by k12sosse »

jsheard wrote: post #22
rwmj wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like the kind of video spam that now shows up in searches for technical questions.

Those seem to be getting more common, it's very annoying. Another genre is autogenerated "product review" or "comparison" videos that are just ChatGPT-generated fluff copy read out by text-to-speech voice over a slideshow of product images, presumably to push an affiliate link in the description. Most of them get few if any views but they're so easy to make they just take the shotgun approach and hope some win the SE…

It pays to have an account if you don't - train that shit into oblivion!

Re: YouTube Oddities

#77

Post by nonethewiser »

015a wrote: post #75

My favorite YouTube oddity: If you hunt over the CSS the site downloads on, IIRC, every page; you'll eventually come across this selector: ytd-watch-metadata[video-id=QrGrOK8oZG8] h1.ytd-watch-metadata { color:#e6d140; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:250%; font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:normal; transform:skew(-5deg,0deg); text-shadow:1px 1px #000,1px 1px .1px #000 } A selector that appears to be referencin…

That is fascinating. Wonder why that video in particular (or any single video that in theory) would need its text style changed.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#78

Post by nonethewiser »

twisteriffic wrote: post #10

Least favourite behavior of YouTube these days is the mass of pimple popping and wart removal videos that show up near the top of search results for damn near anything. "Fluke 87v power on options"? Pimple popping. "Generator repair"? Wart removal. And it isn't just one, it's dozens of them, to the point where there might only be one or two relevant results and the rest are basically gore/grossout videos. It's still…

Well not for me

Re: YouTube Oddities

#79

Post by verve_rat »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #55
verve_rat wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Read the rest of the responses here. It's not history.

I have, and I'm not convinced history doesn't play a role. No need to be rude about it.

I'm sorry if I came off as rude, but "your holding it wrong" doesn't exactly engineer civility.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#80

Post by from-nibly »

015a wrote: post #75

My favorite YouTube oddity: If you hunt over the CSS the site downloads on, IIRC, every page; you'll eventually come across this selector: ytd-watch-metadata[video-id=QrGrOK8oZG8] h1.ytd-watch-metadata { color:#e6d140; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:250%; font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:normal; transform:skew(-5deg,0deg); text-shadow:1px 1px #000,1px 1px .1px #000 } A selector that appears to be referencin…

Wow Georgia font for a movie about Georgia actors
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