LOL What subjects is your YouTube home page OBSESSED with suggesting videos about?

I think I have too many tech channel subscriptions, 6 bloomin' review videos just dropped for the new oneplus

 

Yeah this is why I had to unsub from several, there's only so many PC build videos I can care about!

 

I get Lindsay Ellis, Tom Scott and Jim Sterling all the time. Strangely I hardly ever get Folding Ideas, despite him being one of my favourite content creators - maybe it's just because he doesn't upload very often.

I made the mistake of watching something vaguely in the clickbait region - "best memes of 2020" or whatever. Now it's all gone to hell. Clickbait is like a virus waiting to infect your algorithm.

 

YT seems obsessed with Shatner at the moment.

 

Most of my suggestions were for gameplay tutorials, I think I see PewdePie almost every day when I open YT.

 

I keep getting various local news from Australia mixed in among the expected stuff because reasons.

 

Interesting...I'm middle aged, have used Google for years, use gPay and so on. I have never, ever been age-checked until a few months ago, when I randomly got age-checked on some controversial video from a sketchy channel about an alt-right talking point (I forget what it was). I wasn't scandalized given the video's content.

I just now got age-checked again on this one and had to provide a proof of ID or enter my credit card to view it:





If you're familiar with this woman you'll know how ridiculous and deeply suspect it is that this should end up age-restricted. It stinks, frankly.

Reading between the lines, some people are abusing Youtube's report functionality to flag videos that go against their political alignment as containing age-restricted content.

 

I liked a video showing how to install a floppy drive in a Windows 98 PC and now YT thinks I want fascinating videos about installing floppies...

For some reason I get that when looking at some videos on my mobile, but can watch them on PC.

 

Comments suggest it might be down fairly extreme violence shown within clips/excerpts in the video, not what is said/the opinions expressed.

 

No problems here. And a good 4-5 minute watch.

 

I've seen that silly verification on some movie review lol...

I've got to say though:
As a long term Android user with multiple cards registered on Google Pay I find the idea of entering my card details on youtube to verify my age utterly hilarious.

 

Latterly on reflection it does seem plausible that the violent content is the technical reason for the restriction. Some of those movie clips, though tastefully edited, are pretty disturbing.

The strange thing is I've never had this on any other videos, even ones containing car crashes, fights, et cetera, both real and simulated. Very odd. Either the channel got a sudden urge to constrain their own audience by listing it just in case, or some bad faith people spammed report on it. I know YouTube people too well, and I know where my money is.

I can understand why, generally, credit cards are used to verify age even on signed-in devices, though - child protection. Kid picks up parent's phone kinda scenario. They often know the pin to unlock it.

The restriction makes sense and would be reasonable if it was, like, a scene from Silent Hill. I'm not so sure it makes sense in this context. Enter your credit card to see some vague snippets of people punching each other in a movie, interspersed with positivity narration about race relations? It's not exactly American History X, is it.