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I miss the old youtube recommendation algorithm that would recommend obscure, thematically unrelated videos. It was a great way to discover strange videos and you could spend a lot of time going down the rabbit hole.

Now the recommendation algorithm is too refined and personalized. There's a lot less variety in the recommendations and they all tend to fit inside a categorical bubble of (actually related videos+your "interests"). The only "surprises" that show up in the recommendations now are shitty videos specifically designed to rank high on the recommendation algorithm using various tricks.