Definite green flag for the video. Red flag for the girl, because who the fuck asks about that?

It isn't a good test, because YouTube algorithms are shitty. For example, I disagree with Ben Shapiro probably 90% of the time and think he's an odious troll, but because I watched him in a debate once, YT pushed videos of him for months after.

O no

For those that don't know this actually could have happened. The idea of Big Bird being on the Challenger was floated around by the big wigs.

I genuinely don't know how a potential date would react to this lol

I would probably counter with "you wanna see my subscriptions instead? cuz I don't fucks with no recommendations" and then she'd just walk away because she probably wasn't even talking to me in the first place

I got an email from Youtube about 11 years ago that simply said: "the algorithm has abandoned you."

And now whenever I go there all I get is a weird orange and green moire pattern.

I get her point but that's kinda cringy to say out loud

My youtube recs would mostly just out me as a huge fucking nerd who's into cooking, I think it may be a rare W.

Joke's on them; I disabled history a long time ago, so YouTube can't recommend things to me now.

Fuck that. I’ve already got a hard enough time dating while not using Instagram and Facebook. Shits gone too far. I fall asleep every night to Battlefield series of WW2 documentaries

My YT recommendations are full of game lore and Warhammer 40K. I don't care about either, but Youtube really, really wants me to.

I get to play this YouTube game with students every time me or one of them play a clip as part of a presentation, assuming we're logged in (and we often are, as students and myself use Google Drive).

For me, I simply reveal my love of video games (and since having kids, slews of kid music) but for them it's a wild mix of ASMR, make up videos, musical tastes, and so on. Nothing too crazy yet, but its only a matter of time.

I'm grateful I at least have the foresight to use burner accounts for things like watching cringy movies (I listen to podcasts that make fun of them, so that's a thing). It'd be pretty funny if something like Pandemic 3 popped up in my feed, haha.

Bullet dodged.

Hypothetical:

The app isn't installed on my phone so they go to browser instead, page takes a moment to load because of VPN, YT either asks to log in or it asks to turn on watch history in order to get recommendations.

I know from the get-go I'm either getting rated really really highly or really low, or that the reviewer will be dumbfounded. What do you think?

I rarely watch youtube, but got this.

I have a bunch of Soulsborne videos and stuff about the X-Men. My wife already knows this and doesn’t care. LOL

Actual no joke second video rec in my feed:

I'd smash

To fight ones enemies one must know ones enemies.

So he's a keeper, then

Little Joel, Veritasium, Vaush, a perfect representation of me as a person

Hope she likes Pete Seeger, bread tube, and educational videos, because if she doesn’t I can do better

That would have been the weirdest tangent on a Wikipedia page. Jim Henson, Muppets, Sesame Street, retired characters, Big Bird oh was that an early version of Abelardo?, Challenger shuttle dis-- what. What? What the fuck?!

When the guy who played Mr. Hooper died, they worked that into the show. The cast, sincerely grieving, had to explain to a seven-foot-tall canary that he wasn't coming back. That's not really he same kind of intrusion from reality, as acknowledging the same giant fowl fucking exploded on national television.

The only possible comparison would be if some show had a gimmicky live episode that happened to be scheduled for 9 AM, on a Tuesday, in September of 2001.