YouTube is a shit show, we all know that, but it’s a shit show with an agenda. Anyone who thinks otherwise is out of their mind. When YouTube recommends videos to you, it’s one part marketing and one part political pandering and personally, I’m kind of sick of it.

So let’s look at one example. Unfortunately, there are others.

I’ve spent some time trying to train YouTube’s algorithm to show me what I actually want to see. That entails going through recommendations and telling them “don’t show me more from this channel” about 50 times on every recommendation page. Sometimes, it feels like it works, most of the time I know it’s a complete waste of time, but this is one place that absolutely  doesn’t work at all.

Now the way it’s supposed to work is that, based on the things that you watch, they’re supposed to show you more content like that, figuring that’s what you’re interested in. It’s really a problem though because you know that if you click on a video that’s outside of your range of interested topics, if you get bored and want to watch something that catches your eye, for example, a cat video, for weeks and months thereafter, you’re going to get nothing but cat videos until you manage to train the algorithm again. It’s why I bypass things that might be worth a minute or two of my time, but that I know will waste unending hours trying to get rid of it again.

YouTube sucks that way.

However, where it’s very clear that they aren’t interested in  your actual preferences is when it comes to their clear political bias. The number of very clear left-leaning videos that I get shoved into my recommendations is legendary.

It isn’t like they can say I’ve watched any videos that might get it into their recommendation scheme. I never have. I never will. If I tell the algorithm enough times to knock it off, it ought to respect my wishes but it never does.

Now you might say, “but it’s Black History Month! Of course you’re  going to get those videos!” Yet it’s been happening for months and months and months. This has nothing at all to do with any particular month, this is YouTube’s political bias machine running full speed  24/7/365.

I’ve also noticed that the overwhelming majority of videos on “racism against blacks” is made by white YouTubers. Funny, that. In fact, across the board, the overwhelming majority of people whining about how bad black people have it, they’re all white. I have legitimately heard from some of these people, who clearly aren’t listening to the words coming out of their own mouths, that the poor black victims need white saviors to do what’s best for them because clearly, they can’t do it  for themselves.

And then they call us racists.

Sorry, the last thing I need to see is a bunch of young, white, college-educated but reality-deprived hardcore liberals telling me that I’m a bad person, just because I’m white, in the name of white-knighting minorities without even consulting their supposed “cause”. These aren’t videos on black history, these are all far-left causes. Defund the police because… racism. Get rid of conservatives because… racism. White people are bad because… racism. The amount of blindness in all of this is just astounding, yet that’s what the far-left are programmed to do.

I’m not telling them that they can’t make whatever idiotic content they want to make, I’m just saying that I shouldn’t have to have it forced on me against my will. It’s fine if you want to float a video or two on actual history in February and if I don’t bite, it should just go away. Instead, it’s a constant barrage of politically motivated messaging that I can’t escape from. Their algorithm is terrible enough as it is, I dismiss far more than I actually watch. 95% of every screen is filled with “We won’t recommend videos from this channel to you again” notices, but when it comes to their political content, it just comes back again and again. It is completely immune from “knock it off!” The exact same videos that I just told YouTube I don’t want to see, if I refresh my screen, those exact same videos are back.

Of course, YouTube doesn’t  care. This isn’t about providing the best  content for their customers, it’s about pushing a message whether you want to see it or not. So I will continue to tell them what they can do with their left-leaning bull crap and they will continue to push it on me anyhow. You can’t expect better from Silicon Valley. They’re all a bunch of leftist assholes and I, for one, am sick of it.