Venting a hundred times nothing
Oct. 18th, 2022 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marmota_bI need YouTube to introduce other options for when you click on "Not Interested".
Something like:
- "Genuinely just not interested in this particular subject, that's a valid reason not to be interested"
- "The subject is something I'm actively trying to avoid for reasons that are none of your business"
- "The title of this video insults my sensibilities for helpful unvarnished factuality"
- "Even though I might be interested in the subject on general terms, everything about this particular video's title and preview tells me the style of this particular video will not be my cup of tea"
- "I love this channel but this one particular video looks like very much not my cup of tea and I'd prefer if you stopped recommending it"
- "I might even be interested in this video under other circumstances but right now I want to let someone responsible know that the automatic translation of the video's clickbaity title is absolutely awful and hurts my brain with how much it misses the mark for what sounds natural and inviting in my native tongue and culture, please turn it back into the source language"
- "Several of the above"
I'm finding myself very often opting out of baking videos with titles that are something like "You won't believe this awesome cake! Only 15 minutes! Grandma's recipe!" or "Forget XY, I only do this now!" None of that info is anything I find the most important ingredient of a recipe title, and that usually leaves me thinking that, with how many recipes exist out there, I can easily live without this one. Sadly, YouTube's algorhythm does not yet seem to possess the ability to recognise the incompatibility between a specific user and a specific style of video title. So if I remember, I usually opt out of those channels altogether, and for a while YouTube will get the message, and then it will look at my subscriptions to the Townsends channel and Tasting History and go "She's interested in baking!" all over again.
Something like:
- "Genuinely just not interested in this particular subject, that's a valid reason not to be interested"
- "The subject is something I'm actively trying to avoid for reasons that are none of your business"
- "The title of this video insults my sensibilities for helpful unvarnished factuality"
- "Even though I might be interested in the subject on general terms, everything about this particular video's title and preview tells me the style of this particular video will not be my cup of tea"
- "I love this channel but this one particular video looks like very much not my cup of tea and I'd prefer if you stopped recommending it"
- "I might even be interested in this video under other circumstances but right now I want to let someone responsible know that the automatic translation of the video's clickbaity title is absolutely awful and hurts my brain with how much it misses the mark for what sounds natural and inviting in my native tongue and culture, please turn it back into the source language"
- "Several of the above"
I'm finding myself very often opting out of baking videos with titles that are something like "You won't believe this awesome cake! Only 15 minutes! Grandma's recipe!" or "Forget XY, I only do this now!" None of that info is anything I find the most important ingredient of a recipe title, and that usually leaves me thinking that, with how many recipes exist out there, I can easily live without this one. Sadly, YouTube's algorhythm does not yet seem to possess the ability to recognise the incompatibility between a specific user and a specific style of video title. So if I remember, I usually opt out of those channels altogether, and for a while YouTube will get the message, and then it will look at my subscriptions to the Townsends channel and Tasting History and go "She's interested in baking!" all over again.