Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "My Video Went Viral. Here's Why" video.

  1. I am subscribed to very few channels, and have notifications turned on for only a couple, and so my feed (always android phone) is pretty much entirely algorithm driven, and it does a very good job (most of the time lol) in showing me videos I will watch. And as far as educational content, that's most of what it shows me, because that's most of what I watch. So in my vast sample size, the algorithm doesn't have a problem showing educational content, it just doesn't brother showing it to people who mainly binge on pewtypie and gossip channels. I watched the black balls video not because of, or truth be told in spite of the clickbaity title, but because I drive past it frequently, and I have read about it in the past. YouTube has been trying to shove this video down my eyeballs repeatedly since, and it has probably shown up on my home list 5 or 6 times, and more than that in the below a video list, and it didn't really sound interesting, or more accurately, it sounded like a clickbait video with some interesting content (which it turned out to be lol) I was bored and there wasn't anything else on, and decided to watch it as much to make YouTube quit suggesting it as anything! Oh, and most of the channels that I subscribe to, and most of videos that I Like, I do so because I feel the creator deserves help and support, not because I want to be notified. Oh, and because the algorithm is so tailored to what I watch, if I want to watch a pewtypie video or something else from the mindless stew of YouTube, I turn on incognito mode, because I don't want the algorithm thinking that I want more lol
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