Green or red flag?

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

It's not the worst idea to see if someone you're interested in generally aligns with your interests and hobbies and isn't one of those "hidden" right wing nut cases
- YouTube's algorithm is garbage though, so that information is worthless. Pretty sure it pushes right wing stuff on anyone remotely interested in politics regardless of affiliation. As for me, my watch history is off, so that isn't possible in the first place.
I dont know, thats a pretty good way of a third Party vibecheck thats Not too intrusive
- Maybe I'm old fashioned, but back in the day you didn't need third party verification for vibes, you'd just go out for coffee or similar and grok their vibe that way.
- Except for the fact that the recommendations are completely FUBAR.
  My YouTube viewing is mostly vocal coach reaction videos, British comedy and music videos. Bit weird and nerdy, sure, but harmless.
  I was careless enough to click an unmarked link shared by a far right troll during a lemmy argument ONCE over half a year ago and I'm still getting recommended Jordan Peterson clips and other such garbage every time I watch something on YouTube rather than NewPipe or SmartTube.
  That's not a bug BTW, that's a feature of the recommendations algorithm working as intended.
- I'd show a partner my subscription list, but they'd have to listen to my explanations of which ones I watch, which are left over from when I was interested in that or that
  Not because they're embarrassing or anything, just I don't really watch the coffee equipment review channels since choosing a coffee system, and wouldn't want to be mistaken for someone who still wastes hours trying to choose how to coffee
Might want to see if their feed is full of Tate/Peterson videos
- Exactly, it’s a way to weed out guys midway through the alt right pipeline.
It was an actual possibility though. They genuinely did think about actually doing that for that mission and then for some reason didn't. So there is alternate timeline out there where that's entirely plausible. It's not a random question.

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.

It's actually a hidden test - she doesn't care about the recommendations but wants to see if you're using ReVanced.
- "I use ReVanced"
  goosebumps
I didn't even watch him, I watched videos very obviously and openly critical of his horseshit. YouTube's response is to recommend direct videos from many of these fascist sucklers.
I use YouTube specifically to dive into the right wing conservative anti-science rabbit hole. I think it important to understand how many of those people there are and what they believe. I also find it extremely entertaining, in a "this is incredibly sad" kind of way. I have fox news and evolution debunking videos in my recommendations.
Also: https://youtu.be/yuoFsi2iIi0
- Watching nutjob conspiracy videos is a great pleasure of mine. Flat Earthers are so entertaining, second only to the mountains are the fossilized limbs of miles tall trees that once existed people.
I respect not being so politically tribalistic that you can recognize when a troll like him is right about something 10% of the time. That's rare on on the internet these days.
But yeah, algorithms don't seem to get that kind of nuance.

O no

what do you mean "again"
Gonna assume that's music and not a "how to"
Well I know what I'm playing at work first thing in the morning.
Ha, we have the same recommendations

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

They can only know after watching it, after all solidjj can't be categorised based on thumbnails
Solid jj is great

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.

Teach us how to escape the matrix like you did.
- Turn off history
- Get really into videos of open network accessible security cams set to experimental dark ambient. Then fullow their creators down into Umbral Youtube and it's videos of tidepool cams, paracausal physics discussions and Saint Seiya AMVs set to Chilean Poetry literature class lecture notes.

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

And even if she was talking to you she’d sprint away after that response
- That too

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

And I really don't want to explain NewPipe or that I'm silently judging her for having youtube recommendations.
- Most based answer 😂
A party is a party, I’ve said way worse cringe under the influence of alcohol, especially if I was flirting with someone (which it sounds like she is).

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.

Same, got cooking vids, gaming, anime, Manga, and leather working vids.
- You giant nerd, you. :)
  Not so much manga and anime on my youtube, even though I'm also a bit of a weeb.
- Cooking, woodworking, and engineering over here. I think that would be ok. The prospective girlfriend may take issue with my wife though. And vice versa.

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

Hello, fellow "fuck you and your privacy settings" homepage enjoyer.
Seriously though, it makes me quite irrationally angry that they still have this shitty passive aggressive message on the homepage years after. Just give me my subscriptions feed instead ffs.
- Lol yeah, "Recommendations not looking right to you? Turn on history for better ones!" Uh, no, I'd rather see more videos related to what I'm currently watching and not have my feed full of videos related to something I had a passing interest in in the past. If I want to go back on an old dive, I can use the search function.
  Any mechanism you use to increase my engagement is attempting to monopolize my time for your profit (well, joke's on you, my ad blocker still works and I'll just stop using YouTube if you do manage to "force" me to watch ads).

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

Actually a red flag. Like at least 25% chance they're a neonazi
- yeah right. Have you watched that series? It’s like the greatest ww2 documentary series ever made for history lovers imo. It’s one of the few that goes into full detail about the eastern front. I put on other documentaries too though, just have to search for those that have calm deep voice that’s the right speed and I’m out in minutes. Better than everything else I’ve tried for insomnia
- I'd say it's more of a yellow flag.
- That's why I stick with Lazerpig, Animatchy and anyone they're cool with.

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

There's just so much 40k content out there. If you so much as dip your toe into it, your feed gets invaded.

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.

Somehow YouTube seems to be filtering out all the videos I play for my kid from my recommended page. I'm not complaining, but I'm surprised that it recognizes that I'm not going to choose that myself on an impulse.

Bullet dodged.

bideo games, the onion, British comedy clips, pop sci / math
my crazy doesn't affect what I watch online

I rarely watch youtube, but got this.

Light mode is going to scare her off, bro.
- My eyes get tired easily. I have tried dark mode a few times and it just gets worse. I need a bright room and a pale yellow background (#fffedf) for editing text. Also that's why ed(1) is the best editor, if I can't see the content of the file there's less text to get tired from. taps temple

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?

If I were dating you, I’d rate you highly. Do with that what you will. I’m pretty hawt too I think ;3

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

Mine has a good amount of soulsborne stuff too, but it's like 75% chess videos these days.

Actual no joke second video rec in my feed:

Yeah, when I became aware of that one, it got watched in a private tab in a different browser

I'd smash

To fight ones enemies one must know ones enemies.

Villainpedia is based.
I think so, anyway. Some people don't play video games though, I doubt they'd respect it.
- Well I wouldnt be into them so thusly it would work as a solid litmus test.

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

So he's a keeper, then

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.

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.
Speaking of, not the child focused Sesame Street, but they accidentally made it canon that in the Muppets universe whether or not Kermit the Frog exists somehow determines whether or not 9/11 happens. 2002's "A Very Muppet Christmas" is an "It's a Wonderful Life" style movie where Kermit temporarily wishes himself out of existence and is allowed to observe the resulting timeline. Shots of the Manhattan skyline in the main universe show no Twin Towers as expected, but there's a shot that clearly shows them in the background outside alternate Piggy's window. Accidental because the set designer or whoever just didn't notice them in the old still used for that window, but the implication is hilarious

That flag has no color. It's a gigantic question mark somehow devoid of everything but the question.

My recommended videos are drain cleaning, lawn maintenance, wood turning, science, and meme stuff like Stephen He.

Other than the meme stuff, I imagine the girl would get the wrong idea about both my approach to chores and my scientific background.

Drain Cleaning Australia GOAT
- RIPPER! You may not believe me when I say it folks, but there's NOWHERE I'd rather be than right here, clearing this drain with you.
All WWII stuff and AI recreations of speeches from leaders from the 20th century. Oh, and classic video games.
I’m boring AF.

Mine is pretty boring lol

Off topic but what youtube version are you using atm to patch to revanced? Mine broke a while ago, haven't been able to get it going again
- Whatever version the patcher recommends at the time is what I download

Haha looks like it would be a red flag at first

I watched that video recently

When is the wedding?

I have a video about retro games at the top of my RSS youtube feed, does that count?

Retro Game Mechanics Explained - Why Stomping Wigglers Glitches Super Mario World

Stomping wrigglers makes me think of sparkling wiggles…
Oh, sweet, a new RGME video. I know what I'm doing for the next half hour. Thanks for the heads up!

This idea checks out for me, I might move the order around with how relevant they are to my interests but the top 5 videos are:

Video essay about games I've never played
YouTube poop (doobus goobus)
Expert commentary (legaleagle)
Cat video
Coding video

Tbh I think this might encapsulate my entire personality.

Probably not a big surprise that I like to hang out in noncredibledefense.

I've got MythBusters and Dark Souls in my top two. What's a nerd flag?

Better than mine.
I have Secrets of the Motorway, the M25. You know what, I'm going to watch it

It's a good video

here are my current YouTube recommendations:

Tell me what you think of me.

your typical athiest-stay-at-home dad

Jokes on her, I disabled YouTube Recommendations

Holy shit it's mine too 😭

So did she hit or pass

I think it's a yellow flag

Sci-fi, cats, board games, AI hardware. Yep.

Wtf, why would i have a Google account to watch videos?

I guess I'm a bit of a basic bitch. I have MKBHD, Scotty Kilmer, DarkViperAU, Jordan Howlett, StevenHe, and Scott the Woz as the first few recommendations. Also I watch YouTube on the TV/desktop and shorts on my phone.