Does anyone else just randomly get recommended anti-woman videos on YouTube?

Exotic_Boot_9219 · 2024-08-29T19:33:36+00:00

Do you watch gaming content? Auto racing? Car videos? History Docs?

My husband is about as um-redpilled as they come, but when he watches his Formula 1 highlights on the weekend, it turns our YT recommended section into Manosphere Central for a bit. He always says that he worries for kids who are interested in cars (or any other special interests that skew societally masculine-coded). Especially autistic kids - if you have a special interest in cars or gaming or building robots, and you dive into videos about it constantly, there's a high potential for crossover (my husband has ASD).

ooa3603 · 2024-08-29T21:28:22+00:00

Short answer: This is a byproduct of what happens when you combine the amoral nature of capitalism and human psychology.

Long answer:

I'm a software developer who also has experience in development for social media marketing companies.

The most important thing for social media is engagement. That is the length of time and variety of interaction a person will put into a social media post. More engagement means more money.

This is because engagement is a reflection of deeper emotional connection to the post.

The more emotional people get about something, the longer it stays in their mind.

Marketing is about manipulating emotions

So that's the capitalistic part.

Now have you heard about cognitive biases? For background. There is an objective reality, the real world/universe and a subjective reality, your mind. Your physical brain cannot fully grasp the objective reality because it's literally stored in the darkness of your skull, so it uses your senses (eyes, ears, nose, smell, proprioception etc) to create an internal model of the world so it can figure out whats going on. This and a whole bunch of other processes results in your mind and the internal subjective reality it creates for itself.

Staying alive is about gathering as much inputs from your senses as possible so that your subjective internal model of reality is as close as possible to the objective reality so that you can make choices and judgements that let you avoid the dangers of the objective reality. Your interpretation and model of reality, not the objective inputs, is what actually dictates your behavior in the objective reality .

A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of inaccurate judgment of reality. It's when you create your own inaccurate subjective reality" from poor interpretation of your senses and thoughts rather than whats actually there. Cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, and irrationality>

One of those cognitive biases is the Negativity Bias Quote: The negativity bias, also known as the negativity effect, is a cognitive bias that, even when positive or neutral things of equal intensity occur, things of a more negative nature (e.g. unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than neutral or positive things. In other words, something very positive will generally have less of an impact on a person's behavior and cognition than something equally emotional but negative.

It is a cognitive bias where you are more emotional about negative events than positive ones. Because remember, the more emotional you are about something, the longer you remember it.

Humanity as a species has a negativity bias (varying from person to person) due to the effects of evolutionary adaptations on our psychology. It is argued that in order to survive our brutal objective reality, our ancestors had to be extra sensitive to danger. Extra sensitive to negative outcomes.

Now that I've laid down that ground knowledge:

The algorithms implemented by social media companies are programmed to push content the generates the most engagement.

What drives the most engagement?

Posts that make you emotional. What generates the most emotions? Well due to Negativity Bias, the ones that instill fear and anger.

The algorithm has been programmed to always push posts that generate the most emotion. And because it's not just collecting information from you, but from users all over the internet, it's seeing the negativity bias inherent in humanity and acting accordingly.

It seems the algorithm can't take a hint and I'm still bombarded with this type of content.

You need to actively tell it to stop by selecting the options like "Don't show me posts like these."

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/964154640320617

IG: https://help.instagram.com/682833393310241

Youtube/Google: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6342839?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

Polish_Girlz · 2024-08-29T18:53:10+00:00

yes, same with a ton of trump ads, it’s crazy

Desecr8or · 2024-08-29T21:56:32+00:00

Not since I downloaded an extension that allows me to block whole channels.

PutsWomenOnPedestal · 2024-08-29T19:02:37+00:00

I don’t look at YouTube recommendations, so I don’t even know what is being recommended. But couldn’t you browse incognito? That should flummox the algorithm

Polish_Girlz · 2024-08-30T03:14:25+00:00

I noticed this a lot on YouTube before until I started watching left wing content. It was really blackpilling and made me feel like I was inadequate or men didn't want me. When I watch more left leaning content I start to think maybe a guy will want me LOL

Mobile_Yoghurt_2840 · 2024-08-30T11:55:53+00:00

At first I thought they were spiritual messages brought into YouTube as communication from spirits due to me practicing meditation a lot and spiritual stuff, so from my practices it invites spiritual beings. So I thought these were messages, then I thought, why would spirits send such horrible content? I questioned and figured it must be my algorithm. I try to remove all of my red pill content as possible. I progressed a lot from being red pill conservative into a free spirited being. I now dislike the red pill stuff

sensibl3chuckle · 2024-08-30T11:36:19+00:00

Yes, recently I had one recommended, iirc it was Aaron Claney about how "Women just don't like men", his master theory of how men have a hard time getting da girls because girls just don't like men that much. I'm pretty sure that misogyny at this level qualifies as terrorism.

Personal_Dirt3089 · 2024-08-29T22:13:21+00:00

Yup, constantly. I have no idea if this is coincidence or if these people figured out how to manipulate the algorithm.

KingMysoFutureHdrx · 2024-08-31T08:54:05+00:00

guy just outed himself 😭

hitomi-kanzaki · 2024-09-18T04:47:23+00:00

I don’t usually browse YouTube. I look up the particular video I want to see, watch it and that’s it. I’ve only looked through YouTube shorts ONCE. And during that time it showed me several misogynistic videos. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is how my close friend got involved in RP since he’s told me he looks at YouTube when he’s bored. With Instagram and Facebook I notice it relies on your search history. YouTube just.. seems to show it to everyone?? My history would be very left leaning too.

Electronic_Age3078 · 2025-11-09T17:35:00+00:00

I thought mass anti-woman content is only thing for Russia or not greatest countries in the world, where everybody presumably wants to be married to rich foreigner. For some reason i get tons of anti woman recommendarions, how bad they are, how much money you lose on them, how easily you can be replaced in relationships with them, how they cheat on you with half of your city.

Title	Does anyone else just randomly get recommended anti-woman videos on YouTube?
Author	LoomingsThrowaway
Upvotes	49
Comments	25
Date	August 29, 2024 6:39 PM UTC (1 year ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/ExRedPill
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/exredpill/comments/1f49zww/does_anyone_else_just_randomly_get_recommended/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/ExRedPill/does-anyone-else-just-randomly-get-recommended.1528787 https://theredarchive.com/post/1528787

Comments