r/youtube

I need me a 3 hour video breaking down a topic I know nothing about I miss them so much

YouTube has a lot of unqualified creators making profit off of content for children and a large portion of it is not healthy for their minds. For more specifics, I mean all the DRAMA content!!! One example is Minecraft, minecraft videos on YouTube are filled with drama and uneducated children arguing and fighting, bad language,violence, and teaching the viewers( who are the kids BTW) to pick up on such nasty behaviors.

For the past few months or maybe years, I can't even remember at this point my entire youtube feed has been flooded with video essays / deep-dives into drama, politics, or why everything sucks today.

Honestly, most of these videos have absolutely no substance. They use dramatic titles but say nothing at all, just recycling internet drama or stating the obvious.

I am so SICK of it, it feels like it’s the only thing left (though I know it's probably just my algorithm). When I go to youtube, I want to be entertained and watch something fun. Instead all I get is this endless stream of commentary about anything.

And please, don't recommend me those massive, full-size production videos either, I have my own issues with that too.

I don't even know what kind of content I want anymore because I can't remember what the platform used to look like. But I do remember that it used to be way more fun (or maybe i was just more young).

Please give me your favorite channels that are just entertainment. I need to fix my algorithm!

I cant find my liked videos and stuff now. When I click the "You". It takes me to my channel and not to my Playlists. Can you guys show me how to get to the liked videos now?

I don't know what's going on but for the past 3-ish months my YouTube homepage has been 20-30% videos I have no interest in and 50% videos I've already watched. Did the algorithm break? Has anyone else experienced this? I have to actively dig for content I actually want to watch and I'm afraid to downvote the videos I've already watched because I did enjoy them and don't want to confuse the algorithm further. But, for example, I watched a couple music videos (like literally 2) a few months ago and now 25% of my homepage recommendations are music videos?!

What is going on with YouTube?

Sometimes the shorts I see are so long that I might as well just watch a regular video, at that point why not just upload a video?

So, I got fed up with the horrible choice YouTube has been using for a while, and got the Premium Lite membership. It said that I would get no ads, I can download videos, and I could play videos in the background. So tell me why I’m getting occasional ads in the short feed! Like, YouTube! What the heck? You force my hand by giving me ads of inappropriate sites and chatbots, charge me monthly to remove the ads, and then you don’t even remove all the ads!

(Edit) turns out some ads for specific things still go through. Thank you to those who have answered that, and YouTube you win this round.

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