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Here's a few examples:

The Popcast (recently made a video warning of the "dangers" of the Barbie movie because it's feminist. Now Im going to go see it lol), Midnights Edge (general right wing conspiracy theories regarding media, occasional delving into new age crank too), Nerdrotic (thinks Hollywood is engineering a communist Red Guards plot to kill conservatives), The Critical Drinker (typical edgelord anti feminist), Dave Cullen (extreme anti feminist who believes in all the QAnon, Agenda 21 conspiracy theories).

And it goes on and on. I know there's popular left wing and liberal reviewers too, but for whatever reason so many of the ones I run into are far right. Is there some sort of draw for conservatives to geekdom or is something else going on?

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[–] LostMyRedditLogin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can try deleting your cookie for YouTube.com and deleting your history on the site to restart your recommendations.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

They've just disabled the front page completely if you have an account that doesn't store watch history - I was hoping they would use favorites and liked videos to form recommendations but apparently it's just the "watched" flag being used.

Still, maybe you can curate that flag by removing anything from watched history that you don't want influencing the front page?