No words, all action: a YouTube exception when it happens, not always ethical...

[Egzoset]

Salutations,

A couple years ago i started to watch dogs and cats on YT, only to realize some significant part of it actually been staged, even faked on top of abusing anthropomorphism and more. Then i discovered the cabview series (dulevoz, RailCowGirl, etc.), followed by 1st-person rides, for example this most superlative sample:

Andromeda Anarchia's DARKMATTERS: The Angel's Fall (feat. SVEN UGAU) [2018-Sep-18]

Too bad its title fails so miserably at describing what's that all about.

Very recently i paid attention to the off-grid category so the name Bjorn Brenton finally popped up (after 3+ years...), quite probably because i'm now more curious relatively to Ukraine news. Go figure, perhaps YT's robot also managed to fit the man's admirable legacy right in, though just this morning i was suggested a shocking suicide scene occuring in front of many contemplative witnesses waiting for the fatal conclusion, pointing their cellular phones directly at the victim. Shame on YouTube! Of course there's a possibility to report such despicable clickbait but i won't be surprized to find it in my search results again and again, which is the price to pay for accessing the best and the worse in their decadent universe, unless one has installed this fine browser extension:

FireFox add-ons for YouTube - 'Unhook'​

Which is the flip-side of that coin. The page looks quite blank but this is the price to pay too...

Good day, have fun!!

 

[KGIII]

Shame on YouTube!

To be fair, Google has no way of knowing. More video gets uploaded in an hour than you can watch in you lifetime. It's just an algorithm trying to match you with things that will keep your attention.

They can't possibly monitor everything and their moderation depends on people using the report feature.

 

[Egzoset]

Large volumes are no excuse for every abusive event.

Yes, it wants to capture and keep my attention. No, that thing makes a poor psychiatrist.

 

[bob466]

I can't watch youtube unless I sign in now...most videos are click bait.

 

[Egzoset]

Clickbait sounds too accommodating when talking about YouTube & co., really, or maybe that's translating an excess of christian-like charity: « everyone is innocent until guilty », right? ...

Well there are serious ethical and legal issues implied by the addition of such intrusive 3rd-party inserting itself between the content creator and his target viewer, in YT's case the range of "distortion" reaches way beyond simple cynism if you ask me; to be honest my conclusion been that somewhere somehow it was determined my "fidelization" could be accomplished via a sort of paradoxal (masochist?) attachment acquired by escalating the level of frustrating search "misses". Briefly put, by emulating the defiance of a teasing bully, which is the quality of service i get until i log off exactly...

Why would i want to log off? To find all positive results which are typically denied after i'm connected as a registered member! Moreover, it turns out i realized a couple years ago that i had 2 accounts and the main reason why there never were reactions to my comments was just this: nobody saw them, which was the ultimate form of provocation, so i thought... And of course the machine kept collecting my viewer statistics and eventually developped counter-measures! So much for fairplay in a family spirit.

The robot has turned vicious enough to show a living man getting his head crushed and his body twisted under a train while a bunch of morbid/decadent social-media freaks wished to capture some bloody splash they'd be the 1st to post on YouTube! If that's what i'm expected to be looking for, well it's certainly a huge mistake to the very least. If it's an attempt to antagonize in hope for destructive feedback that's still a bad mistake, an insulting one in both cases.

YouTube's "algorythm" monitored my use, knows when i watched every second religiously, remembers how long it took for me to respond after a random pause... Or when it's been worth a replay, etc. It's also quite aware of the unwanted content i've reported and all the flags i used, yet it's like the more i report the more those suggestions resurface again (and even preferably to the content i really care for)!

Is short not-so-ethical programming appears to gradually transform a trivial entertaining habit into affective slavery which "expertly" involves the darkest meanders of the human mind if not prepared. As if an adversorial human were helping the machine.

Then come the legal aspects and hence i only find mandatory logins are a basic requirement, the service providers have stated their conditions and we remain free to accept or refuse the invitation; you won't find me on TikTok and i've been quick to walk away from Reddit. I'll never get the full measure of what's "missed", too bad!

In addition, i try to have consideration for content creators. Who wants to go full fledge paying real money to maintain their own web site just to post dog & cat videos that we can download for free? There has to be compensation and most would abandon the idea before they choose to be philanthropic, not to mention there has to be rules.

My initial point was that YouTube demands of its members a level of ethical standards it's not actually holding themselves by repetively disregarding reports of abuse and more. Suicide in direct is only one cherry on that cake, personally i believe our societies failed at education, then failed with censorship & libertarism vs children, and now filling young unprepared human minds with images imported @ 3+ Mbps, directly from hell!