What is balatro?
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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Ha! I made this mistake when looking for a morning joe video to use to make fun of my hardcore right wing friend. Now all I see is those shit heads on my algo.
Free autism diagnosis by the algorithm
If I ever watch one Mr. Bean YouTube video, all my suggestions become Mr. Bean. I mean he's ok but they literally have the same video uploaded to multiple channels with slightly different names.
Give me more different Mr. Bean. Stop repeating the Bean.
Unfortunately there's only like, 10 Mr. Bean episodes. Not much "more different" to go off of there.
That realisation was what made me doubt all of my childhood memories.
Kid me was sure there was at least 50 episodes of an hour each. Nope. Only 14. All less than half an hour long.
You're using YouTube wrong. You're supposed to set your default page to the subscriptions page.
Yep. The suggestion algorithm is way too aggressive. Keep in mind you can remove individual videos from your watch history.
Agreed. You watch one video and the entire homepage changes.
I think maybe it’s geared towards people who watch more YouTube. I never have any single topic take over my entire homepage, literally ever. I even watched a balatro video like two weeks ago and I got two tiles on my homepage that showed balatro. But I also watch a lot of YouTube, so any one video doesn’t change much about my watch patterns. Last year my wife decided we were suddenly going to be watching videos about using turkey calls, and we watched about ten of them in a row and then I was getting a good number of recommendations for turkey shit, but still nothing like OP’s homepage.
I watch a lot of YouTube and my experience contradicts yours. Watch one dog video and suddenly it's nothing but dog videos.
Do you pay for YouTube in any manner?
Same here. My wife and I primarily watch YouTube (mainly let's play style stuff, but a lot of non-game stuff as well). Looking at my homepage right now, I've got a few gaming videos, some Dropout (amazing comedy), some 3D printing and DIY videos.
Over the years, the algorithm has gotten pretty good with its recommendations for us. Watching some niche videos barely affects our feeds.
Just turn watch history off and find your own way. My YT homepage is blank. Fuck suggestion algorithms.
Yep subscribing is the way to go.
The algorithm is dumb. It will even recommend the same video you watched before if you let it...
Does no one use the Subscription page anymore? Are people even aware of its existence at this point?
I used to utilize the subscription page. Then Google replaced YouTube accounts with Google accounts. I haven't logged in since.
Yes, I'm old.
Bump. This is what I do too. So much easier to just avoid it entirely.
YT assumes you're always binge-watching. Which people often are apparently.
Just use your subscription tab, like we did in the olden days.
pony on the front, lol
it's coming it's real
At least those are videos of a real videogame.
I find it incredibly insulting how my algorithm is always giving me ads and thinly veiled ads for predatory casinos wearing the mutilated echos of popcap games (pre EA). It equally insults my intelligence and the artistry that actually earns the prestige of successful, critically acclaimed games, and it is a disgusting, pathetic way to earn a living.
I'm am so strict about what I watch on my yt account. Anything that is just a one off for curiosity or that I think will destroy my front page gets opened in a private browser or 3rd party app.
Fwiw, you can delete videos from your viewing history to theoretically fix it.
Yeah i do this. I browse front page for any recommendation and if it's a shitty clickbait or something from a search or lemmy that i don't wanna get flooded with, i delete that video. Then it won't recommend you that sort of video.
You gotta control the algorithm and make it works for you.
This! You can curate the algorithm to work for you!
So...am I the only one who only uses the "Subscriptions" section? It has been years since I went the YouTube homepage.
I remember when I Ran by Flock of Seagulls was randomly playing in my head so I decided to listen to it. YouTube took that as me finding a new favourite band. I mostly listen to industrial metal.
I totally feel you but for a different reason. I played Balatro for a few days and literally the only thing Steam recommended to me for over a month was just card based rogue-like games.
Also I recommend the one by RTGame. Probably my favorite streamer. He's Irish so I never catch the streams but the YouTube videos are great.
Did you know they called him the Balatro King in the college?
Say his name and he appears! I believe in ~~Joe Hendry~~ Balatro!
I don't know who this Baletro guy is, but daaaaaaamn. He owns your youtube.
It's John Balatro, he play his card well.
not using dark mode in current year
You deserve this
I have been watching YouTube basically since they started. Despite having over 1000 subscriptions and an ungodly amount of watch hours if I watch a SINGLE video that's outside my usual wheelhouse my recommendation page will be tainted for like a week trying to get me to watch more of whateber thing I dared venture into.