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    A lot of people say YouTube's formula only promotes already popular YouTubers, but... is that true? The only people YouTube suggest to me are mostly unknown, tend to upload longer videos, and upload infrequently, sometimes less than once every two months--it's almost like YouTube's recommendation system actually works.
    Maybe the people only being shown popular trash are being shown that because they only watch popular trash.
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      Editing … Jordan Peterson describes something called the Pareto principle, basically popularity is a snowball effect that results in even more popularity. Same with having a lot of money. Well, according to your post, it didn't happen this time. But it's just something I was reminded of.
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      Editing … Peterson's absolutely retarded so I'm not surprised
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      Editing … Well, youtube tends to show you content similar to the ones you watch, so it might be normal that it doesn't show you the top youtubers if you don't watch content similar to those they upload. Youtube's algorithm also favors longer videos tho, and despite you saying they are "unknown" I highly doubt that anything appears on your feed with less than a couple thousand subscribers or views.
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      Editing … A couple thousand is pretty damned unknown! It can't be a hard number to achieve, I've got a few hundred myself and I don't even have a single comment or video anywhere on YouTube, I go out of my way to keep it for viewing and playlisting only. And I mean, just today I had a person in my recommends who had no activity in over a year, and only three videos total.
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      Editing … you know what, I don't trust youtubers on the topic of youtube anymore. Animators and comedy channels say "nope, youtube requires longer videos" and political and gaming channels keep telling me "fuck, youtube requires shorter videos," and all of them tell me it's too much work to get the daily uploads youtube apparently requires. YouTube recommendations fucking work.
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