Many creators act as though Youtube’s algorithm disfavors content that refers to graphic acts of sex and violence, i.e., bleeping words like ‘kill’ or ‘suicide’ or referring to these in very circuitous ways. I would guess these are incomplete methods of avoidance and that YT tries to keep up by detecting these workarounds. Seems like a potential issue for the MechaHitler video.
Yeah, we have mixed evidence on this—we didn’t get on the hype leaderboard despite having enough votes, which suggests disfavoring, but we also just did get a lot of views and no weird ratios of e.g. views/comments so I don’t personally think there was a lot going on there.
Many creators act as though Youtube’s algorithm disfavors content that refers to graphic acts of sex and violence, i.e., bleeping words like ‘kill’ or ‘suicide’ or referring to these in very circuitous ways. I would guess these are incomplete methods of avoidance and that YT tries to keep up by detecting these workarounds. Seems like a potential issue for the MechaHitler video.
Yeah, we have mixed evidence on this—we didn’t get on the hype leaderboard despite having enough votes, which suggests disfavoring, but we also just did get a lot of views and no weird ratios of e.g. views/comments so I don’t personally think there was a lot going on there.