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    Default YouTube recommends...

    It used to be that YouTube would just recommend stuff without telling you why, but now it links each recommended video with something you watched. And if I was watching Nick Cave videos last night and it suggests an interview with him, that makes sense. But some of them are just nuts, like this one:

    Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A. Because you watched Keanu Reeves is immortal

    Wait, what? How does that even follow?

    If you've got an account on YouTube, sign in, surf a bit, and then go to the homepage and see what it tells you. Sometimes you'll find some interesting new stuff, but other times it's just bizarre.

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    Undertaker-21st theme because you watched Bianca's Gay 2

    I want a slide show or a wrestler set to Limp Bizkit because I watched a soap opera scene where a teenager came out as a lesbian? What?

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    Lesbians, wrestling. Soap operas, Limp Bizkit.

    What are you complaining about, exactly?

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    It's like the Amazon recommendations, some of them are just bizarre too.

    Oddly enough this afternoon I started watching



    and following the recommendations it wound it's way through so many unexpected items and after several hours threw up

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    I'm tempted to post the playlist - it is around nine hours long now

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    Quote Originally posted by Zuul View post
    Lesbians, wrestling. Soap operas, Limp Bizkit.

    What are you complaining about, exactly?
    Well, if I got to wrestle with Bianca, I would not complain in the least. I'm just not sure where Fred Durst comes in.

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    O Holy Night- Incredible Child Singer 7 Years Old because you watched Star Wars: Ana Gasteyer as Barbara Streisand

    Because, a little girl singing a Christmas carol has everything to do with a comedy sketch based on a classic sci-fi movie.

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    I just got...

    CMA 2008 John Michael Montgomery Interview because you watched Best Animaniac Quotes Yakko Wakko Dot

    and...

    How to Lose Weight Fast- Like 20 Pounds in 3 Weeks because you watched Clothing for Werewolves

    In summary, people who like cartoons should care about the lives of Country singers, and people interested in werewolf comedy should think about losing some weight.

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    ...people interested in werewolf comedy should think about losing some weight.
    Well, obviously!

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    I don't get any interesting recommendations. *sigh*

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    Because I watched Matchstick Cats And Dogs - not even the correct title, mind! - they recommended !

    Makes perfect sense, eh?
    To sleep, perchance to experience amygdalocortical activation and prefrontal deactivation.

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    Today, YouTube has decided I need some Kanye West in my life. This was not one video, not two videos, but three different videos, featuring Mister West and his music. Now, had this been because of a Lady Gaga video I'd watched, or based on my search for his VMA outburst, I could understand it. However, YouTube's decision to insist that I need some Kanye is based on my viewing of a video in which Michelle Branch discusses her songwriting.

    Is YouTube trying to stage an intervention?

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    Uh-oh, YouTube thinks I want to watch racist commercials! It's recommending I watch this:



    because I watched:



    I don't remember watching the latter commercial, though it does seem like something that may have been posted in chat. Clearly, Mellophant is corrupting my YouTube recs.
    Taumpy: Oh noes, you aren't a super powerful wave of destruction.
    Panther Squad: It's true! My scythe does not shorn the biomonsters in great swaths like it ought!

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    Santa's Village --abandoned


    "I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."

    -Jim Rockford

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