With YouTube, it's MrBeast style videos, influencer bait, and shorts. Podcasts are so heavily pushed by Spotify because they're trying to make themselves the centralized one stop shop for your audio consumption. They didn't pay Joe Rogan millions for no reason.Īs a man under thirty, I see the JRE logo on the front page of my Spotify at least five or six times a month. I have no interest in listening to podcasts on Spotify. I hit the option to not request it to me again, and yet there it is. They're not recommendations based on your taste. They're a mix of just enough of your taste so that you trust and buy-in, mixed with whatever flavor of the week the recommendation engine would love to sell you. Something I noticed after I watched an episode of Stoic Finance about a possible 'impending crash of the Chinese economy' is that YouTube started recommending about a dozen 'independent' channels.

I put the word independent in air quotes because they all have near-identical looking title cards with the similar fonts, some variant of the phrasing 'The collapse has begun!', and the same-ish content.

Different presenters, different channels, same message. Reminds me of the 'This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy' clip that edited together dozens of apparently independent local news channels saying the same script, verbatim.

You've got to wonder if there's someone with deep pockets trying to influence public opinion on China? Or is it just the same thing as the 'local' news channels, where a bunch of YouTubers have been 'bought' by a corporation that send them material to read? and some copy-cats clips I recommend opening in a private tab unless you want to be inundated with even more clones: I would love to know if anyone on Hacker News knows something about this kind of thing. My screenshot shows '15 results' at the top, which a reload of the page just now is still showing.īut when I go to load the site through my VPS in Germany. I see the '292 albums' you're talking about! And yep, umpteen copies of the same album art just like in your screenshot. I think this might be due to Australian consumer protection laws dictating that faulty products MUST be returnable.

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