I remember finding YouTube videos to watch on the something awful forums in like 2007. Was the only real way I knew of at the time but the variety puts my current recommendation feed to shame.
I miss the sheer random absurdity of what I'd find there. Don't remember too much of what I found any more, other than "man from lox" which I still find someone new to show it to every few years or so lol
I will say the recommendations now being so personalized gives me a lot of big topical chunks of content relevant to my interests that I'd probably not have found on a random SA thread. But so much of it is just "a competing channel of what you're already watching" and "what we are recommending to half the world right now and we can tell you won't object to". Not the random out of thin air things like "ghost ride the whip" (another that just instantly came to my mind lol)
I miss the sheer random absurdity of what I'd find there. Don't remember too much of what I found any more, other than "man from lox" which I still find someone new to show it to every few years or so lol
I will say the recommendations now being so personalized gives me a lot of big topical chunks of content relevant to my interests that I'd probably not have found on a random SA thread. But so much of it is just "a competing channel of what you're already watching" and "what we are recommending to half the world right now and we can tell you won't object to". Not the random out of thin air things like "ghost ride the whip" (another that just instantly came to my mind lol)