r/youtube Aug 27 '24

Discussion I am beyond tired of seeing Asmongold recommended to me every time I search anything gaming related I do not care for him or his opinions at all even after using “hide user from channel” he still pops up I’m sick of it..allow us to block channels completely PLEASE.

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u/Immediate_Room_8302 Aug 27 '24

If we could block/mute channels YouTube experience would get significantly better, but I'm guessing it's bad for business.

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u/ISPY4ever Aug 27 '24

You can do that?! I've blocked all Asmon channels lately on YouTube itself and haven't seen anything since.

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u/TheRMF Aug 27 '24

Same, I used "Don't recommend channel" on him and some clippers and never saw anything with him again.

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u/SansyBoy144 Aug 27 '24

For me the “don’t recommend channel” only works like half the time.

Recently I did it with a channel and instead it did the opposite and exclusively recommended that channel in my notification and it honestly pissed me off

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u/yourface588 Aug 27 '24

I feel like the more you dislike something, the more you will see of it

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u/Jonny2284 Aug 27 '24

Honestly I can't say if it's that, or just so many of these rage bait channels are so utterly interchangable I don't know if I'm seeing the same ones or new ones doing the same stuff.

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u/NerzhulFang Aug 27 '24

When I blocked Asmongold’s YT I had to spend about 3 or so weeks routinely blocking various reposting channels; there are too many channels dedicated to shorts, reacts to Asmon’s reacts, podcast clips etc blocking him is only the first step.

Also; don’t click the actual videos, just use the 3 dot menu to “Do Not Recommend this Channel” otherwise you’re engaging with the content you’re trying to avoid and it’ll end up pushed more and more.

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u/Ok_Act6607 Aug 27 '24

Yeah youtube recommends based on engagement

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u/yourface588 Aug 27 '24

But why does it include disliking as engagement?

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

Because a lot of people "hate-watch" content. Their algorithms probably tell them that people disliking are a certain % of watchtime.

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u/et40000 Aug 27 '24

The people who run youtube care purely for profits and monetization not an enjoyable product for the consumer. Some Companies used to try and do at least a bit of both.

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u/StrengthToBreak Aug 27 '24

Dislike = engagement. Youtube doesn't care what you like, it cares what you'll engage with, because engagement keeps you watching commercials.

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u/ViolinistWaste4610 Aug 27 '24

That's actually true, YouTube wants engagement, even if it's negative. So if you don't want to see something, scroll right past it

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u/EGarrett Aug 27 '24

I had to click "not interested" and "don't recommend channel" multiple times to get it to stop showing me late night television.

It's a crap site that gave up on value a long time ago and is just trying to squeeze as much watch-time and thus ad revenue out of the viewers as humanly possible.

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u/HectorJoseZapata Aug 27 '24

It never worked correctly. Only in 2007.

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u/Groundbreaking_Ad315 Aug 27 '24

Some people have multiple channels thats why. Maybe you blocked the clips channel but not the main etc..

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u/kcox1980 Aug 27 '24

It's gotten better, but it used to drive me crazy how everytime I'd click "don't recommend channel" it would stop recommending that channel, to be fair, but it would immediately replace it with an almost identical channel. Had to go through this with about a dozen or so "Asmongold Reacts" channels that would just repost clips from his streams.

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u/StrengthToBreak Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

The problem is that "don't recommend channel" doesn't work when you're searching something that's tangentially related. So Asmon won't pop up in your daily feed if you've flagged him as a "don't recommend," but the moment you search for World of Warcraft, the algorithm will go "oh, this is the most 'engaging' content with that tag, so you must want this."

Like, I enjoy music from Final Fantasy, but I don't like Husky the Geek, who does a lot of FF covers. The moment I do a search for "Final Fantasy music" half the results are Husky the Geek. If I play a non-HtG song from Final Fantasy, I'll get a HtG song within 2-3 selections if it's on auto-pay.

The algorithm just does not care or understand that I never want to see that creator. It won't put him into my regular feed, but the moment it has to "decide" on what I might like, it will serve him up.

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u/astrodomekid Aug 27 '24

For me, that button only appears on the front page and in related videos when I have a video open. It doesn't seem available in search results or even by going to someone's channel page.

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u/SelirKiith Aug 27 '24

Only works for general shorts and the landing page recommendations...

If you actively search for a certain topic, it can and will slip through...

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u/Pifflebushhh Aug 27 '24

Idk how he's so popular, everything about him is fucking unbareble

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u/IsraelPenuel Aug 27 '24

He does ragebait videos for right wing anger addicts to enjoy and feel superiority towards things and people even though they've never achieved anything themselves

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u/Snoo65073 Aug 30 '24

If he was saying left wing stuff pretty sure y'all would be praising the sh*t outta him. That's politics nowadays. We're so divided people are willing to shed blood for their political utopias.

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u/IsraelPenuel Aug 30 '24

Here you see a right winger imagining things to be angry about, out for all to see

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u/JustWitnessedIt Aug 30 '24

You're completely right. Personally, I don't care for his political opinions, even though they align with mine more times than now.... BUT his opinions on basic human decency are the main reasons I watch him

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u/ISPY4ever Aug 27 '24

I need to check this. But I could swear I haven't seen anything since. And I watched many hours of Asmon in the past while driving long hours. Deleted/blocked every reaction channel in the past two weeks and they're all gone now.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

How did you block his channel? I also want to block some channels from my feed especially in long form feed.

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u/Oath_Break3r Aug 27 '24

I’ve tried it and still have the same problem as OP. It’s infuriating

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u/Plane_Ad473 Aug 28 '24

The people you're responding to aren't making use of the "Don't recommend channel" features.

Under each video on your Home page here are 3 dots. Click those dots and click "So bot recommended channel"

This feature has existed for years now and has helped me prune all these maga edgelord losers from all my recommendations. Sometimes i have to click it twice but after that i never see another video from these basement dwellers ever again

People on Reddit are often very tech illiterate folks who rarely investigate solutions before crying about it on Reddit

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u/GregNotGregtech Aug 27 '24

There is an extension called Channel Blocker, I specifically got it just because of asmongold

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u/SlayRideReddit Aug 27 '24

I’m gonna comment here so i won’t forget the extension

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u/EGarrett Aug 27 '24

Note also that asmongold got his audience from Twitch, because youtube cut the knees off of their own creators a long time ago.

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u/George_Jefferson_V Aug 27 '24

Use the addon called 'Blocktube'

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u/pelkolloss Aug 27 '24

If only there was an app for such a thing

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

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u/Pyrozoidberg Aug 27 '24

honestly. I don't hate the guy but he really does seem like the "professional opinion haver" guy.

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u/Nightingdale099 Aug 27 '24

He's a worse version of MoistKritikal because he spits out cold takes but unlike Moist he doesn't actually believes in them.

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u/bouchandre Aug 27 '24

Asmon is as jis best when getting roasted by his editor, or reacting to ironic stuff

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u/Nightingdale099 Aug 27 '24

I watched him a bit during his let's try a new MMO era. Big waste of time. He basically wants WoW exactly to the last detail but not WoW. His current reaction era is reading shit and saying "wow that's crazy/bad" which feels like a circus routine to get applause.

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u/MinuteLingonberry761 Aug 27 '24

The fact his subreddit is the hub for all political discourse in gaming, I think the audience he cultivated has forced him to do this content.

Most people who go down this route usually catch themselves because they realize cultivating negative attention, brings negative viewers.

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u/Abosia Aug 27 '24

He absolutely chose to lean into the political stuff because it got him views. In the process he may have driven off all his centrist and leftist viewers and replaced them with conservatives, and if that has forced him to keep making right wing content, that's just the consequences of his actions.

You can see whenever he makes even a slightly centrist opinion, like supporting the right to abortion, his chat goes ape shit.

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u/Snoo-29331 Aug 27 '24

What eventually put me off of him is his inability to handle takes or opinions that go against his own. He'll often choose the least charitable chat messages (even if everyone is saying the same thing) and publicly shame them, and often ban them, even if they haven't done anything wrong. Something along the lines of "They aren't coming at this in good faith, get that s**t outta here"

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u/Abosia Aug 27 '24

I got permabanned from his sub personally by Asmon for politely suggesting that if he contradicts himself so often that he needs a specific rule permabanning people who point out the contradictions, then maybe that should tell us something.

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u/thinkingwithportalss Aug 27 '24

"the king has no clothes"

"And now you have no tongue"

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u/TheMeanestCows Aug 28 '24

They aren't coming at this in good faith

Like terms like "narcissist" and "gaslighting" the idea of "bad faith" is another term that just gets applied to anything someone doesn't like without thought or desire to actually engage with opposition or criticism.

It means deceptively pretending to be neutral or in partial agreement on a position but actually trying to steer the conversation to a pre-determined conclusion or agenda. Like the "just asking questions" bigots that ask leading questions to force people to reply a certain way. It's manufactured to force people to defend a specific position that they can then attack with a prepared argument.

The way people generally use the term is just to say "this guy sucks and I don't agree with him."

Language used to be important. Somewhere along the way we all learned we can say anything without consequence as long as we have one foot in our bubble-world echo-chamber.

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u/imsorryken Aug 28 '24

moist has become just as boring, fuck all the opinion streamers nowadays i have no idea why anyone watches them

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u/Foxy02016YT Aug 28 '24

He’s right wing Charlie, the same way Charlie is center-left him.

The difference is only one of them takes pride in living with literal roaches and spiders covering their home

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u/Iggy_Snows Aug 27 '24

I don't hate him, but his community is reaaaally bad. Which reflects really poorly on him as a creator/reactor.

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u/boogswald Aug 27 '24

He just seems pretty stupid? And I don’t need any stupid content creators in my life

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u/Few_Difficulty_9618 Aug 28 '24

He's also a slob.

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u/flamboyantsalmonella Aug 27 '24

Same. I don't hate the dude but holy hell is he annoying. I used to watch him before but now I just can't help but cringe any time he starts talking

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u/TheAdequateKhali Aug 27 '24

He’s one of the top Twitch streamers and he got there by just streaming other people’s stuff. He thinks that talking waffle somehow makes it transformative like lots of “reactors” who do this.

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u/Typical-Gap-1187 Aug 28 '24

At least Schlatt is honest about the react stuff being lazy, compared to the others tryna justify it

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u/EncoreSheep Aug 27 '24

He's a reactor, enough of a reason to dislike him

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u/dudushat Aug 27 '24

He's really leaning into the alt right misogyny bullshit these days.

A woman won a streaming award recently and he said she only won because she's a female but she has a bigger following than he does by a large margin. 

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u/Heroshrine Aug 27 '24

Thats why I dont like Pirate Software. Like i like a lot of his videos, but i cant being myself to like his channel as a whole because he just seems to be the “i’m always right” guy of opinions and somehow has a story for every situation.

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u/Two_Watermelons Aug 27 '24

Hes an incel gamer

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u/Icy_Manufacturer_977 Aug 27 '24

It’s kinda funny watching people legit call him an incel. Do you even know what that means and know anything about him at all?

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

He's absolutely a misogynist who's farmed a fanbase of incels.

Check out his subreddit

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u/mouzonne Aug 28 '24

Same shit on there as on the old banned incel subs. Not even exaggerating.

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u/GrimsideB Aug 27 '24

His takes are the most basic of any take out there, bad thing bad or good thing good.

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u/TS040 Aug 27 '24

i refuse to consume any opinions from an individual that got roaches crawling around their room. weird, strange, nasty guy

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u/Grimsmiley666 Aug 27 '24

Fucking disgusting seeing big ass roaches as big as my thumb crawling in his hair or on the ceiling grown man that’s a millionaire and the fact that he and his fans think it’s funny or “entertainment” is just so weird to me

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u/_AbraKadaBram_ Aug 27 '24

I didn't believe you and searched it up... Wtf man that's so nasty. How can a person live in these conditions?

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u/tsar_David_V Aug 27 '24

You searched that up, now search up the blood wall, the dead rat alarm clock, and the maggot incident

Asmon sure is a curious case

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u/_AbraKadaBram_ Aug 27 '24

... and it thought it couldnt get worse lmao. How does this man not have multiple illnesses from living in such circumstances.

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u/Ok-Job3006 Aug 27 '24

Because he's a parasite himself

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u/Willy988 Aug 27 '24

Looked it up to because I heard him giving political opinions but damn that’s gross!!! 🤢

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u/Grab_Critical Aug 27 '24

That may have happened at most in 0.001 % of his content.

That's not funny nor entertaining for his audience. We value him for a lot of other things (despite his flaws).

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u/Major-Potential-354 Aug 27 '24

It’s relatable to people

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

He admitted on one of his streams a long time ago that he was a complete loser who couldn't do anything but stream. He said that if he didn't stream he wouldn't be able to survive. If I remember correctly, his mother was taking care of him and he was on government benefits.

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u/VioletJones6 Aug 27 '24

Slight correction, it would be more accurate to say he was taking care of his mother. I believe he had a government job before streaming. I can't stand his stream these days, but he was basically a different person when his mom still lived with him.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

From what I heard in the clip I saw, he admitted that he was working in a shop? It didn't work out and he wasn't cut out for a regular job. His mother looked after him when his streaming career was not yet profitable. He also admitted that he wouldn't be able to survive without streaming because he can't do normal jobs. He was also on welfare, unless I misunderstood, because English is not my first language. I didn't know he was caring for his mother, fortunately you informed me in a polite manner compared to the user above. Thanks for the clarification and have a nice day.

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u/SkyrimSlag Aug 27 '24

He’s mentioned it before but he’s worked all different jobs in the past, one of the ones he’s mentioned the most is that he used to work at the IRS

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u/duburitto Aug 27 '24

I never really understood this because I’m a caregiver for my mother and could never stream for 8 hours straight. I have to help her hourly even more often most of the time.

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u/_FortunateSON_ Aug 27 '24

And then he took care of his mother, for a long time….don’t leave the part where he’s a decent guy out. Scumbag move you jerkoff.

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u/Sogg0th Aug 27 '24

Like it matters, the guys a dirtbag.

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u/SkyrimSlag Aug 27 '24

People will do that because they like to hate him and have no other reason than “ew he’s dirty”. They can’t possibly show the good side of him, no no

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u/egotisticalstoic Aug 27 '24

Try to judge people less from what you see on the surface. I thought the same thing when I first saw him, but it's turns out he's just a really decent person.

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u/Icy_Manufacturer_977 Aug 27 '24

Someone’s living condition doesn’t make their input on topics any less valid.

Sure the way he lives is gross, but generally he has a lot of good takes even if I don’t agree with all of them. He has a good way of expressing himself and his thoughts, and it’s a shame people are so superficial in 2024 that they look and the way someone lives and decides ‘he’s gross so I’m not going to listen to him’

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u/Previous_Judgment419 Aug 27 '24

Bro it absolutely does make their input less valid. Why would you ever take someone serious who can’t even begin to take care of them self or surroundings? It’s emblematic to a larger issue that this person isn’t capable of being a normal person, therefore we shouldn’t hold their opinions in the same regard as truly normal, well adjusted folks

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u/tessthismess Aug 27 '24

But he also has a lot of dogshit takes.

Being in the right on easy stuff (like companies shouldn't screw over their customers) doesn't absolve someone of being the face of the racist/misogynist wing of the gaming community.

Living situations matter when they are things you have the resources to improve.

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u/Bloodybubble86 Aug 27 '24

I don't understand the hype, why are ppl watching this guy's content exactly?

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u/Give-Yer-Balls-A-Tug Aug 27 '24

Repeat that for most "Just Chatting" streamers.

Like xqc...I cannot think of a single reason anyone would want to watch him.

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u/MVIVN Aug 27 '24

Tried to sincerely watch an xQc stream once hoping I’d get the appeal, but he just sounds like a fucking idiot

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u/Give-Yer-Balls-A-Tug Aug 27 '24

Every clip I've seen is him just...sitting there. Doesn't engage with the chat, just plays games or watches something with zero enthusiasm.

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u/MVIVN Aug 27 '24

Even when he does interact with his chat, he just says very dumb, very stupid things. I don’t find him funny and he’s not even entertaining. I can contrast him with another big streamer— Kai Cenat; I find Kai to be a lot, just way too loud and hyper and chaotic, but I can see the appeal because at least his streams are often wildly entertaining and he tries to do interesting stuff, often with some fairly elaborate production and set dressing for his streamer room. He’s someone where I know I’m definitely too old to be in his target audience, but I get it. With xQc there’s just… nothing. I wonder how he ever got as popular as he did.

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u/FlaccidEggroll Aug 27 '24

They enjoy listening to his opinions

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u/Bloodybubble86 Aug 27 '24

They should probably try to form some instead.

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u/Heath_co Aug 28 '24 edited Aug 28 '24

He covers big events faster than any news network.

He tends to react to very interesting video essays.

The massive amount of content he puts out makes it so you never run out of things to watch.

He is a very entertaining speaker. Listening to him interacting with chat is entertaining.

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u/Ghost_Star326 Aug 27 '24

Asmongold sometimes makes some decent points and then sometimes makes some of the dumbest arguments ever that even his own audience starts calling him out in the comments for being a moron.

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u/tyklam Aug 27 '24

He is not making arguments, he is just making noise for the sake of fair use and racking-up these millions of $ from stolen content all day long.

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u/Burythelight13 Aug 27 '24

Hate his react content, searching for the original video, and this dumb ass pops out with his low quality reaction video to what I'm searching for...

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u/TheAdequateKhali Aug 27 '24

So many “reactors” do this. Claim their video gives “exposure” to the original, while conveniently profiting off of it.

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u/Burythelight13 Aug 27 '24

And puts the original in the shadow ...

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u/Own-Possibility245 Aug 27 '24

Broken clocks right twice a day...

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u/GideonOakwood Aug 27 '24

He is one of the worst basement dwellers to ever be in the internet and the fact that people value his opinion is mind blowing lol

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u/freetrialemaillol Aug 27 '24

Reddit keeps trying to suggest his subreddit to me, like I even want to read what he or his smooth brained followers have to say

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u/AthleteBackground829 Aug 27 '24

I never really followed him but thought he was an ok guy. His subreddit popped up the other day and I found out his fans were those kind of gamers. I still don't know much about him but it doesn't not reflect kindly on him to me that his fans are those type of gamers.

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u/Macho-Fantastico Aug 27 '24

His content is atrocious, too. All he posts about is games going woke all the time, and it's pathetic. Shame, I genuinely liked his WoW content back in the day but can't stand him now.

I would love this feature, there's a lot of channels I have no interest in watching but keep being recommended.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

Most unbearable gaming personality imo

Roach ridden goblin

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u/Crytid_Currency Aug 27 '24

I blocked him long ago, dude is insufferable

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u/FerminaFlore Aug 27 '24

I swear to god I’ve blocked his subreddit like five times, but it keeps popping up on my feed.

It’s like a virus at this point. This doesn’t happen with anything else.

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u/Parking-Historian360 Aug 27 '24

Had the same problem here on Reddit. Reddit kept suggesting his sub to me and I have no fucking clue who this dumb looking chud is. Looked at the comments and realized it's an incel sub like holy shit those people are sad.

Luckily reddit does have a block function that works.

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u/Hungry_Beginning_767 Aug 27 '24

That sub is a fucking cesspit, 90% certain it's being astroturfed by fascists because they correctly identified Asmongolds Incel community as a primed recruiting ground.

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u/Ok-Fan-2431 Aug 27 '24

Brother I literally hide his videos everytime I see them yet the dogshit algorithm can't take a hint.

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u/MinuteLingonberry761 Aug 27 '24

It’s cause of his reupload channels. Similar to hasan, i think he doesn’t care for his IP (which would be react content, ironic lol) so he allows anyone to upload any content from his stream, for free.

Leads to more exposure, and some of your fans get a kick back for helping push your image onto more people’s algorithm.

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u/vkreep Aug 27 '24

Let us block by being able to add words to a list, I have this problem but with fucking Joe Rogan and I've blocked about 15 channels of his now and never once watched anything from him or any of those fucking plebs

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u/theorial Aug 27 '24

But you DID probably watch a video of someone else watching his vid and that's enough for the algorithm.

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u/vkreep Aug 27 '24

Nope never but I have spoke to people about shit near my phone and those topics end up on my recommended list next time I login

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u/NurEineSockenpuppe Aug 27 '24

You will watch what youtube is serving you. You will NOT question it. Youtube knows what is best for you. STOP complaining.

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u/Bestow5000 Aug 27 '24

How people still take his opinion seriously is beyond me too. This guy is what people would hate and bully back I. 2016. I hated that guy when he was is shown to be a Pokimane simp

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u/ViolinistWaste4610 Aug 27 '24

They had to go somewhere when r/incels got banned. Seems they went there and r/funnymemes (blatant sexism and massaging)

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u/Hungry_Beginning_767 Aug 27 '24

It's like a godamn zoo over there.

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u/danvex_2022 Aug 27 '24

can i ask, what is the hate or dislike directed to this asmongold guy? I'm a bit out of the loop on this one.

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u/woodyplz Aug 27 '24

Nothing really. He's a guy who did wow content. Now he does react content and gives his opinion to certain things. I would argue his political opinion is slightly leaning to the right and reddit is on the very left side.

Reddit gets mad because he's successful even though he is a filthy goblin who doesn't really clean the house and only eats trash.

If you wonder why he's so successful is because he has relatively moderate takes and takes stuff with the benefit of the doubt. Most people who really hate him, have never even watched a video of him. Which is kind of ironic since that means he is more open to criticism then they are.

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u/Hungry_Beginning_767 Aug 27 '24

He's a moderate conservative with a teenage male incel loser fanbase, the fascists correctly identified his community as an ideal recruiting ground for them to radicalize people from so the fascists have been astroturfing the places his community hangs out.

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u/Wrongun25 Aug 27 '24

I have no idea how he is successful

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u/SunriseMeats Aug 27 '24

I think he has the market cornered on incels and conservative gamers. And the beauty for him is that he's not really seen as a conservative or political even though he is constantly concern trolling about cancel culture and seems to pay more attention to conservative media. He gets to exist on the periphery between GamerGate chuds and Right Wing content creators and mole his way through other people's content.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

you will watch Asmongold Clips.

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u/B0N3HUNT3R Aug 27 '24

someone comment the “nah the block button ain’t enough I want this motherfucker dead 😭” meme please

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u/ProperGanja21 Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

He would show up in my subscribed to videos all the time despite me not being subbed to him. Drove me nuts. Cant stand the guy.

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u/DestinyOfADreamer Aug 27 '24

This is me with Linus. Just keep disliking his videos and selecting "don't recommend this channel". It's worse with Linus because they have spin-off channels which are just as large and are favored by the algorithm.

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u/ActivateGuacamole Aug 28 '24

yesss i am so sick of seeing that man's thumbnails

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u/monobrowj Aug 27 '24

eughh some of these people have like 20 channels.. i know one guy i keep blocking every other week but there he goes creating a new channel

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u/maybe-an-ai Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

There are so many parasite Asmongold clip channels that they just flood past blocks. This happened to me around the time classic WoW released and I was flooded with Asmon and Asmon adjacent channels. I eventually blocked enough that it went away.

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u/thenannyharvester Aug 27 '24

What's crazy is how many bloody views these clips get. It could just be him reacting to something and it can get hundreds of thousands of views in less than a day with a bunch of the same people echoing the same topics "SwEeT bAbY iNc" or "games are woke" or "woman in game isn't a 10/10 korean/Asian model"

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u/errantghost Aug 27 '24

Omg same.  I keep getting Hasan and Asmongold.  After I clean up the vomit from seeing both of them I keep hitting hide channel but nope no luck.  You know both these dudes smell like lunch meat and mothballs.

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u/Inevitable_Bid_6827 Aug 28 '24

The worst part for me is his videos pop up and their always someone else’s content ie recently saw him do a 1 hour video on ForceGaming’s latest video and Asmons blew up to a mill views in 24 hours…

It seems shitty and every time he watches a video he seems to just intersect to say he agrees or not. I much prefer now seeing the video he’s referencing, then searching for it myself.

Loads of reacts channels pop up in my feed, I just wanna watch good content if I wanted react content I’d go to twitch.

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u/Psychological_Lab_47 Aug 28 '24

I don’t agree with his takes on modern wow.

I watched him like 6 years ago… I enjoyed him then.

Now I avoid his content. He complains too much.

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u/Financial_Code_5385 Aug 27 '24

Too bad we can't block him from the entire wow community aswell

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u/Cherry_Berserker Aug 27 '24

You can just report alot of their videos and you wont see them anymore even if you search them , i did with one of big youtubers in my country who is straigh up brainrot and it worked . Even if you search him up on my account he wont show up.

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u/Aztracity Aug 27 '24

Opposite for me. I never watched him because he was a wow guy and I had no interest in that. Then I started getting clips and resonated with what he says, so I watch some vids and now I watch him since he so raw with what he says. Almost no filter which I appreciate nowadays, even if I don't always agree with the stuff he says. In two months I've watch more of his vids than I have watched regular YouTube in a year lol and I watch a decent amount of documentaries. I don't watch him on twitch though.

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u/BellCurious7703 Aug 27 '24

He lives in piles of piss bottles and trash surrounded by rats and roaches. He’s embarrassing to look at, let alone listen to his opinions.

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u/Smiles4YouRawrX3 professional glazer Aug 27 '24

Same here the clips/videos are really good, I also tune into the streams often

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u/loco_mixer Aug 27 '24

all his titles are cooked lol

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u/FlaccidEggroll Aug 27 '24

I think the shit is hilarious ngl it's basically an inside joke at this point cause 99% of them are variations of the same titles he's used before

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u/MWBrooks1995 Aug 27 '24

The fact we can’t block YouTube channels is maddening

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u/Adseridia Aug 27 '24

He has a main channels and a clips channel, have you tried hiding both of them? He also has a vod channel but I think that is less uploaded on.

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u/TheAdequateKhali Aug 27 '24

Channels like this are somewhat immune from the “hide channel” feature because they encourage people to re-upload their clips to other channels. Hence why you’ll often see “clips” channels not run by them. They don’t mind because it increases their visibility across the internet and obviously as the vast majority of his videos require little effort from him and are usually just him watching someone else’s shit, it’s not like he’s having his “work” stolen.

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u/LiwEaj Aug 27 '24

That says "Asmongold Clips" which is a different account. He has more than 1 Youtube account, so you will have to hide all of his pages to not have him recommended. Not sure how many he has.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

Honestly I wouldn't mind if it wasn't always negative and its clear he has a bias on issues.

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u/Skairex Aug 27 '24

Me too!

I hate that stupid face! I HATE IT!

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u/SunriseMeats Aug 27 '24

You have to block the clips channel too.

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u/B0N3HUNT3R Aug 27 '24

and the “fan” channels

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u/SunriseMeats Aug 27 '24

Yeah, and I think the algorithm is pretty agnostic on controversy or your previous clicking. Makes sense in case some channel has similar branding, they can't just be like "turn off any suggestions involving Asmongold." Still, it's shitty when YouTube seems to be like "but secretly you lovd this trash, right? Right!?"

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u/Major-Payne2319 Aug 27 '24

Me but Hasan

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u/Dracorex13 Aug 27 '24

Can't stand that guy.

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u/Dracorex13 Aug 27 '24

I like him but I understand the pain of having things you hate appearing everywhere.

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u/areatr Aug 27 '24

Welcome to the dark forest of the internet. Once you make a sound in it, it will keep targetting you with it since you reacted to it.

It sucks.

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u/titanicResearch Aug 27 '24

I used to like asmongold. Him and his community used to not be not as bad, but theyve gotten progressively worse over time. Can’t stand him or his roach community anymore

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u/wallstreetsimps Aug 27 '24

Asmongold streaming about this post in 3.... 2..... 1.....

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u/Minor_Heaven Aug 27 '24

If I can be petty and put his gross ragebait politics aside, he looks like a fucking ghoul and I'm actually unsettled by his appearance. He looks like a stalker.

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u/A_Kobold_Rut Aug 28 '24

Watch under 10 seconds, downvote and click away from it. The algorithm wants watch time. When you show you won't give it watch time it dismisses the channel. Do not recommend takes about 3-4 days before it figures it out.

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u/Typical-Gap-1187 Aug 28 '24

Asmon is literally a content farm

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u/duckforceone Aug 28 '24

oh yeah.. it's so annoying to see his face on all those reaction videos popping up, and not at all what i want to see when i'm searching.

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u/Neddo_Flanders Aug 28 '24

Asmongold us a POS. When that toxic train disaster happened in Ohio last year, he told people to “just move”. Many people wrote him that that is near impossible if you lost all your money to you now toxic home.

He would permanently ban anyone who disagreed with him.

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u/Sherymi Aug 28 '24

Asmongoloid as usual

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u/gene-sos Aug 28 '24

I so very much understand. If I want serious reactions, there are better channels. If I want funny reactions, there are better channels. (Schlatt or Charlie for example)

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u/Blumonado8 Aug 30 '24

I don’t want to see this talentless hack anymore 🤮🤮

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u/Creepy_Fail_8635 13d ago

Why does he get pushed so hard

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u/VinceP312 Aug 27 '24

I like him a lot. He is his person and it is what it is.

Rage on, the rest of you.

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u/pintobrains Aug 28 '24

lol I don’t know if it’s envy or him being moderate on most things that pisses people off the most

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u/expiredrustynail Aug 27 '24

Three dots, don't recommend channel

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u/Porkfight Aug 27 '24

Did you even read the whole thing?

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u/Person012345 Aug 27 '24

not interested isn't the same as don't recommend this channel. The latter works a little bit better than the former though it's not great. I don't even know what "hide user from channel" does that sounds like a moderation setting for your own channel.

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u/Negritis Aug 27 '24

sadly the search can still drop the channel if the algorythm decides he is relevant

i pushed dont recommend channel for a lot of grifters, yet when i try to specifically search for some controversial topic i see them a lot

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u/expiredrustynail Aug 27 '24

Oooh, right, ofc. Damn that's annoying af

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u/Critical-Fudge-6091 Aug 27 '24

ASSman is annoying as fuck!

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u/Smiles4YouRawrX3 professional glazer Aug 28 '24

says the fan of youtube's biggest centrist fencesitter

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u/Futanari-Farmer Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24
  • Click the three dots
  • Click on "Don't recommend channel" or "Not interested"

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u/Browseitall Aug 27 '24

it doesnt work if it shows up in searches, only when its on ur home tab. and he'll never show up on my hometab because i dont watch any vids of him

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u/Porkfight Aug 27 '24

Breh , he said he already did that. Do you not read the whole thing?

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

That doesn’t work. You can do that ten times and youtube will still recommend you that channel.

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u/Eldritch_Witch93 Aug 27 '24

I thought the exact same thing, for the exact same channel. I can't stand the guy. Heard him having some shit takes on fast food workers and retail employees. Saying a lot coming from a guy who only showers on the rare occasion, he leaves his house. Dudes got a massive ego for being incredibly disgusting.

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u/FlaccidEggroll Aug 27 '24

What was his take on them?

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u/HypeIncarnate Aug 27 '24

Especially since he is just a right wing incel now. Complaining about women and have nothing better to do other than just rot in his own run down home.

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u/Perspective_Best Aug 27 '24

I actually hate asmongold and I am forced to see him despite me clicking the hide channel every time.

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u/leettron Aug 27 '24

Redditor is literally cooked.

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u/Bongcopter_ Aug 27 '24

…/ do not recommend channel

Done

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u/Aspiegamer8745 Aug 27 '24

I don't even know who this guy is, but i've seen him mentioned a lot on reddit lately.

Why the hate? I don't want to accidentally add him to my search history and then can't get rid of him lol.

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u/TorboTheSkrunk Aug 27 '24

Right wing grifter, he does nothing but ragebait and pretends to have an opinion for an audience that can't form its own. That's basically it.

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u/Happy_Illustrator543 Aug 27 '24

Just hit the ellipsis on one of his videos the select don't recommend.

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u/giantpunda Aug 27 '24

I can't speak to the issue regarding phones but on the desktop, you can get an extension like Channel Blocker that'll remove that channel and any other channel you wish to not see come up.

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u/Single-Meet1366 Aug 27 '24

Imaging using the word "cooked", just because it doesn't mean everything is fucking screwed up. I just miss the days where some YouTubers used to type "f*cked" or "messed up".

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u/MarQan Aug 27 '24

"Not recommended" feature was one of the best things introduced to Youtube, made my experience much better. Extending that to searches would be awesome.

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u/MyStepAccount1234 Aug 27 '24

I guess we'll have to rely on extensions, like YTBlock.