I've been noticing this myself for a while and have also seen people bring it up incidentally on Reddit, etc. Like today I got recomended a day old video with 31 views Titled
Personally, I think this is a great change, but I'm not sure what Youtube's end goal is. I've read people say they're trying to copy TikTok but the thing is a Tiktok is a ~30 second time commitment, whereas for a Youtube video it's more like 10 minutes, which I don't think anyone's going to spend given how irrelevant some of these videos are. I'm definitely an outlier here as the only reason I think it's a good change is because I love hunting down obscure crazy people, and this will make that slightly easier.
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I've noticed this too, going back a year. It's always a single video though. It's like they have included a wildcard spot among all the super popular recommendations.
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Sometimes it's a good video too, I support it
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actually seems like a good idea, if you searched something generic it would end up being the same old videos always feeding back into the algorithm even if a newer video is better
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