User is concerned about the quality of video recommendations, stating that their homepage is filled with irrelevant content and wants improvements to the recommendation system.
The past couple weeks my YouTube homepage has been recommending me some deep cut YouDube videos and by the looks of the comments, it's been happening to a large group of other people too. Before the change, my YouTube homepage was a mix of videos from channels I watch a lot but I'm not subbed, channels with similar vibes to channels I'm subbed to, and a few long shot recommendations. After the change, while these three categories still do exist, they are much overshadowed by the amount of 8 to 16-year-old videos with under 5 million views, bizarre shitpost videos, sub thousand view week old videos, and indie music. Now this is looked stuff that I've loved for it a long time but only now am I getting recommended on the regular. Anybody else experienced this change? (Iexclusively use YouTube mobile app BTW)