Ask HN: Is the YouTube shorts algorithm broken?

4 comments

Completely broken for like 2 weeks now. Such weird stuff showing up. Repetitive videos, weird Indian stuff. Young girls asking if they are fat. It’s creepy.

faebi4년 전

Perfect description of my shorts recommendations. Pretty strange, and feels like I'm not alone.

kosasbest4년 전

How do you mean broken? You mean as in the recommendation algo is inferior to Reels or TikTok?

gainsboro4년 전

It keeps recommending repetitive content even though I've been disliking all those videos. By those videos I mean trans, overweight, animal cruelty, and Indian related. At least this is my experience and I've seen shorts comments telling the same thing.