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Percentage of women with high depressive symptoms

17% 1991
21% 2013
29% 2017

70% of youtube content watched comes from Youtube’s recommendation system.

Girl searching for dieting video would be recommended anorexia videos
911 news viewers would be recommended conspiracy theorists
Nasa moon landing viewers would be recommended flat earth

Percentage of results promoting flat earth theory

Google Search - 20%
Youtube Search - 35%
Youtube Recommendations - 90%

Alex Jones recommended 15 billion times (yes, billion)

Most recommended keywords - April 2019

Get schooled
Shreds
Debunks
Dismantles
Debates
Rips
Confronts
Destroys
Hates
Demolishes
Obliterates

YouTube say they're now putting a stop to this nonsense but it would seem to be the height of irresponsibility for a parent to let a kid use such a poisonous platform.

Details from "Centre For Humane Technology" presentation by Tristan Harris
https://vimeo.com/332340920

Got any more context free & irrelevant data to present?

That's it. Female depression is caused by YouTube. Knew it. It was never going to be 'like-based' social media such as Instagram or Facebook.

I could go some way as to explain why people in general seem ever more angry, and ever more confrontational.

I notice it on the videos title "XXXXXX Demolishes LibTard" etc.... There's a gobsmacking amount of this content.

That said, parents should parent. That said further, much of the audience are adults.

“YouTube is bad”

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DOB wrote:“YouTube is bad”

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Lemoentjie wrote:That's it. Female depression is caused by YouTube. Knew it. It was never going to be 'like-based' social media such as Instagram or Facebook.

Exactly! What's influencing them to go searching in the first place...?

Leffe wrote:I notice it on the videos title "XXXXXX Demolishes LibTard" etc.... There's a gobsmacking amount of this content.

There is a gobsmacking amount of LibTards in need of demolishing.

DragonKhan wrote:

DOB wrote:“YouTube is bad”

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