THE algorithm behind YouTube keeps stubbornly suggesting a man might like to watch things he was only watching ironically to sneer at.
Millennial Ryan Whittaker spent yesterday evening watching videos by shite boybands like Busted and McFly only to discover YouTube actually believes he likes that kind of stuff, like an idiot.
He explained: “I genuinely couldn’t remember if McFly and Busted were the same band or not. So I thought I’d check, then I was pissing myself about how bad they were.
“What I Go To School For? That is pervy as f**k. And all that about shagging the great-grandaughter’s worse. But unfortunately, because algorithms don’t understand the nuances of watching 22 00s boyband videos as a joke it thinks that’s what I’m into.
“I go on there and it’s all Blue and Westlife, when normally I’m watching sophisticated stuff like How Much Of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Really Happened? or Resident Evil speedruns. It’s failed to see who I really am.
“I hated these bands when they were new. I don’t want to see their smug, talentless faces every time I log on. If see one Nickelback video in my suggestions I will never use the internet again.
“I don’t want to sound like my mum but I don’t understand this new technology and I refuse to learn. This is worse than when I spent a drunken evening checking out Tommy Robinson videos for a laugh. Took eight months to cleanse my recommendations.”
