Why id YouTube suddenly recommending so many random livestreams?

[Zontar]

Over the past 2 days I've noticed that in my YouTube recommendations there have been a lot of odd livestreams recommended. Here's a list of what I bothered to keep track of:

- 3 livestreams of kittens
- 2 livestreams of puppies
- 1 livestream of an aquarium
- 3 livestreams of an animated series having frames drawn
- 6 livestreams of random intersections
- 4 livestreams of space
- 3 livestreams of cartoon series marathons

There are more, but those are just the ones I bothered to remember. What the hell is happening with YouTube right now for this to suddenly be happening?

 

[RaikuFA]

I've noticed it too. Only live
stream I ever saw was Game Theory and Pikapetey now it's everywhere

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I got a whole lotta of recommendations for random street corner cams and store cams from some place called Jackson Hole, supposedly in Missouri.

 

[Saelune]

Advertising a feature they have more confidence in I am guessing? Or a snowball effect of people live streaming stuff. Alot of animal stuff. I liked one of an eagle's nest that was pretty neat. Saw the mother feeding the babies a dead thing.

 

[Queen Michael]

My sympathies, mate. I'm not getting any so far; here's to hoping that keeps up.

 

[Level 7 Dragon]

Same

Political speeches make sense, but why space, nature and animals?

 

[Scarim Coral]

I notice a couple to especially from two of my subcribed Youtubers. Either way, I never cared for lived streaming as it suck my bandwidth.

 

[Zontar]

I notice a couple to especially from two of my subcribed Youtubers.

You know, that I could understand, or hell content from people who make similar content to those you're subbed to I can understand, but the random stuff I've been getting live streams to in my recommendation box just does not add up in my mind.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

Google taking the same approach in their competition against Twitch, like they did with Google+ and FB?
Shoving their feature in our throats and hoping we'll like it.

 

[Hazy992]

I've been wondering it too, shit's weird. Best one was named something along the lines of 'yeah I don't know why you've been recommended this either'.

 

[pookie101]

im very wary of clicking on random but interesting videos on youtube these days due to the 50000 channel recommendations you get

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I watched 20mins of a random small town America cross-street yesterday before I realized it wasn't a prank show, and a legion of mascots weren't about to run down the street.

 

[Cap'nPipsqueak]

Over the past 2 days I've noticed that in my YouTube recommendations there have been a lot of odd livestreams recommended. Here's a list of what I bothered to keep track of:

- 3 livestreams of kittens
- 2 livestreams of puppies
- 1 livestream of an aquarium
- 3 livestreams of an animated series having frames drawn
- 6 livestreams of random intersections
- 4 livestreams of space
- 3 livestreams of cartoon series marathons

There are more, but those are just the ones I bothered to remember. What the hell is happening with YouTube right now for this to suddenly be happening?

Because Youtube is stupid? Try their auto-generated close captions some day.

That thing could make a multiple-murder news report comedy gold.

 

[LostCrusader]

It is pretty annoying and random. No Youtube, I don't want to watch a livestream of burning man, kittens, or a LoL tournament. The really annoying part is that you can mark a stream as uninteresting (GTFO my recommendations) and it will pop back the next day.

 

[Drathnoxis]

I've been getting a lot of recommendations for yoga videos with weird clickbait thumbnails of naked women, which is strange because I've pretty much been exclusively watching let's plays by supergreatfriend.

 

[FalloutJack]

Funny, I only got this because I was made aware of Kitten Academy. Youtube automatically recommends you similar things to what you've been broasing, whether you wanted it or not.