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Youtube is in a fairly sad state from it's former self. Search has become, quite frankly, unusable. I recall searching for a <band> recently at the gym, and instead of just showing me <band>. Results showed 3-4 results then completely unrelated topics to <band>.

Results are entirely off-topic, but related to other interests I have; tech, planes, trains, and automobiles, etc.

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Just FYI, in case you didn't notice, you can bypass the stupid thing that makes search useless by using a filter, like filtering by "Type: Video" or something. I'm sure that workaround will stop working some day randomly.

Oh that's interesting! Thanks for that I'll try it. Much in the same way Google has "Site:X" "filetype:X".

The "For You" section of my youtube search is awful, like terribly awful. It's decided for some reason I enjoy popping and weird skin infection videos. I think this is because I clicked through to an external link to a horse getting a hoof infection shaved once (did not enjoy and did not watch all of it). That's literally the only time I've watched anything like that and since then it's always at the bottom of my search. These videos are never recommended on my front page, though.

There are some weird corners of YouTube.

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