get the extension "BlockTube" and block any channel that does this. after a while your feed will get noticably better.
People are saying not to click but IMO it doesn't work that well. I make a point of never clicking on any video title like that, and still kept getting flooded
My favorite pattern is saying "THIS" and withholding what exactly the video is about - once I saw it used twice in a title and it just cracked me up. It was something like "Do THIS instead of THIS". I wish anyone a couple years from now trying to find a video made in the current times good luck.
FYI there is an option for this built into the Youtube suggestions. Hover over a suggestion > three dot menu > Don't recommend channel. I use this option, as well as the "Don't recommend video" option in combination for a year, and my suggestions are almost always relevant and high quality every time I log in. The few low quality videos that slip into the suggestions, I immediately prune them and block the channel too.
One of the characteristics of mass-market advertising / propaganda, is that it's Big Lie / Big Message dependent. That means that at any one time a relatively small list of channels is responsible for the majority of chum. Thank power laws / Zipf functions.
Of course, there's enough channel-churn that these do turn over relatively quickly, but that tends to be on the scale of weeks to months, not hours to days.
Once you've knocked off the major chum sites, legitimate channels start rising through the noise floor. The small-scale chum sites tend not to turn up in high rotation.
Channel-block should be an inherent function. Web search also desperately needs this at the domain level.
(I just ran into this looking up a hiking trail. First-listed site, which dominated my search results, splashes up a registration wall on following any links. Peakbagger, buried in the search results, does far better. I also had to block Pinterest, of course....)
I have very narrow interests for video topics and it works for me at least. Of course it's not perfect since new channels will pop up, or youtube will suggest new topics (e.g. lately the johnny depp trial), but even then, you can block 90% of it quite easily which is already a big improvement.
TheSoul Publishing (russian disinformation platform masquerading as 5 minute craft life hacks) employs over 2100 people and has over 100 channels. and thats just one of the garbage manufacturers on YT.
You don't have to block every bad channel that exists, only the ones that get recommended to you. And youtube tends to be quite stubborn with channels it recommends, so even just blocking a few can go a long way. But of course over time you also amass a bigger list, which covers a wider range of channels.
People are saying not to click but IMO it doesn't work that well. I make a point of never clicking on any video title like that, and still kept getting flooded
My favorite pattern is saying "THIS" and withholding what exactly the video is about - once I saw it used twice in a title and it just cracked me up. It was something like "Do THIS instead of THIS". I wish anyone a couple years from now trying to find a video made in the current times good luck.