[noxa]

Yeah! Seeing blackhead popping thumbnails for this stuff in my crafting/hacking/cooking feed of videos is absolutely terrifying, especially as someone with mild trypophobia. I cannot believe that these are surfaced for me given the amount of data they have or that they are surfaced for anyone without explicit searches given the content - even if considered medical/educational in nature I wouldn't expect surgery or animal dissection videos to be surfaced likewise.

[natebc]

You guys using a VPN or something? Only surprises I get is more ... mature content Shorts in search results. Generally my recommended feed and "New For You" is free of anything terrible.

[lupusreal]

I don't buy that explaination. Several of us are getting the same sort of intrusive shock content; are we all using the same VPN endpoint? Doubtlessly not. Furthermore, I've seen no other kinds of videos that would suggest recommendations bleeding through from other viewers; particularly youtube never suggests any sports content to me. Sports are extremely popular so if recommendations bleed through IPs, I should be getting lots of sports content. I get none, youtube's suggestions are almost perfectly tailored to me with the sole exception of these occasional shock videos.

[spacebacon]

That’s what I was thinking … if you are sharing a VPN with the average VPN user then you are likely to be served this bottom tier content based off of the IP alone.

[dvno42]

Adding another data point here. Same videos you described, no watch history, no VPN, pimple gore videos and the like mixed into unrelated results. Very odd.