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A local woman has publicly expressed her longing for the good old days of YouTube’s bygone algorithm while lamenting her inability to find something to watch on Netflix despite a mind-boggling array of choices.
Samantha Harper (29) is reportedly devastated by the loss of an era where her video recommendations were random enough for her to fall down a rabbit hole of something she would normally have zero interest in.
“Remember when YouTube was like the wild west? but in the best way possible?” Samantha reminisced, scrolling through the same unappealing Netflix categories for the third time in an hour.
“One moment, you’d be watching a cute cat video, and the next, you’re deep into a 3 a.m. rabbit hole on the collapse of Tower 7”
Samantha, who despite being a paying Netflix subscriber for years has only watched things she’s already seen before on the service, mourns the loss of a simpler time.
“Everything recommended to me now is based on some overly complex algorithm that thinks I want to watch shows similar to the last show I just watched.”
Samantha isn’t alone, many millennials feel like the greatest algorithm of them all, the YouTube recommended feed from 2006-2012 is well and truly gone.
As Samantha continues her endless scrolling, she dreams of a future where streaming services rekindle that spark of the random, obscure and controversial.
