I keep getting shock content in my feed ever since getting on the kick of watching animal videos (cute stuff like grooming or animal being funny with humans). This one I reported had a thumbnail of a literal beheading moments before it happened. Naturally I didn't watch the video but I reported it.
Why in the fuck is someone who watches YT for retro gaming and animals getting gore content?
Totally enshitified.
YouTube really is one of the most enshittified web services out there. Recommendations are terrible and possibly actively trying to push fascist propaganda, search is broken (probably intentionally), copyright claims are constantly getting content removed arbitrarily, monetization forces people to edit out bad words while conspiracy nuts are allowed to go ham, the list goes on. The only thing that would make it worse is if they started charging users for storage, which I have to believe is already in the works.
Not that YouTube was ever particularly good, but it’s so much worse than it could or should be given that it’s the primary video hosting site for a large part of the world.