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Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow
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this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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I have a “Shorts blocker” installed and only watch channels I’m subscribed to or recognise. Every time I click on a new creator it turns out to be AI Slop.
I imagine it’s harder than ever to break through as a genuine new creator on YouTube now.
If thats how you use youtube already, I highly recommend installing Freetube. It doesn't even have a "recommend" page, it only shows the channels you subscribe, it has built in sponsorblock, no ads, no data sent to google, the "trending" and "most popular" feeds rarely work (thats a good thing!), you can disable pretty much everything you want, shorts, community tab and so on. And its light, I have a ancient laptop that takes 3 hours to load all the bullshit that is on the youtube website, with Freetube its some seconds and off it goes.
Yeah, I think thats how it is everywhere in corporate media platforms now, sadly. Ai all over, algorithms not really favoring discovery
That gives me a good idea for a post sometime down the line. "What are your favorite YT channels under 500k followers" or something like that. I don't mind if someone else wants to steal the idea but hey let me know where you post it...