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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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My roomie keeps getting videos and adverts about visiting Dubai/UAE/Qatar etc.
We're both LGBTQ+ so that wouldn't end well.
Oh no 😳
My guess is that it’s because the area we live in has a decently sized immigrant population, usually Middle East/North African.
Those countries are probably a lot more appealing to them than they are to us, but the algorithm lumps us all in in the same demographic.
Yikes... I hope you find your way out of that hole, maybe starting over may help? I know seperate channels on the same account have different recommended pages, so that might work.
Ouch. On desktop I use YouTube in a logged out container tab - after watching a LTT and TLE video my feed usually falls in line.
There is occasionally some disturbing stuff on the homepage which is a little offputting. Funny thing is, in NewPipe on my phone I see no such content!
This is disconcerting to say the least 😑
It just shows up because it's popular and they don't reasonably know what you like.
Sometimes these kind of channels show up in my recommended videos. When they show up I click on "do not recommend this channel".
That's a nightmare. You could try starting clean and going to your Google account settings and completely wiping your view history. You might be able to do it from the YouTube site, but I'm not sure. Hopefully that'll help a little? Edit: just saw you weren't even logged in! In that case....no idea. Best of luck 🤞✊