Same. This is why i collect movies. So the streaming corps can never dictate my entertainment

the only movie in my physical collection is a busted up thrift store copy of heavy metal.

@vinum-sabbathi that sounds dope

oh my god same hat with the recommendations. like there's a gem here and there but like 90% of the recommendations are stuff i just do NOT care about?? at least it's encouraging to try out movies ... i've just been using a basic excel to track mine + some tracking sites as a secondary Place

I always see dumb drama videos about a random YouTuber nobody knows, or "commentary videos" saying stupid stuff like "NOBODY DOES X ANYMORE" even though plenty of people do that thing.

Like for example all the "Gen Alpha is DOOMED" videos, or "anti-overconsumption" videos which are most of the time literally just "This woman bought something I didn't like so it's overconsumption" and all they do is watch TikToks of women buying lots of stuff and go "Wow! That's a lot of stuff!" bruh they're not even doing any real commentary. Those videos are the real overconsumption tbh

if you ever want a good way to uh, *borrow* more efficiently, stremio is a really nice option. the viren070 guide on it is really easy to follow

I was talking about awful YT recommendations on Neocities like a year ago and most people told me "yea, just hide it and don't engage and it'll go to normal", which it didn't. It makes me so frustrated! I love calm videos about cooking and crafts and media analysis but my recommendations are all drama. I wish you good luck in finding shows and movies you'd like ! There's lots of great website options...

itll take a while for me to switch off of yt because i managed to curate a pretty good algorithm for myself but im already p- AMASSING a movie collection of my own. if you didnt watch hot fuzz yet then i recommend it, its pretty good

setting up rss for yt channels i usually watch was probably the closest i ever got to escaping 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐆𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐌 glad to know i’m not the only one who keeps having to go “i do not care about internet drama. i do not care about internet drama.” the moment they open youtube proper …or is developing a doomscroll problem with youtube shorts

no algorythm works anymore for me. its all the same 5 posts.

Only good recommendations are the ones I put on my front page

Every day it gets harder to mantain my "Cool YouTube Videos" page because most new videos suck so much ass, I mean I still have all the stuff I saved to "watch later" and older videos but it's way harder to find fun stuff that's worth my time nowadays

fuck youtube, its enshittified to hell, im on vidlii https://www.vidlii.com/user/deathstroyer not a lot of people on there but the site actually functions well

I use imdb to add movies to a watchlist and then do a csv export of that and do tmdb api calls to get all the information about those (they accept imdb ids, legends). and then i have my own program to keep track of which movies i watched, where i stored it on disk and where i can find friends to borrow digital copies from. idk how long before imdb is enshittified into uselessness like youtube tho

also yeah hot fuzz is pretty good

I've switched to using youtube's super-secret rss feature a while ago, idk how well it would work for everyone else but it serves my needs fine. Also I can confirm hot fuzz is good

youtube's WHAT

From what I've heard yt makes an rss feed for every channel. Then you can just cast the video to vlc/mpv or just download it. Pretty neat. I think I may make myself a setup based on this someday...

Also I can't recommend stremio(abd nuvio) combined with a debrid server enough. This shit is just amazing. For ehem... Watching backup copies of movies...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who also has the same 10 mid videos shoved in my face constantly. Also I will check out Hot Fuzz. You guys should check out Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie

as a frequent letterboxd user i do not recommend letterboxd LOL does what an excel file can basically. useful as a database but not more useful then imdb or whatever. NTBTSTM is a masterpiece, am a big nirvanna fan! recommend all of matt johnson's work especially the dirties.