Think twice before clicking on any recommended YouTube videos. You’ll thank yourself later.

Users engage more on such borderline contents, meaning more views. The number of views is also a determinant for YouTube’s AI to recommend the category to its other viewers. But more views also mean that content creators get the impression that they should create such type of content to get popular. Basically, the more grotesque content you make, the more likely it’ll keep people on YouTube—for creators and YouTube, it is a revenue opportunity. Hence, the cycle or loop goes on.

Source: https://kathmandupost.com/science-technology/2019/08/13/the-truth-about-youtube-s-recommendations