Pretty much stopped using it once they decided my 20 year old account must belong to a child and demanded my ID. (Still don’t know why that happened. The account itself is over eighteen and I don’t live in the US where that policy was supposed to take effect.) This doesn’t make it any more appealing.

I remember when you just had, like, banner ads and an ad next to the video. And now you get those gross ads for AI sexbots and stuff.

And I really don’t think the latter is just because of my own search history. I’m asexual and don’t look at porn sites. I also noticed an uptick in the sex ads after YouTube decided I was a minor, so that’s pretty freaking weird.

Then I also get far right ads about how trans people are terrible, that are basically hate speech and propaganda.

I wish other platforms for long form video content existed.