#blocktube

Tell me if you've had this problem before. You click on some video, any video, looking at something positive. And all of a sudden, you're spammed with dozens of negative videos in your recommendations. And no matter how many “Not interested” or “Don't recommend channel” that you click, YouTube still forces them on you. Or maybe you're looking for something in YouTube search, but you get too much clickbait videos, or hate-watch videos? And you have to scroll through everything?

Or maybe people have used different tags to force them into your search options, giving you tons of options that aren't related to what you are searching for. Wouldn't it be nice if you could block these channels and videos the same way you block people on social media?

Unfortunately, YouTube's existence relies on Ad revenue exclusively, hence why their channel blockers won't work, and reporting channels or videos won't accomplish anything if those channels and videos don't harm YouTube's reputation or ad revenue.

The larger a channel gets, the less chance of YouTube taking action against them. Hence why very large hate-channels and videos will swarm into searches.

Fortunately, there are tools called Browser Extensions or Add-Ons that allow you to have your browsers be able to add that specific block button option.

But...wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to look for those tools? Why do we need such an option? Why can't YouTube give us that option in the first place?

In any case, the resources DO exist. You just have to look for them on Google Search. Blocktube is one such tool, and you can look it up on Google Search to confirm what I have shown here.

I know that for Phones you’ll need something called Youtube Vanced, also researchable on Google.

Credit goes to https://www.tumblr.com/rwby-cinder-blog/620199907993714688 

I’m just sick and tired of YouTube not doing a thing about a glaring problem on its increasingly problematic platform.

You can block channels entirely, from appearing anywhere. In your feed, on comment sections, anywhere.

Sorry for the novel, but RWBY's "critics" frustrate me with their ignorance and lack of empathy, so I had to vent.

@monkey-60-t , I love you man, but you can't keep doing this to yourself.

PLEASE, use blocktube and block that TERF out of your life.

If you're still upset with the negativity, why not build a youtube channel and start making positivity posts instead?

I have a feeling a lot of people will still embrace positivity and respectful information over that TERF's misinformation and confirmation bias platform.

you can't fire with fire when it comes to anger nd hate.

His flair on R/RWBY is "Grand Corruptor of R/RWBY" on Reddit

He basically spams one topic after another in R/RWBY insulting the show, the female characters, the writers, and the fandom.

He also is the sole moderator of R/RWBYCritics.

Basically his subreddit is for people who wish for the show to die, and for people to promote negativity against the show.

You defend RWBY or talk positive about it? Their subreddit immediately gets furious and dextixer takes advantage to spam hate on the subreddit.

This would be fine if the moderators of R/RWBY kept dextixer in check, but whenever somebody tries to promote a post defending RWBY and the the writers? Dextixer has the mods of R/RWBY shut down the posts and ban the people promoting positivity. Defenders of RWBY are now called "Toxic positivity" and anyone who so much as defends the show is accused as being unable to take criticism.

It has led to a lot of people leaving R/RWBY due to the increased negativity and hate.

Dextixer and R/RWBYCritics basically have promoted a "nobody hates RWBY like RWBY Fans" image but it is actually the silencing of anyone defending RWBY in order to promote a one-sided negative view.

You'll notice if you type "RWBY" into youtube, that there's nothing but hate?

Videos like these by @dangerouslydangerousgalaxy are rather hard to come by, due to RWBY being a punching bag.

My advice is to keep up positivity and also make generous use of the block button.

You do not need negativity in your life. If somebody tells you not to enjoy a show, you don't need to deal with them.

The reason Youtube is bad: positive feedback loops. not positive as in good, but positive as in they grow larger over time. Youtube's recommendation algorithm is partially based off of what it learns from users.

It takes in all kinds of data on what users watch--the uploader, the title, the tags, the thumbnail, the description, anything it can glean from the audio and visuals, whatever. you name it, google's probably holding it. They dont have yottabytes upon yottabytes of data for nothing. Importantly, though, is that they also keep track of what the user watches Next. 

See, google (as with most social media that uses an ad revenue model) will run studies, where they try out different experimental algorithms created from viewership data on different users and see what is more likely to get users to click through. How they create these experiments is pretty complicated, and i'll save you the technogore. Think of it as making tons of algorithms that each think different combinations of aforementioned viewership data at different amounts are the reason why that viewer made their choice, then projecting that onto all users to inform future suggestions. 

Do you know some of the worst RWDE youtubers so I can tell her to avoid them?

Judgmental Critter, Twiins Iink , Vexed Viewer, Adel Aka, Hero Hei, The Floof Artist...Oh! And Eruption Fang.

Basically, anyone who is using disrespectful language towards a show in the video title.

Just for the record? This doesn't just apply to the RWBY Fandom.

If somebody's video says "this is stupid" or "what made me hate this episode" or "hate" "dumb" "main characters are villain?" Or a clickbait title/thumbnail?

That's a HTDM, and not just for RWBY. Many others shows and video games suffer this.

Here's what you and your friend can do.

Youtube refused to make an effective block-button, but the IT Community decided they'd do it themselves.

This here works for the browsers...its a browser add-on/extension that will block youtube channels in a similar manner to how you block a page on social media. Think of it as filtering your newsfeed.

If your friends using her phone, I would recommend Youtube Vanced. Supposedly there's a newer version called Revanced.

I haven't tried it yet, but apparently there's also a browser extension/add-on called Channel Blocker.

I prefer Blocktube because its user-friendly.