How to de-radicalize my mom's youtube algorithm?

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 1425 points –

She's almost 70, spend all day watching q-anon style of videos (but in Spanish) and every day she's anguished about something new, last week was asking us to start digging a nuclear shelter because Russia was dropped a nuclear bomb over Ukraine. Before that she was begging us to install reinforced doors because the indigenous population were about to invade the cities and kill everyone with poisonous arrows. I have access to her YouTube account and I'm trying to unsubscribe and report the videos, but the reccomended videos keep feeding her more crazy shit.

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This never worked for me. BUT WHAT FIXED IT WAS LISTENING TO SCREAMO METAL. APPARENTLY THE. YOURUBE KNEW I WAS A LEFTIST then. Weird but I've been free ever since

This comment made me laugh so hard and I don't know why... I love it!

in my head, I read it like someone was talking, and then had to start shouting over the sound of a train passing by, then return to normal volume as it passed

Or like someone whose SCREAMO METAL SUDDENLY TURNED ON AND THEY COULDN'T HEAR themselves thinking anymore.