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I don't doubt good videos exist - I'm blaming YouTube for boosting the awful ones so it's all I see in my first page of search results, and the 'creators' who make them.

>>silisi+(OP)
As for search results, I cannot help you.

As for recommendation, the algorithm works perfectly if you make the effort to "Like and subscribe™" to quality channels and videos. It's amazing how good YouTube can be if you curate the algorithm with this – and with dislikes if you have to.

>>carlos+B9
Yeah I find generally YouTube to recommend me interesting stuff.

I've gotten recommended videos by creators with <1k subs that I really enjoyed, and many with <10k subs.

I've gotten recommended videos with topics I hadn't really thought about but which I ended up enjoying.

Sure there's about 10% or so that I'm not interested in, but I just mark those as "don't recommend channel" and move on. And the times I just need to check out some stupid clickbait, I make sure to remove it from my history afterwards.