Video summary
In this discussion, Ryan Long explores the peculiar ways YouTube and social media algorithms curate content based on user engagement time rather than explicit requests. He illustrates how niche interests can unexpectedly dominate a feed; for instance, he found himself repeatedly served breastfeeding advice videos after briefly engaging with them, despite his personal discomfort with such material. The conversation highlights specific instances where the algorithm pushed "freak show" or borderline adult content, including fake babies used to bypass nudity restrictions on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Long describes attempting to manually retrain his feed by exclusively watching horse hoof cleaning tutorials from creators like Nate and Dry Creek Dwayne, which successfully shifted his recommendations toward ranching topics, proving that user behavior directly dictates the digital identity presented back to them. The dialogue shifts focus to a striking statistic regarding Google search trends in India, where searches for "my husband wants me to breastfeed him" rank as the number one query starting with those words globally. Long notes that while breastfeeding advice is common everywhere, Indian search results are uniquely split between instructions on how to feed an infant and how to perform oral feeding on a spouse or partner. He contrasts this with data from liberal versus conservative outlets like HuffPost, where searches for "my husband wants me to abort our first baby" appeared in the top three but not even breastfeeding porn did among liberals. Long attributes these cultural anomalies partly to themes of overbearing mothers and familial dynamics common in Indian culture, drawing parallels between strict maternal influence found in Jewish families and similar patterns observed within South Asian households where sons are often treated as "golden children." Further speculation arises regarding the nature of this phenomenon, with Long hypothesizing that such content might serve as a gateway drug into more extreme forms of adult entertainment. He suggests that what is currently trending could be an evolutionary step in global pornography consumption, comparing it to scientists observing chimpanzees beginning to use tools; similarly, he posits that society is watching degenerate porn trends evolve over decades if one were to track PornHub search data globally. This theory extends to other cultural quirks mentioned, such as Japanese men's high interest in tickling pornography on sites like Pornhub (accounting for over 10% of searches by young users), which Long connects to Japan's childlike aesthetic and anime-influenced fashion culture involving schoolgirl uniforms. Throughout the segment, there is a recurring theme of how algorithms exploit micro-expressions detected via front-facing cameras to serve targeted content that keeps viewers engaged longer than previous videos. This mechanism allows creators to bypass standard community guidelines by framing nude or suggestive breastfeeding scenarios as educational for new mothers, effectively creating loopholes where fake babies are used in place of real children. Long expresses concern over this manipulation, noting how quickly his own timeline shifted from general browsing to being flooded with specific fetishes before he could intervene. Ultimately, the conversation serves as a cautionary tale about the power of recommendation engines to define user interests and expose individuals to content they would never actively seek out, turning casual curiosity into a curated identity of niche obsessions ranging from hoof care to adult breastfeeding scenarios.
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you taught me that there is a YouTube
niche of breastfeeding advice and I
didn't even know that this was a thing I
I mean I guess that you need advice for
everything I wish I didn't know it was a
thing budy I hope you I hope you're not
in the situation I am because the
problem with the algorithms and this is
I've been saying this with you know I I
I got on disability Tik Tok right which
is what are you jerk off to so there's
this guy he just like rolls around he's
got no arms and legs and there's like a
bunch of them right and and he's this
guy's you're laughing the guy's crushing
he's probably bazillionaire right now
rolling into a bag of money right
but the thing is the algorithm is so
wild because you don't ask for it but it
you know if you were I said if you were
walking around the street and there was
a guy rolling around on this floor or
like taking out [ __ ] in the alley like
of course you would look more than you
would just look at a normal person and
then the algorithm's like oh that's your
[ __ ] huh so it's like that's that's all
you get now so if you w like so now when
I see any freak Show content I try to
scroll as fast as I can okay but I guess
they got me with the breast
beer they kep just D it's a literal like
you know only fans chick just sitting
there you know fake baby oh I don't know
if you I didn't mention that part in the
special they got fake babies too so
basically it's a loophole that you can
be nude on Instagram if it's
breastfeeding content okay even if it's
not a real child well I don't know the
legist stick to the real or fake child
cuz maybe you could say it's you know
they it's educational practicing it's a
practice child yeah and you know and
they say it's for new mothers that's why
my my special I'm just like yeah it's
10,000 new mothers that's who's watching
this but so they have basically fake
babies now and then they they're feeding
this to me man I'm the demo that I don't
watch it anymore they keep giving it to
me like you did that one time though you
love it well it's funny to work out
whether or not it it was like them
activating a secret thing that you
actually did one in the back of your
mind what tits yeah oh you're [ __ ]
zany me I I if I'm seeing a full out
pair of tits on my timeline I I scroll a
little slower [ __ ] wacko I remember I
remember reading the uh Tik Tok terms of
service thing that was in some news
article and they were talking about how
the app is allowed to use the
front-facing camera to detect micro
Expressions how would it they must have
mapped the way that your face moves and
then it's watching you and you see some
of the the breastfeeding so if you go
like that well yeah but that's a
reaction right so maybe that's good
maybe that's bad I'm sure they've like M
the the micro expression to breastfeed
fake breastfeeding porn real
breastfeeding porn to a fake baby I
guess technically uh I mean yeah
whatever you hacked the system you
figured out how to be nude on the
internet to get people to subscribe to
your things and get views it's a
probably good but yeah the problem is
now the algorithm is just the whole
thing's based on did you look at it for
longer than you looked at the last thing
this is now your thing hey guess what
this is this is your entire identity
yeah and well that's you know it's one
thing to be like you know you you
tricked me into having an algorithm full
of boobs it's a whole another thing to
be like you tricked me in having a whole
algorithm full of like guys whose faces
are burned off right or rolling around
quadriplegics rolling around in bags of
money you know what I TR I tried to hack
my algorithm where I went and just so my
I my Facebook and my boys cast uh page
so I only scroll through those and I I
loaded my up and I watched like only
horse hoof tutorials so now so now
thinks you're a
Rancher and what are you still getting
delivered all of the that's the majority
of what I get now I have like favorite
hoof guys now and stuff like
that like I have I've literally like
watch hoof content of a guy just clean
it off and I'll be like guys's missing a
spot like Nate the hoof guy would never
miss exactly he's nowhere near as good
as Dry Creek Dwayne and then I got into
horseshoes too so I got I got horses ho
so that's all I get right now and
actually life's been better right ever
since I pivoted from watching
breastfeeding content to horse hoof
cleaning content yeah everything's gone
right so uh I wanted to teach you about
this book that I read a couple of years
ago um the number one Google search in
India that starts with the sentence my
husband wants dot dot dot is my husband
wants me to breastfeed him so porn
featuring adult breastfeeding is higher
in India than anywhere else in the world
why is that in just about every country
nearly all Google searches looking for
advice on breastfeeding is how to
breastfeed a baby in India Google
searches looking for breastfeeding
advice are equally split between how to
breastfeed a baby and how to breastfeed
your husband
so I mean it has to be I know a guy
who's into this uh have You Met My Buddy
JJ met JJ yeah yeah yeah exactly is he
Indian uh no he should be yeah yeah but
it's they have some messed up thing he's
got a you know overbearing Jewish mother
he freaking messed that he's got a
[ __ ] egpus complex about so Indian
dudes I where I I grew up in like right
around Toronto which is like huge Indian
population so a lot of people where I
grew up with are Indian I have relatives
that are Indian
and uh they do have a culture of a bit
of an overbearing mother I think so
India especially like the boys are very
like The Golden Child to the mom so you
know to some degree uh going to be
babied later in life as well it's got to
be related to you know obviously that
has something to do with mom [ __ ] right
and maybe it's something to do with like
I think Indian people have that same
like overbearing Jewish mother like an
overbearing Jew Indian mother I wonder
why it's not I don't know how much sort
of Jew the dad you're always to get her
real
bad I wonder know how much Jew
breastfeeding porn there is
uh definitely not between the hours of
whatever it is 6 P p.m. on a Friday uh
so this huff post person that was doing
this well you know why the Jewish people
do it why well because milk's
free you're
awful you're awful uh so this huff post
person uh put a search in uh put
searched my husband wants me top
searches that came up my husband wants
me to breastfeed him my husband wants me
to abort our first baby my husband wants
me to sleep with other men my husband
wants me to quit my husband wants me to
quit my job and then a conservative
person did it at huff post my husband
wants divorce breast milk oral all the
time meet to breastfeed him like this
breastfeeding all time's not that crazy
I guess but that's four that that came
in as like third yeah yeah yeah after
divorce and breast milk it didn't even
appear for the liberal person either
what's your theory as to why I don't
know the Indian thing really I wonder
whether it was maybe something to do
with the sacredness you're from London
London's super high Indian population
similar yeah it the whole UK is uh
pretty high sort of subcontinental stuff
but I I wondered whether it was
something to do with like cows cow milk
the sacredness of saying their mom's
[Laughter]
fat I thought it might be you think it's
the sacredness of cows no you're that's
not it no evidently not no you've got to
have a more sophisticated [ __ ]
thought process I don't know I don't
know what's going on ask JJ I'm sure he
he might be tell you it's messed up
mother stuff okay and what's it all of
India overbearing mothers just across
the entire country well not every I mean
a lot of Indians so I don't know if all
of them are on the on the breastfeeding
searches well it's an I'll tell another
thing okay this is my other
Theory that's like you know how that's
like being in defeat like one above that
in a sense where it's like it's not I'm
not maybe I'm not that crazy yet you
know what I mean in their mind they're
like this is like I'm [ __ ] this kinky
dude but it's it's you haven't fully
crossed over into you know the craziest
stuff so maybe this is like a animal
necrofilia yeah maybe that's one of
those things where it's like India is
getting into breastfeeding stuff and
you're just like
oh yeah that was America 25 years ago
are you saying are you saying that it's
a gateway drug that's what that's my
hypothesis breastfeeding porn is the
gateway drug into much more hardcore
yeah this might be like a transitional
period you go you check in on India
seven years from now you're like that's
not even the top not even crack in the
top 20 it's like uh when they they look
at chimpanzees and stuff and they say it
seems like chimpanzees are beginning to
first use tools and it's like oh my God
I'm watching them evolve in front of my
eyes and it's the same thing but with
like degenerate porn for Indian people
yeah exactly this might be a
transitionary step but I think it's also
a transitionary step because of the
other stuff right I wonder what we're
going to see in a few decades time and
we're going to be like like sedimentary
rock we can just track the PornHub
searches of all of the like everybody
across the world and see who's out front
that being said uh Japanese
men have recently become obsessed with
tickling porn more than 10% of PornHub
searches for young Japanese men are for
tickling that one I really don't ever
see I don't know Japanese guys I know
Indian people pretty well I don't know
the Japanese as well they want to be
tickled that's what that's all you need
to know I mean if I was to guess
um this is a completely out of nowhere
what you're saying that this isn't a
well researched opinion that you're
about to put in front of us stuffs on
the
money okay I feel like I'm tapped into
the Indian culture okay uh Japanese
stuff my guess would be that Japanese
culture is very childlike you know it's
like if you look at all the you know
they have the girls where it's hot and
they're basically like dressed like you
know school girls yeah know school girls
the anime kids stuff so if you think of
you know that stuff being very popular
oh it's like babying tickling is very
cartoony ah I think he might be on to
something there that wasn't total dog
[ __ ] that was yeah that has to if I was
to make a connection between two things
it's the childlike you know fashion
stuff versus uh you know that stuff you
know you do you do change your you know
like idea you ever watch like a a movie
about like you know uh an like a place
that's all not white people and you know
whether that be like Asian or you know
and then you leave that like let's say
you watch the whole thing about [ __ ]
Jamaica or something you leave that kind
of being like I like I think I'm into
black girls like you know what I mean in
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