It’s YouTube music, which is showing popular “podcasts” on its explore page. Must be just because it’s popular because nothing in my algo on either youtube or YouTube music would suggest this shit.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t get podcasts on my front page, clicked on podcasts and even “popular” didn’t get anything like that. Joe Rogan and some other nonsense. Do they know you are a guy? That would be even more disturbing somehow, if they are only showing this to men.

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      3 hours ago

      This wasn’t on the home page it was on the explore page, where it shows the top 25, new releases, trending etc.

      I think my music interests would probably point to me being a guy