Which reels are you watching? What’s your algorithm dishing up?

[stoppedinmytrax]

I’m happy to admit to a bit of daily doom scrolling and my reels on FB at the moment are a (weird) mix of funeral directors (‘As the hearse turns’) and another influencer who runs a crematory in the US, plus scambaiters (‘Scammer payback’) and oh, lots of ads for gel nails, meal prep subscriptions and new sofas.

I quite like the funeral director accounts - I find the whole funeral service industry fascinating but no idea why I’m getting meal prep services when I repeatedly click ‘not my interests’. What’s your algorithm dishing up??

the Lindsay Clancy trial, parenting tips, funny videos of people falling over etc!

Continental rabbits

stoppedinmytrax you're getting the meal prep service because they think you're old. Usually they associate people looking at funnerals are planning their own, and that us usually the older demagraphic.

ETA: I have instagram and it's a pets charity, Postiive News Magazine and stuff like that.

Woodland walks and waterfalls
Cottage core and panelling diy
People spraying red paint at pickpockets
ADHD relateable funny stuff
Joy baiting

Mainly

Funeral services is probably more likely because I Google searched info about cremations and rigor mortis (long story!) but I agree that FB probably thinks I’m old and planning my own funeral.

Sorry that made me laugh. 😂

I'm bumping this, I know I didn't start it, but I want to know what other people's algorithms give them.

It's actually rather interesting.

3d drawings where you draw squiggles on a page fill them in with curved lines and they look 3D! Keep popping up
Rwd paint on pickpockets
The very British problems bloke - makes me laugh, especially the freezer skit

I like Threads and my algorithm is currently

Hyrox
Strength training for 40+.women
Feral for Andrew Scott
Cat harness cruise scammer (couldn't possibly explain this)

Ladies growing out their grey hair
Crochet reels
Shoes and lipsticks (due to my recent shopping/googling history)
And rollercoasters

mother of the bride dresses
weddings gone wrong reels
the real housewives gossip
american cop reels
and, also lots of reels about how to keep fit sitting at a in your home office which I do watch a lot of them but never do the exercises…

Guardian Livestock dogs, don’t know why, but I’m enjoying them! I don’t live on a farm

Upcycling, charity shopping, batch cooking, baking, knitting, sewing, travel.

American recipes about a thousand different things to do with minced beef. It went through a phase of giving me them in German.

Cats. Loads of cats, mostly doing silly things.

Horses. Loads of horses, mostly doing silly things.

People renovating overgrown gardens or pressure-washing patios.

Some bloke called Liam the Sign Guy cleaning filthy road signs.

Flash flooding, usually in Hicksville USA, or random forrin I can't translate.

Mudlarking & fossil-hunting.

Advice about loosening aching joints.

For a while there were clips of people using tweezers to pull crispy dead leaves out of succulent plants, but that's stopped now.

Haggis in the wild.