YouTube's Two AI Job Narratives // AIDRAN

The structural problem is not that YouTube hosts conflicting views — it is that the platform's recommendation logic presents those views as if they are in conversation when they are aimed at entirely separate viewers. The replacement shorts ^[2]^[4] are optimized for anxiety; the reassurance content is optimized for professionals seeking frameworks. lands in neither stream because it is too qualified to be motivating and too uncertain to be reassuring. The audiences never actually meet — and the content is engineered to keep…

YouTube's AI Job Videos Are Saying Two Incompatible Things at Once

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