May 07, 2019

Algorithms...

As I catch up on stuff not pertaining to school, I note that over the last year or so, I've absentmindedly ended up following 261 artists on Pixiv. This is a result mainly of irresponsible use of the FOLLOW button. I also support 4 artists via Pixiv Fanbox. The focus of these sites range from cute animations to landscapes to city-scapes to historical inaccuracies to first person analysis of the male gaze. You know what exactly none of these 261 sites are focused on? Boys Love.

So why the heck am I getting ads for...

Glistening sweat! Illustrations of Sporty Boys

?

What the what?

Now, I do not begrudge the aficionados of such works their preferred content, and I think that its great that Pixiv caters to all demographics in need of...visual reference material for work and school, so this would not normally be an issue. However, I do wonder, why, with 261 bishie-free data points that their algorithm keeps sending me this in my Things I'll Probably Like box.

Shorter version: I really need to cull the number of artists I'm following. Also I'm being stalked by a gay Japanese A.I.

Oh well, enough of my first world problems, here is a rendering of a pigeon by どっこい.


No pigeons were harmed in the course of this post.

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1 Frankly, nothing makes me more copacetic about the Evil Google Panopticon that's out to mine every last bit of personal information in order to deliver ads custom-targeted to my unique profile, than... seeing the ads they actually show me. More misses than hits, that's for sure.

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Wed May 8 01:30:12 2019 (v29Tn)

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