The "new to you" tab has failed
I used to like this tab to find new stuff instead of the same few things just constantly repeated on my feed, you know, because YouTube failed with their regulations feed algorithm years ago. But I've noticed over the last few months that it was showing me some of the same repeated bs it was giving me on my regular feed. And now it's almost all the same stuff. I went through the first 50 videos, and only two were videos that I'd never been recommended before. About 10 were videos that I had only passes up a few time. The rest were all videos that I've been passing up several times a day for the last couple weeks.
It used to be more stuff that YouTube barely or never recommended to me before. Now it's mostly stuff that they've recommended a lot but that I've also passed over a lot. It is stuff that I might watch one day when I'm in the mood so I don't want to click the "not interested" or "don't recommend channel" options. I still want that stuff to show up in my regular feed. I don't want it in "new to you," though, because it's not really new to me. I've seen it plenty and know about it and have chosen not to watch it. I'm looking at "new to me" for other options. I especially don't wanted recommendations for videos from channels I'm already subscribed to.
Also, the stuff under "new to you" is a lot more like stuff I've already watched then it used to be. Like I watch video game essays and theories. It used to give me recommendations for those things in general, but now it's more specific to games. Like if I watch a video on cyberpunk theories then a video essay about Skyrim, all the videos recommended are about cyberpunk and Skyrim. Or a better example, I've watched several videos on TV and movie theories in the last month. Each video about a different movie or tv show. Now, instead of recommending more theory videos, YouTube is just recommending videos about those specific shows and movies. Videos that aren't at all theory videos. I watched a theory video about the sixth sense, and now I'm getting recommendations for deleted scenes and bloopers. I watched a theory video about the big bang theory, and now I get recommended a bunch of clip videos for the big bang theory.
A year ago, anytime I couldn't figure out something to watch I could go to this tab and I'd find something in the first few recommendations. Now I spend 20 minutes looking through the tab before I give up and turn on Hulu and HBO.