YouTube recommended a 14 minute video on how to peel a banana. I clicked it. 14 minutes. A banana.

So I was looking up how to ripen avocados faster for a guac test before a party this weekend. YouTube autoplay kicked in and next thing I know there's this super serious guy with a whiteboard explaining the "optimal biomechanics" of opening a banana. Not the stem trick, not the monkey way, just... peeling. He had charts. Real charts with arrows. I watched the whole thing because I kept waiting for the twist where the banana turns out to be a rare artifact or something. Nope. Just bananas. The algorithm thought I needed this after one avocado search. Has anyone else gotten weirdly specific tutorials for stuff you already know how to do, like tying shoes or opening a door? What's the most absurd one you've sat through?

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martinez.val1d ago

Wait, did the banana video actually have a twist ending where he revealed that peeling it wrong causes some kind of banana-related crime? I had a similar thing happen after I searched how to make scrambled eggs fluffy. The algorithm threw me a 20 minute video on the "proper way to hold a fork" and I sat through the whole thing waiting for some secret about egg safety or something. But no, it was just a dude with a laser pointer explaining grip pressure and wrist angle. These videos are like internet rabbit holes full of people who took a simple thing way too seriously, and now my feed thinks I'm some kind of produce and cutlery expert. Honestly, I'd rather watch a 14 minute banana peel video again than get another tutorial on how to open a milk carton without spilling, which I also got once and hated every second of it.