When Youtube intentionally hides their topic videos. When I look for a song, I used to be able to search "(song) topic" or audio. I don't want a random person's low-quality bitcrushed slideshow from 2008.
I noticed when I do get a topic video, they often try to direct me to acoustic or live or "clean radio edit" versions of a song I’m searching for by name.
Literally every single version of a song ever made, except the only one anyone would look for.
Always popular ones, too. Songs that people search for to hear the original album version, because they just want the fucking song. Who the fuck looks up a song by its name to listen to the acapella version? Who does this benefit?
Or another fun one: it'll suggest every other song from the same album, all topic uploads. So you have to click on one of those to get the topic of the song you wanted in the recommendation bar. It feels like YT is trying to prevent me from seeing what they know I'm looking for.
You have to recommendation hop to find a topic video for something as basic as Justin Bieber's "Baby". And all of this is if you can find a topic video instead of being stuck with the music video or nothing. Yeah, I want to listen to three quarters of a censored song interlaced with sound effects and dialogue from the music video.