yeah. full disclosure, i go far back to get latest couple of hundreds of videos. (i may increase this in the future) and filter out the crap that is live, shorts, and all the restricted non embeddable ones. and i get all their stats.
so i try to have around at least 100 "proper" ones of the latest videos.
even for mrbeast for example it goes back till 2019. and believe me, old videos are not that attractive to "kids", i was going to say, but i found myself skipping them too.
and present the user with an option to order by highest rated or highest viewed.
this way i get latest videos of the channel. eg. ordered by the most viewed.
and it plays continuously. shuffled in batches of 5.
What you described is clearly an algorithm. But i assume what you mean by “no algorithm” is that you are not using a machine learning based recommendation engine.
even for mrbeast for example it goes back till 2019. and believe me, old videos are not that attractive to "kids", i was going to say, but i found myself skipping them too.
and present the user with an option to order by highest rated or highest viewed.
this way i get latest videos of the channel. eg. ordered by the most viewed. and it plays continuously. shuffled in batches of 5.