For those who had hassle looking YouTube on Monday for the complete Donald Trump interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast, you weren’t alone.
I first observed there was a difficulty with YouTube surfacing the episode through a tweet from David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founder of Basecamp and the creator of the Ruby on Rails. The problem? For those who tried to go looking YouTube for one thing like “Joe Rogan Trump” on Monday, the way in which most individuals would have most likely tried to seek out the podcast episode in the event that they weren’t already subscribed to Rogan’s channel, you’d have solely gotten some YouTube shorts; some related segments from cable channels like MSNBC; and clips from the complete Trump interview.
I used to be in a position to replicate the difficulty, and likewise observed that for those who tried the same question with Rogan’s different latest visitors (like Brian Cox and Luke Bryan), YouTube pulled up their full episodes simply wonderful.
“Tried to seek out the Rogan/Trump interview on YouTube however it doesn’t matter what I search, it’s not developing,” Hansson tweeted through his @DHH account (a tweet, I ought to add, that’s racked up 2.2 million views on X as of this writing). “Could be past bonkers in the event that they’re actively making an attempt to suppress it. Have to be a glitch, proper?”
I used to be in a position to pull up the complete episode of Rogan’s podcast with the Trump interview Monday evening by looking YouTube for “Joe Rogan Trump,” after having tried unsuccessfully all through the day. Importantly, you might additionally all the time go on to Rogan’s channel and watch the interview there, as hundreds of thousands of individuals have achieved up to now (video of the complete Trump episode has pulled in 35 million views on YouTube as of this writing).
Nonetheless, the truth that video of the episode didn’t come up in YouTube searches for it on Monday led to hypothesis that YouTube could be suppressing it one way or the other, maybe based mostly on a few of Trump’s feedback within the episode. Sarcastically, YouTube additionally surfaced a clip of Joe Rogan’s response to his Trump interview on Monday, whereas making it exhausting to seek out the precise episode. I’ve additionally seen unsubstantiated claims on-line positing that there was some mass-reporting of the video happening, which precipitated some form of algorithmic suppression to kick in.
Lengthy story quick: There undoubtedly was a difficulty. YouTube has confirmed there was a difficulty, with out popping out and saying it was a bug of some type. However the assertion from YouTube beneath does clarify that the Trump episode was not being surfaced in response to YouTube search queries the place it ought to have been.
“WRT Joe Rogan/Pres.Trump interview and YT search outcomes: Since airing Friday, the interview has generated over 34 million views on YouTube and counting, making it Joe Rogan’s most seen episode of the 12 months. For some searches on Monday the unique 3-hour interview didn’t seem prominently. Quick excerpts uploaded by the Joe Rogan channel appeared, however we all know it was irritating for customers trying to discover the complete video. We’ve labored to resolve this and viewers will start seeing the complete podcast in additional YouTube search outcomes quickly.”
The underside line is that the difficulty ought to be mounted now. However don’t get me began on the frequency with which these bugs appear to hit one specific aspect of the political spectrum.
