Fresh X account with zero preferences gets a feed full of suggestive content
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-10-17
The author created a new X account for a project, skipped all preference screens, and found the first four items on the "For you" feed were sexualized content — so much so that he cropped the first image, asking "What are we doing here?"
It exposes a cold-start problem in X's recommendation algorithm: with zero interest signals, the default content skew is questionable.
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