MK 365: The YouTube Algorithm Decides What We Eat For A Day

If y’all could please comment early on this video. Cause we know that spikes you in the algorithm. That’d be really cool if you could do that, because if this experiment doesn’t work, I really put my name on this video idea. Welcome to mythical kitchen, where dreams become a combination of personalization and performance signals designed to process videos and associated content in order to rank that content based on subjective hierarchical relevance. So we make a lot of videos here, right? And some of those videos get more views than others. And any YouTuber will tell you that at the end of the day we’re all beholden to the algorithm. So to decide what to make next we figured we would consult the algorithm itself. So behold, the mighty algorithm! ♪ We pray to Google founder Sergey Brin, ♪ ♪ and YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki. ♪ ♪ Algorithm, give us your knowledge ♪ ♪ so we can pay our employees. ♪ As we all know, that was translated from the original ancient Sumerian hymn to invoke the algorithm. This is an early prototype that Rhett and Link actually used back in ’08 to gain the algorithm to build the empire here. So we are using it today to spit out a dish based on the top food search terms in all of YouTube. So let me set it up real quick. Okay. There we go. Must put the head on the altar. Must dial the sandstorm number from middle school. The number where you’d call and it would just play Sandstorm for you. Antennas up. Algorithm, make this video go viral. Gordon Ramsay, pizza, cake, cheese, fried chicken, ASMR, and mukbang. Today we will be making a Gordon Ramsay pizza cake cheese fried chicken ASMR mukbang. Well, if the algorithm wills it who I to argue, let’s get cooking. Gordon Ramsay pizza cake cheese fried chicken ASMR mukbang. It’s like we’re trying to awaken a Russian sleeper agent and Rosanna Pansino is just gonna pop out and like start mercing people. I only mentioned Rosanna, well, one she’s lovely a friend of the show, but two I feel like cake being there is because of Rosanna. There was some actual methodology to this. We took the top Google search terms on YouTube. We took eight of the top 25, and we strung them together to form a barely coherent video. There were some outliers in there like Juice WRLD, RIP, was listed under food. And so this is a dish that we created. So now here’s the fried chicken cheese pizza part of fried chicken cheese pizza cake ASMR mukbang. So we’re gonna make a fried chicken pizza and then we’re gonna stack it up like a cake using Gordon Ramsay’s tried and true mashed potato method. So I’m gonna take a pizza dough, and then we’re popping it into, I think this dish is actually taste really good. There were like four different thoughts that went around in my head, and then I just decided to shut it down. I was like, no, you can just stop speaking right now. I’m taking some pizza dough, I’m gonna start pressing it out into this nine inch spring form here because we’re gonna have to stack this together like a cake, because that is part of it. And we’re gonna use the gravy as a sauce, which I don’t think I’ve ever made a straight up gravy pizza, which is shocking for a person like me who is probably one of the top three people you’d have think of in the world. If you were to poll people who has made a gravy based pizza, I feel like I’d be one of the top three Google answers, right? Right? Also several of the Google questions about me, as in “is Mythical Chef Josh a real chef?” I’ll answer that. No. Fake. I forged my chef diploma online. also “Mythical Chef Josh net worth.” I am not worth 1.5 million dollars from my quote “journalism career,” which anybody involved in journalism knows how hilarious that one is. I drive an Altima, dog. We’re taking this gravy. This is all from KFC. You can make it from scratch at home. If you too are trying to please the algorithm gods. Ah, algorithm shine your light upon the today. KFC gravy has a very distinctive wobble to it where it’s almost halfway to pudding. I feel like if you were to freeze this it would just become a nice chicken and chemical flavored custard. This is a pizza modeled after KFC’s famous bowl because we know how much y’all love seeing big brand logos in the thumbnails. You ever wonder why everyone’s doing “we ate everything on this fast food menu.” It’s because people click on it. If you ever wonder why anyone is doing anything on YouTube, you, you are why they’re doing it. The algorithm, it knows you better than you know yourself. You ever why you’re scroll through like the TikkyTokky, And you’re like, “why are they serving me that, I’m not into that.” “That’s weird.” And then you watch like 60 videos and you’re like “I do love Inuit throat singing.” And we got some beautiful popcorn chicken. This is the fried chicken part, fried chicken fried chicken, fried chicken, cheese, fried chicken. I’m hoping there’s the metadata. Picks it up and just pumps our video to more people. You know, I didn’t realize because these it does that, right? Like it literally translates what you’re saying into a script. And then it uses AI to scrape that for what you’re talking about. It’s a freaky job, everyone’s like, “what do you do for, oh, you’re a chef, that’s so cool.” It’s like, no, my whole, my whole career is just trying to dodge this, the algorithm man. I feel like I’m going a little, little crazy here. Okay, lovely. So we have our beautiful popcorn chicken. Mmm, yum! And then, oh, fly on the corn. Spy for the algorithm! They’re out there! We got some corn on there and now we’re gonna pop this beach in the oven, and then, um, Gordon Ramsay’s gonna be in the thumbnail, so he’ll be here. ♪ Gordon Ramsay. ♪ ♪ You are my favorite You-hoo-Tuber ♪ ♪ bless us with all your views. ♪ ♪ You are richer than God. ♪ That of course is the ancient Sumerian Gordon Ramsay incantation This is Gordon Ramsay’s mashed potato recipe that we will be using as the icing for our fried chicken cheese pizza cake ASMR Gordon Ramsay mukbang. So we’re gonna take some nice Yukon gold potatoes. Also, if y’all could please comment early on this video cause we know that spikes you in the algorithm. That’d be really cool if you could do that, because if this experiment doesn’t work, I really put my name on this video idea and I just, I really, I really need this to happen. Please make this happen for me. So, sorry, chef. Excuse me, chef, behind, chef. So we are boiling off some cold water, the Yukon potatoes. We’re not gonna ever let it come up to a boil. They’re gonna simmer. According to Gordon Ramsay, potatoes get gluey, When you boil them instead of simmer them, I ain’t never really heard anything about that. Maybe another Gordon Ramsay myth to test out, huh? And then we are going to make our infused cream right here. Oh, don’t scald your cream! As much crap as I talk to Gordon Ramsay, this is actually a really incredible way to make mashed potatoes. You take all your aromatics, like your bay leaves a whole lot of garlic. We’re gonna try and mass palm-heel strike here. Sorry chef, excuse me, chef. There we go. Oh, Josh, big boy. Come on! No! Get a few cracks of black pepper in there. That’s gonna infuse the cream in there. And when you’re strain out, you get all that fun little pepperiness and then a whole lot of nutmeg. Gordon Ramsay calls for like an inordinate amount of nutmeg in this. What do, why is this just, God, man. It’s the algorithm Algorithm! Algorithm, stop your godly magic! All right, we’re gonna let this come to a simmer, we’re gonna let that come to the simmer. We’re gonna strain it, we’re gonna rice it. We’re gonna get it all nice and mushy. All right, this is nice and infused. We’re gonna start creaming our potatoes. And hey, speaking of creaming, good mythical evenings coming up! It’s on September 1st, exclusively with Moment House this year! Go get you tickets at goodmythicalevening.com. It is too raunchy for the algorithm. It’s too sexual for the algorithm. We say curse words, which the algorithm doesn’t like. Thanks, you You can even recognize Bleeps now? Network television has had bleeps for decades and it worked out for them, but YouTube can’t? Oh, Josh, quit getting your nickers in a twist! Alright, so gonna take the cream that is infused with all of the bay leaf and the garlic and the pepper and the nutmeg. And we’re actually gonna, I like to mash the garlic. Cause I think the cream that gets trapped inside the garlic is the most potent cream other than Gordon’s. Yeah. Wash my feet, you sultry little monkey. This Gordon Ramsay method goes against what we found in Myth Munchers, which is that ricing does not create as good of a potato as a nice mash or whip as we use the stand mixer or the hand, the hand mixer, brother of stand mixer. Remember that was like called back to one specific episode with Trevor doing a bit that everybody loved. Okay. All right, rice these potatoes in, jeez that takes a lot of strength. We’re gonna get this back on the heat and then we’re gonna infuse the cream in there slowly with our butter to create again this is the icing for a fried chicken cheese pizza cake mukbang ASMR Gordon Ramsay. Algorithm, please, please, don’t let this video flop. I’m just mixing it up a little bit. Just create a little well for our cream we’re gonna slowly add our hot cream in there to incorporate it. If you add it too quickly, then you’re not gonna get the potatoes anything to really grab onto and you’re gonna be slopping around in a soup. Oh yeah. Oh, these are, Gordon, do you think these are sensual mashed potatoes? My gran could do better, and she’s dead! Ooh, he tickles. I’m just gonna dump all this butter in. Yeah, that’s a good amount of butter. Season up of salt, little bit of crack pepper. Even though we got all that infused in there, I like nice chunky crack pepper in my mashed petrados, and whip this up. Turn off the heat. Cause you never want to add too much heat to butter. This is looking really, this is looking mighty nice, Gordo. Also I really need to squash my beef with Gordon Ramsay. Cause if like, if you would ever come on the show that’d be big for us. That’d be great, because we can, we could barely afford the cutout. I, love, money! Disney Pixar Frozen cake decorating, super cute, Finding Nemo, Kids’ birthday cupcake. Sorry, we got our keyword in. So we’re gonna start decorating our cake right here. Put a little, little dollop of the potatoes right there. So that way our cake doesn’t move, beautiful. Now what I’m going to do to make this the bangiest of all mukbangs. I’m gonna pipe a nice ring of potatoes around the outside here. Beautiful, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold! To please the algorithm, non-sexually. All right. We’ll leave that now. And then I’m gonna take a bowl of gravy. Cause if there’s one thing TikTok has taught me they love liquids leaking out of centers. You know, there’s that one guy in Brazil, he like fills a brick of bread with Nutella and then he breaks it apart and stares at you with just dead eyes, like a doll. So we’re doing that. I could never be a cake decorating YouTuber. Not that anyone is asking me to. Unless, Algorithm, if it pleases you, I will make Disney Frozen Finding Nemo cute super princess cupcake challenge kid’s birthday party unboxing. Ryan’s toys, come save us! Now we’re gonna take some fried chicken. Arrange it on top, lovingly. Oh, can someone grab me some corn? I wanna garnish with corn. We’re really flying, but there wasn’t a big plan for this video. We figured algorithm would take care of all of it. And now we’re just flying by the seat of our ding dongs right here. This is the final dissent into madness. Like, I’m remembering like two months in to making these videos. And people are like, “is Josh going a little crazy?” And I was like, “no, I’m fine.” And then now it’s just like, “I’m fine, The algorithm says so!” Don’t you algorithm? Don’t you? Don’t you? As we have a cut out of Gordon Ramsay and I’m making a pizza cake. And just garnish with chives and now we gotta mukbang this whole thing. And the only mukbanger I’ve ever watched is a person named Nikocado Avocado, who is the perfect example of what happens when you chase the algorithm into dark places you don’t want to go. This is pretty cool though. Wait, hold on, like, Eh, maybe the algorithm knows what it’s talking about cause I’m excited to eat this. This is the ASMR mukbang portion of our Gordon Ramsay fried chicken cheese pizza cake ASMR mukbang. I will now, sensually, cut into the fried chicken cheese pizza cake Gordon Ramsay ASMR mukbang. Wow. I like to put hot sauce on my food. Do you like when it’s hot? Honestly, ASMR videos creep me the hell out. What’s wrong with all of you people? I’m so sorry. Our sound guy, Chris, has the headphones in and he must be experiencing some weird stuff right now. I got gravy on my inner thigh because, I am wearing jorts and it fell into my lap. Wow. It’s not quite wet enough. I’m gonna open the gravy. My hands are too greasy from the gravy. For the love of God, can we stop this video? We need to stop. ♪ – [Josh] I forgot to pray to Google co-founder Larry Page. ♪ ♪ I just mentioned Serge Brin earlier, but was also ♪ ♪ Larry Page. ♪ ♪ And that’s why the algorithm is broken. ♪ ♪ As you see the face is smashed. ♪ Amen. Well, algorithm, what do you think of our Gordon Ramsay fried chicken cheese pizza cake ASMR mukbang. I offer it to you on the altar. What say thee? Beep bop boop. Beep boop. “You are doomed to roll the content rock” “up a hill until one day, it crushes you” “Ha ha ha,” “ha ha ha,” “ha ha ha.” Well, hey, if anyone’s down to take on a Sisyphean content task, it’s me and I wouldn’t want to be there with anybody else but you. Thank you so much for stopping by the mythical kitchen. We got new episodes for you until the day we die. We got new episodes of our podcast every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcast. Hit us up on Instagram and TikTok. Let’s break down those algorithms next. 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