These algorithms are not solely based on the things you watch. I believe it’s also based on your location and even close contacts. So if, hypothetically, I live in shithole Trumpistan with my racist uncle and he likes watching Hitler Youth “own the libs” then YouTube will recommend it to me too

The internet got a lot less annoying after I learned how to use uBlock Origin’s “Enter element picker mode”

A very similar thing happened to me a while back. Mine was “only” a 10% pay cut but it was extremely demotivating.

Of course, since I was in the US I had no such thing as a tribunal