Earlier this year, artist Tomo Kihara presented his initial research into the biases we encounter on YouTube at the monthly planet B meetings. During these planet B meetings, scientists, artists and citizens were invited to have a dialogue about the social and ecological challenges of our time. The starting point of each meeting was the artistic work in progress of artists whose research is focused on these challenges. On December 17th, half a year later, Tomo presented his finished project: TheirTube, which also won the Creative Media Award hosted by the Mozilla Foundation this year.

On TheirTube, visitors can choose between different personas such as a fruitarian, a conspiracist, a doomsday prepper or a climate denier, to experience what kind of recommendations people with different world views get when they open YouTube. For example: what does YouTube look like through the eyes of a conspiracist? During this lunch meetup, Tomo gave a presentation about this project coming to life, as well as answered questions from the audience. Waag's Miha Turšič moderated this session.