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Influencing dreams was one theme I read about that they are trying to pursue. But not only TikTok. Do you also feel like TikTok is making over-night buzz for relatively silly topics, vs Instagram and Facebook.
For me tiktok is so depressing. I am single 25+ guy and seeing all those beautiful girls my age or younger makes me so sad. Than I can go to Tinder and match with pretty but not stunning girls and feel like I am getting robbed. And according to my friends I am easily in top 20% of attractiveness. Feel bad for rest of guys I guess this is life in 21 century. Governed by algorithms and feeling empty inside
I'm gonna go out on a limb but if this comment is reflective of your attitude, I don't think Tik Tok or algorithms are your biggest problem in establishing relationships with women.
I see the issue being more so with dating app algorithms, though. Those companies/algorithms are incentivized to keep men in the dating pool and paying Bumble/Tinder for dates. The best way to do this is to make those men think that they need to pay to win the game and will lose otherwise.
"We programmed bots to go down rabbit-holes. Watch as TikTok's algorithm makes our bots go down rabbit holes!" Not saying TikTok isn't spooky. But: The effort that went into making the viewer feel anxious while watching this was extreme ; and the effort that went into actual explanation of the TikTok algorithm was minimal.
- see what videos you watch and how long you stay watching them
- show you more of the same
which is all it is really saying, just spread out over 10 minutes
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I doubt TikTok's algorithm is really so awesome. It's a legend they promote to hype up their brand. I know I'm not their target demographic as I'm in my 30s, but it fails completely to show me interesting stuff. Instead, it shows what it thinks I could like. I get a lot of odd videos that start of sexualized and then turn into a prank (its a TikTok genre apparently). Or videos of woodworking. Or asian cooks. It is ve…