TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning
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#2I m more annoyed that everything is in portrait.
But yeah, there's a dehumanization going on. Speeding up videos to deliver the maximum words per second to the viewer is inhuman. It started as an appeal to ADHD children, but i that meme is overdone, people actually do have attention and still interested in humans, not just what they say.
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#3At whose expense?
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#4At whose expense?
Everyone's.
Re: TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning
#5This post popped up a blocking window before I was even 3 sentences in, so maybe unsurprising that I clicked away in less than 60 seconds. If the author wants people to read whatever it is they have to say, maybe they should not put distractions in front of their writing?
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#6... but everything was mostly crap and not worth your time even before it was 60 seconds long.
If you spend your days watching "content" it's your fault.
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#7So strange to think about how Vine could’ve won this and an American company could’ve been the leader here.
Re: TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning
#8For me, the worst part is that it is so hard to go back to previous forms of media. I often delete these short form content apps in an effort to quit them, but it is now so difficult to get engaged with "slower" forms of media. The thing with Tiktok isn't the length of the media, it's just how fast-paced and "catchy" it is. I could watch an hour long fast paced video just fine, but watching a slow paced show, or reading a book is so much more difficult.
It truly is like a drug.
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#9So strange to think about how Vine could’ve won this and an American company could’ve been the leader here.
It got Kodak'd.
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#10At whose expense?
The article offers several options depending on the question's perspective. The commercial answer would be publishers of longer-form content, but the more sociologically important one would be that it is harming the ability of the average person to engage with long-form information, making the phenomenon costly to the whole world.