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I dont quite understand. Could you explain further?

• chvid 7y ago
  In journalism a good story is new, it has an element of conflict and it concerns someone relatable (someone famous or someone close to you). That sort of thinking caries over to a lot of modern social media. TikTok breaks that. They don't want conflict. They don't particular care about your social network. And even if stuff is new. They will show me for example some random girl dancing (not particular) well, some koreans doing a magic trick, something local. Lots of bad jokes. You are basically playing with an algorithm; they obviously have some way of measuring feedback. But everything is kept in a certain mood: fast, youthful, cheerful. And also amateurish which just makes you want to participate. It is quite different from Facebook, Twitter and Instragram. And I think it is a major evolution of social media.
  • tekkk 7y ago
    Ahh I see. That sounds refreshing indeed. The constant conflict in every media is really quite annoying and I imagine I'm not the only one who thinks so.
    • _nalply 7y ago
      However they do what everybody does: try to addict consumers.
  • DEADBEEFC0FFEE 7y ago
    What I find most interesting is pace, the iterative nature and the extreme remix culture. It's basically a massive visual generic algorithm.