We think our temperature perception is strictly temperature, while a large component of our temperature perception is not temperature but change of temperature.

We think our temperature perception is strictly temperature, while a large component of our temperature perception is not temperature but change of temperature. (We have both really...) Similarily our experience of sadness and happiness tends to be a comparative assessment (compared to 5 seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks ... ago). So if you are a platform that generates income from advertisement, and if advertisements must be felt as positive, you optimize for negative background (content) videos, such that the advertisements are relatively positive as a result. Now is that a reflection of the consuming individual's character flaws? I think not