What's been funny is how there's been so many trends that relate to exploiting the engagement stats. For a long time, there were a lot of videos begging for lik

What's been funny is how there's been so many trends that relate to exploiting the engagement stats. For a long time, there were a lot of videos begging for likes or claiming that the heart would be purple on the particular video; this seemed to lead to a de-emphasis of likes. There's a lot of videos/sounds that involve a long build up leading to a short reveal, making sure the viewer finishes the video. One-frame image reveals encourage downloads and replays, and content hidden behind the interface can often lead to many downloads. Videos explaining how to repeatedly hit the share link button will sometimes have more shares than views. There's endless numbers of alternative spellings of words like sex and porn to avoid the edgy content filters, but I suppose that's a given. The hashtags are weird to me since #xyzcba seemed to actually have an effect for a while. The things I didn't know in this article were the stuff about device type (what is that used for?) and the initial 8 videos. Perhaps the next trend I'll see is flexing on having an unlocked, AT&T-branded Samsung G892A.