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People say things like this in an attempt at shaming the original poster but one thing not considered is the location of the person using TikTok. I live in a b

People say things like this in an attempt at shaming the original poster but one thing not considered is the location of the person using TikTok. I live in a big city and most of the feed is highly sexualised, highly political, or highly prank-related. My friend that lives in a small town about 100 miles away has to essentially send me fun tiktok videos and, no matter how many likes I do of those videos, the base diet of sexual, political, or prank-related videos are always there.

dsrees 6y ago
Not a tiktok user, but I know instagram also fills your explore feed with the content that your friends like. So even if you're tailoring your likes to appropriate posts, your friends may not be.
- rchaud 6y ago
  That may just be the initial period after a user has signed up and hasn't engaged with enough content for IG to show anything under "Discover". They may use friends' preferences as a placeholder. I know for a fact that what's on my Discover feed (surrealist art, UX/UI stuff, Newfie dog videos) is unique to me.
dilap 6y ago
I don't think likes are actually a big signal, it's mostly based on watch time in my experience.
sandworm101 6y ago
>> one thing not considered is the location of the person using TikTok. I run into this daily. I'm in the military and so my internet connection at work is mingled with a thousand other military people. Ok, it is accurate to say we are predominantly male and younger, but every time I see an ad does it have to an an anime character? Some of us recently gathered to watch the DC riot footage on youtube. The footage started with a non-skippable ad for some pervy anime game. Try holding a strait face in front of the general as a busty cartoon character in a negligee is bouncing up and down on a ten-foot screen.
- johnchristopher 6y ago
  I don't know, there's something reaaaaally dystopian and weird and fun but concerning about the chain of events that led to that situation. I personally use ublock to correct in real time my world lenses.
- exhilaration 6y ago
  Try holding a strait face in front of the general as a busty cartoon character in a negligee is bouncing up and down on a ten-foot screen. Classic! I love real world tidbits like this. I would suggest in the future use youtube-dl https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html to download the video to your machine to avoid situations like this.
  - sandworm101 6y ago
    There are all sort of ways to do this, but they are difficult in the military context. We gathered in one room because youtube/facebook is blocked on our normal office machines. This was an unrestricted podium computer used for totally unclassified stuff like streaming live news feeds. Like most corporate networks, we aren't allowed to just install software, even simple browser extensions have to go through an approval process.
    - johnchristopher 6y ago
      Can you talk a bit about the ambiance and the reactions in the room as the events unfolded ? If you can, that is.
      - sandworm101 6y ago
        There was no reaction. This is normal. The unfiltered internet is full of inappropriately sexual ads.
        johnchristopher 6y ago
judge2020 6y ago
Note that you can also hold on the video then click ‘not interested’.
- neilsense 6y ago
  I hadn't found this piece of UI yet, will try and do that too, thanks!
madeofpalk 6y ago
> I live in a big city and most of the feed is highly sexualised, highly political, or highly prank-related. More anecdata: I also live in a big city - London - and I don't see this. I joined TikTok just a few weeks ago and I was surprised at how overwhelmingly positive and fun it all is.
johnchristopher 6y ago
> People say things like this in an attempt at shaming the original poster but one thing not considered is the location of the person using TikTok. That's a good point. I was wondering about the initial seed of the feed. It wasn't my intention to shame though. Until tiktok has something like channels or theme/tag subscription it will remain a problem.

dsrees 6y ago

Not a tiktok user, but I know instagram also fills your explore feed with the content that your friends like. So even if you're tailoring your likes to appropriate posts, your friends may not be.

rchaud 6y ago
That may just be the initial period after a user has signed up and hasn't engaged with enough content for IG to show anything under "Discover". They may use friends' preferences as a placeholder. I know for a fact that what's on my Discover feed (surrealist art, UX/UI stuff, Newfie dog videos) is unique to me.

dilap 6y ago

I don't think likes are actually a big signal, it's mostly based on watch time in my experience.

sandworm101 6y ago

>> one thing not considered is the location of the person using TikTok. I run into this daily. I'm in the military and so my internet connection at work is mingled with a thousand other military people. Ok, it is accurate to say we are predominantly male and younger, but every time I see an ad does it have to an an anime character? Some of us recently gathered to watch the DC riot footage on youtube. The footage started with a non-skippable ad for some pervy anime game. Try holding a strait face in front of the general as a busty cartoon character in a negligee is bouncing up and down on a ten-foot screen.

johnchristopher 6y ago
I don't know, there's something reaaaaally dystopian and weird and fun but concerning about the chain of events that led to that situation. I personally use ublock to correct in real time my world lenses.
exhilaration 6y ago
Try holding a strait face in front of the general as a busty cartoon character in a negligee is bouncing up and down on a ten-foot screen. Classic! I love real world tidbits like this. I would suggest in the future use youtube-dl https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html to download the video to your machine to avoid situations like this.
- sandworm101 6y ago
  There are all sort of ways to do this, but they are difficult in the military context. We gathered in one room because youtube/facebook is blocked on our normal office machines. This was an unrestricted podium computer used for totally unclassified stuff like streaming live news feeds. Like most corporate networks, we aren't allowed to just install software, even simple browser extensions have to go through an approval process.
  - johnchristopher 6y ago
    Can you talk a bit about the ambiance and the reactions in the room as the events unfolded ? If you can, that is.
    - sandworm101 6y ago
      There was no reaction. This is normal. The unfiltered internet is full of inappropriately sexual ads.
      - johnchristopher 6y ago

judge2020 6y ago

Note that you can also hold on the video then click ‘not interested’.

neilsense 6y ago
I hadn't found this piece of UI yet, will try and do that too, thanks!

madeofpalk 6y ago

> I live in a big city and most of the feed is highly sexualised, highly political, or highly prank-related. More anecdata: I also live in a big city - London - and I don't see this. I joined TikTok just a few weeks ago and I was surprised at how overwhelmingly positive and fun it all is.

johnchristopher 6y ago

> People say things like this in an attempt at shaming the original poster but one thing not considered is the location of the person using TikTok. That's a good point. I was wondering about the initial seed of the feed. It wasn't my intention to shame though. Until tiktok has something like channels or theme/tag subscription it will remain a problem.