> the TikTok Algorithm Knew My Sexuality Better Than I Did,” reads one in a series of headlines about people marveling at the app’s X-ray of their inner lives.

> the TikTok Algorithm Knew My Sexuality Better Than I Did,” reads one in a series of headlines about people marveling at the app’s X-ray of their inner lives. I think its disingenuous to describe it like that. The concept is so simple that it’s absolutely mundane. The app isn’t X-raying your life. It’s just measuring how long you look at a video, and if you press like or comment. It’s brain dead simple, and the only reason so many are astonished by it is because they assume that spending 20 min looking at half naked people of one or the other gender won’t affect the suggestions “because I didn’t press like or comment” but obviously it can still tell that after being shown the same content for 20 min straight, your still not scrolling by, and will keep suggesting it to you because of that.