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Just someone explain to me why people are doing totally insane things in the videos like spilling 50-50 liters of ketchup and mayo on the cupboard and then spri

Just someone explain to me why people are doing totally insane things in the videos like spilling 50-50 liters of ketchup and mayo on the cupboard and then sprinkle it with chocolate flakes? Or melting 10 kgs of butter to cook a steak? Or putting a glass of Nutella in a mortar with the glass in it too and mix it? Same insanity happening around youtube shorts. Are those view counts mean that much to people? btw the algo shows me the same videos even after one week. very little variation going on, it's a bit like yt that force feeds me things and doesn't want me to explore what's on the menu.

bamboozled 4y ago
The more I read about TikTok, the happier I am I deleted it from my phone. I'd like to get rid of Instagram too but I'm locked in as people communicate with me via messages.
- navanchauhan 4y ago
  Have you thought about hosting a Matrix-Instagram bridge? I use all of Beeper’s open source bridges to host them myself because I never got off the waitlist
  - bamboozled 4y ago
    No but I will, thanks
akomtu 4y ago
Disturbing content attracts attention, and that's the most disturbing content the platform allows. Users are addicted to disturbing "content", the "content creators" manufacture the substance, the platforms stuff it with ads, advertisers produce the ads poison to make end users buy things they dont need.
- lofaszvanitt 4y ago
  How wonderful...
grecy 4y ago
Anyone on YouTube getting hundreds of thousands of views are making waaay more money from the views than anything they destroy filming it. I hung out with a guy who would do donuts offroad in a brand new Ferrari he just bought because it got millions of views. The damage to the Ferrari was a tiny fraction of the money he made from that video...
vanjajaja1 4y ago
The algorithm observes what you pay attention to. You might get stuck in areas for a while, but the faster you swipe away on a type of video the faster you get away from that area. I've spent a lot of time on tiktok, never got stuck in anything involving 50 liters of ketchup. I do have the occasional video of very beautiful cooking preparation.
- philliphaydon 4y ago
  > I've spent a lot of time on tiktok, never got stuck in anything involving 50 liters of ketchup. I do have the occasional video of very beautiful cooking preparation. There’s this weird trend on Facebook/Instagram reels at the moment where people are cooking cheese pasta by putting a block of cheese in a pan, with pasta, dumping a ton of cheese, cheese, stock, spices, cheese, then baking it, and then mixing it together. It looks disgusting…
minikomi 4y ago
content homie
leonhard 4y ago
I was wondering that as well and recently came across this long article in the Economist [0] which goes quite into depth how precisely engineered those videos are to capture attention [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20221109233539/https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/07/28/hocus-focus-how-magicians-made-a-fortune-on-facebook https://web.archive.org/web/20221109233539/https://www.econo...
- lofaszvanitt 4y ago
  It would be great to surf inside other people's minds who consume these videos.
- ljf 4y ago
  That really is fascinating and well worth a read. The sums of money are amazing, love the network that builds up to produce these.
pvaldes 4y ago
Companies are probably promoting stunts that would encourage young naive people to buy their products in mass for dubious recipes and experiences

bamboozled 4y ago

The more I read about TikTok, the happier I am I deleted it from my phone. I'd like to get rid of Instagram too but I'm locked in as people communicate with me via messages.

navanchauhan 4y ago
Have you thought about hosting a Matrix-Instagram bridge? I use all of Beeper’s open source bridges to host them myself because I never got off the waitlist
- bamboozled 4y ago
  No but I will, thanks

akomtu 4y ago

Disturbing content attracts attention, and that's the most disturbing content the platform allows. Users are addicted to disturbing "content", the "content creators" manufacture the substance, the platforms stuff it with ads, advertisers produce the ads poison to make end users buy things they dont need.

lofaszvanitt 4y ago
How wonderful...

grecy 4y ago

Anyone on YouTube getting hundreds of thousands of views are making waaay more money from the views than anything they destroy filming it. I hung out with a guy who would do donuts offroad in a brand new Ferrari he just bought because it got millions of views. The damage to the Ferrari was a tiny fraction of the money he made from that video...

vanjajaja1 4y ago

The algorithm observes what you pay attention to. You might get stuck in areas for a while, but the faster you swipe away on a type of video the faster you get away from that area. I've spent a lot of time on tiktok, never got stuck in anything involving 50 liters of ketchup. I do have the occasional video of very beautiful cooking preparation.

philliphaydon 4y ago
> I've spent a lot of time on tiktok, never got stuck in anything involving 50 liters of ketchup. I do have the occasional video of very beautiful cooking preparation. There’s this weird trend on Facebook/Instagram reels at the moment where people are cooking cheese pasta by putting a block of cheese in a pan, with pasta, dumping a ton of cheese, cheese, stock, spices, cheese, then baking it, and then mixing it together. It looks disgusting…

minikomi 4y ago

content homie

leonhard 4y ago

I was wondering that as well and recently came across this long article in the Economist [0] which goes quite into depth how precisely engineered those videos are to capture attention [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20221109233539/https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/07/28/hocus-focus-how-magicians-made-a-fortune-on-facebook https://web.archive.org/web/20221109233539/https://www.econo...

lofaszvanitt 4y ago
It would be great to surf inside other people's minds who consume these videos.
ljf 4y ago
That really is fascinating and well worth a read. The sums of money are amazing, love the network that builds up to produce these.

pvaldes 4y ago

Companies are probably promoting stunts that would encourage young naive people to buy their products in mass for dubious recipes and experiences