Or more probably it can be a combination of both (and possibly more) explanations. There is no way to know, all we can do is speculate. But to think that this

Or more probably it can be a combination of both (and possibly more) explanations. There is no way to know, all we can do is speculate. But to think that this is just chaos theory is as naive as to think these behaviours are fully planned. That would mean that tiktok has no business strategy nor preferred outcomes to optimize towards.