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Videos with lots of text hijack the algorithm a bit - it counts what proportion of the video is watched when evaluating its effectiveness, and if you put a gian
by cwkoss 3y ago
Videos with lots of text hijack the algorithm a bit - it counts what proportion of the video is watched when evaluating its effectiveness, and if you put a giant wall of text on a 7-sec sound clip, you can get an artificially high watch-through rate with not-particularly-good content.
Text without images in the background seems objectively less attention grabbing, I wouldn't be surprised if most people just keep using captions over video.
- pests 3y agoIve noticed this hijack before. I have to purposefully skip by any text posts now because any interaction just fills my feed with the junk.
- cwkoss 3y agoi think pausing subverts the metrics skew, but yeah, I mostly just skip because it usually isn't worth reading.
- JSavageOne 3y agoIs anything on TikTok worth consuming?
- cwkoss 3y agoYes, its a bit better than any american social media platform. There's still a ton of garbage, but a slightly higher proportion of good content.
- JSavageOne 3y agoWhich platforms are TikTok better than? Because I can't think of any. It's junk food for the brain, and I've heard even teenagers tell me that themselves. I think in the future TikTok will be looked back at not unlike the tobacco industry in the 20th century.
- cwkoss 3y agoReddit, twitter, facebook, instagram. You should actually try tiktok instead of regurgitating the opinions of sinophobic nationalists. The algorithm reflects yourself better than any other app, so whether you get junk is entirely up to what you choose to watch.
- JSavageOne 3y ago> Reddit, twitter, facebook, instagram. Yea I guess we'll have to agree to disagree because I find your statement that TikTok is superior to each of these absurd and comical. Why are you assuming I've never installed and tried TikTok?
- pests 3y agoThe company is worth almost 100 Billion. Maybe?
- JSavageOne 3y agoThe heroin, crystal meth, opioids, and other destructive drugs' markets are also fairly large.
- deprecative 3y agoNo. There is nothing of value on TikTok. People may say otherwise but they use TikTok so their intelligence is minimal.