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Omg, this is amazing. I just got completely engrossed in a John Stewart interview of Conan from like, '94. One thing I realized about TikTok is how much it tap
by gdubs 3y ago
Omg, this is amazing. I just got completely engrossed in a John Stewart interview of Conan from like, '94.
One thing I realized about TikTok is how much it taps into the channel-flipping mechanism. It's basically what I would do as a kid rotating the dial, giving each beat about a second or two before flipping to the next.
The biggest difference is that today, it never comes back around the dial - the dial is practically infinite.
- rudyfink 3y ago>The biggest difference is that today, it never comes back around the dial - the dial is practically infinite. And the TV analyzes your dial-flipping to determine what channel to change you to / generates a channel you are more likely to stay on.
- mnd999 3y agoHeh, heh, this sux change it.
- jvm___ 3y agoIs hackernews on of the last sites where the TV doesn't analyze your preferences and generates a new front-page based on what it thinks will engage you the most?
- joahua 3y agoTo be fair TV ratings did this, just on a very slow inference cycle!
- Sakos 3y agoTV ratings did this as an aggregate of estimated viewer preferences. Doing that immediately on an individual level is wholly different.
- dvngnt_ 3y agoi've actually noticed that tiktok is good sending me back to creators if there's an update to something that went viral. or there are times where i'll get a clip from one angle then an hour later i get another video from a different perspective
- Topgamer7 3y agoI laugh-cringed at the "Operation Pedophile Not" skit from SNL in 1994.
- Sakos 3y agoI have an archive of Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show from 1999 to 2015. It's over 3000 episodes and it's such a trip putting that on shuffle and seeing what the topic was on any particular day.
- fzzzy 3y agoI'd love a Craig Kilborne archive...