How do you use these short video services? Are you searching for content then watching, or just "doom scrolling" while on the toilet? Searching then watching i

How do you use these short video services? Are you searching for content then watching, or just "doom scrolling" while on the toilet? Searching then watching is effectively realigning the feed to your latest and most engaged preferences. Doom scrolling will get worse and worse as time goes on - it appears entirely unavoidable. They pick up on "positive" interaction signals such as slowing down while scrolling past a video, scrolling back to a video, letting it play more than once, even downvoting can be a sign of engagement and a catalyst for more of the same... You are right - the algorithm doesn't care if the world burns... it just wants to maximize engagement. That, for most of the human population, means stuff that gets immediate reactions. Unfortunately that often means outrageous material.