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Anytime I need to fix something in my house, I research it via Bob Villa or ThisOldHouse and cross-reference TikTok videos to see what people & professionals are actually doing in quick-video form.

I'm not quite sure what your angle is for this example, TikTok clearly serves low-follower & low-view videos in their algorithm. It's probably about every 1 in 8 videos if you scroll on the FYP. Each video is given a 1000-view chance to see if it gets boosted further.

Depending on what you like is what you're served, so if you like Home DIY videos & follow those accounts - you'll be served that. They then mesh in the more popular videos depending on external likes of people you follow, general trending (probably 1 in every 5 videos), and location.

If people are telling me TikTok serves scam, manipulating content... it's because of the videos they liked & people they follow. I doubt their account is dedicated to looking up SDR radios, fixing electronics, and general DIY videos.

It's incredibly easy to test this. There's a rough 4-week learning curve per account created that fine-tunes the content delivered to the user.



so TikTok has scam content and it's serves it because someone accidentally watched a scam video.....seems like phishing with victim blaming haha. TikTok sucks


I've seen this across "XYZ business/investment made me $X amount of money in X time" videos... so yes, if you get into the financial side of TikTok you'll come across these. TikTok sucks because they don't have a moderator staff count of 50,000 employees verifying these claims? How many of these accounts are being created per hour? :) Interesting problem to solve, I guess the only solution is for TikTok to become a ban-brigade like Facebook did, right? Great solution... Hence why Facebook and others are in the hole now.




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