I’m more blaming the system than the user. The system is designed to be as addicting as possible. Literally a century of addiction research into drugs and gambling, all used to squeeze every drop of engagement from the user
See, White Rectangle, you swipe like this: “oh. oh quite. oh dear. oh no. aw. and how.”
But with Black Rectangle, you swipe like: “yo, hol’ da commentz, Imma bounce your pinky up in this!”
Reels only shows ppl with hella followers and views;, but algorithm is a lot better at showing me my interests (on the feed, if you scroll on any reel it shows irrelevant stuff)
Why would anyone use TikTok or any clone like that to begin with? Do they want their brain to rot?
Anything to get that dopamine drip from the Black Rectangle
You say on another dopamine drop website
Oh i know
I’m more blaming the system than the user. The system is designed to be as addicting as possible. Literally a century of addiction research into drugs and gambling, all used to squeeze every drop of engagement from the user
To a point. At least we’re reading and using our brains more on these text-based sites!
See, White Rectangle, you swipe like this: “oh. oh quite. oh dear. oh no. aw. and how.”
But with Black Rectangle, you swipe like: “yo, hol’ da commentz, Imma bounce your pinky up in this!”
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Back before the alogorithm became what it is today, it was pretty good, I actually saw stuff I was interested in from small creators
Reels only shows ppl with hella followers and views;, but algorithm is a lot better at showing me my interests (on the feed, if you scroll on any reel it shows irrelevant stuff)