There's a classical conditioning loop where you see an attractive woman dancing to a song, which makes you subconsciously start to like the song, then you like videos with that song... it's the combined power of earworms and arousal. If they somehow make it taste like cheesecake we will have achieved full wireheading.

Smell-o-vision. The next revolution in smartphone technology!

I'm on the younger side, it's very addictive. People love to come up with wild theories for why the app blew up, but I think it's just pure algorithmically curated fun.

Think of it this way - how long can this network exist without having to deal with political speech ?

And the moment people figure out how to optimize for dispersion through the tik too algo, what would be the result ?

I'm an adult and normally don't get got by these types of apps but I found myself doing the same. I had to uninstall.