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Re:Half a million people watch me study on TikTok by jt2190 on Sunday May 08, 2022 @10:57AM (#31304661)
> half a million people don’t have something better to do than watch someone study

They’re not watching him study, he’s modeling studying behavior and his audience is leveraging that to trigger their own studying. (Mirror neurons are a thing.)

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Re:Half a million people watch me study on TikTok by PartiallyTyped on Sunday May 08, 2022 @12:22PM (#31305458)
Not only that, from sociology we know that it introduces a form of accountability and collective effort mentality.
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Re:Half a million people watch me study on TikTok by jt2190 on Sunday May 08, 2022 @01:21PM (#31306042)
Very interesting! (I was pretty loose with my "mirror neurons" reply, hoping that someone would provide corrections and/or more nuance.)
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