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Re:I Trained My TikTok by ZephyrBlu on Sunday May 15, 2022 @03:22AM (#31385877)
> You can typically tell within the first 5 seconds whether the video is for you

You most definitely can't. The vast majority of TikTok's are extremely clickbait-y and entice you to watch till the end without you knowing if there will be a payoff.

When I first started using TikTok I felt like I was constantly getting scammed of my time.

I think TikTok is the worst social media platform. It's extremely easy to waste a large amount of time on it and come away with nothing.

Re:I Trained My TikTok by xmprt on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:13PM (#31391187)
> The vast majority of TikTok's are extremely clickbait-y and entice you to watch till the end without you knowing if there will be a payoff

TikTok added a progress bar so you can skip to the end in those cases and save yourself the time now.

Or, you can just scroll past those videos. Again, the reason they're clickbaity is because your brain thinks there's going to be a payoff, but if you train you brain to instantly scroll past those videos then you'll also train the algorithm to show less of those kinds of videos.