I'm sorry to say that your comment is the type of comment I'd typically downvote, but there's something about it that I think is worth discussing.

The user is complaining that he cannot get rid of the half-naked young girls dancing no matter how hard he tries. And yet, your reply is to accuse them of it being somehow their fault? If this is not Thoughtcrime, I don't know what it is.

For the record, I have heard his complaint before. I assume it's the default algorithm response when it can't figure you out.

It's very easy to not get these on TikTok by simply skipping past them a few times.

It's also very easy for them to become your whole feed if you happen to watch all of them.

I don't think I was saying that it was their fault, I'm just saying that _if_ tiktok eg analyses something subtle, like how hesitantly the user is swiping away a video, the algorithm might expose the subconscious desire to look at scantily clad ladies.

Edit: I have absolutely no insight on what metrics are being used, I'm just making it up.

I did not say extensively; I used it for a week now to see what the fuss is about and got, at first time opening this app, these videos. Not sure how that analysed my behaviour of ‘opening the app’.

Then I followed a bunch of guys in true crime and made sure to swipe other videos away as fast as I could and it got less but i still get them. Probably if you use it for a long time; it might be more tailored to me but the content, even the good content according to like minded, so far is so bad that I don’t think I will give it that much time.

Well I don't know how it is nowadays because so many creators have flocked there and I could absolutely imagine that thirst traps are so numerous and popular that the algorithm cant do a good job anymore. To be fair I joined more than 3 years ago "to check what my kids was raving about" and remember how I regularly was amazed on what the algorithm dug up for me, funny interesting content from people that seemed genuine. I still get that feeling but maybe not as much. And I never had any issues of watching too much either. It's just my kind of social media.

But I also have a couple of times where I fucked up the algo by liking the wrong video and having to mindfully steer it back on track again. So it's not magic, ofc.