Sludge Videos Are Taking over TikTok–and People's Mind

Re:Sludge Videos Are Taking over TikTok–and People's Mind by thih9 on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:23PM (#38943360)

I use tiktok daily or every other day, I can provide some first hand anecdotes.

Dances are funny to me, at least the ones I see, they remind me of memes; it’s about 10% of my feed.

I have no idea what are icebergs (please explain).

Video responses (“duets” / “stitches”) can be funny or informative. Also perhaps 10%.

I‘ve seen “sludge” only in a simpler form (minecraft gameplay and an automated voice reading a reddit post), I saw it maybe 2-3 times total.

My point is just like you can tweak your twitter, reddit, etc experience to show you the content you want and enjoy - you can do the same with tiktok.

Although if you don’t like vertical videos then absolutely skip it.

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Re:Sludge Videos Are Taking over TikTok–and People's Mind by AlexandrB on Thursday January 11, 2024 @08:52AM (#38952154)

My mistake, icebergs are a YouTube phenomenon: https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/kx5sj7/whats_...

I just assumed they came over from TikTok. But as the saying goes: "When you assume you make an ass out of u and me."

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Re:Sludge Videos Are Taking over TikTok–and People's Mind by KingGeedorah on Thursday January 11, 2024 @03:26PM (#38958492)

Do you not like icebergs? I thought they were nice ways to organize information on a topic/community.

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Re:Sludge Videos Are Taking over TikTok–and People's Mind by antifa on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:14AM (#38968149)

Icebergs are great because they go deep and random, but constrained to a very specific topic/subject, where most alternative content is repeatitively shallow or clickbait.

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