TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds
19 hours ago
- #TikTok
- #Algorithm
- #Attention Economy
- TikTok has industrialized human attention, turning culture into a never-ending feedback loop of impulse and machine learning.
- TikTok's algorithm learns instantly from micro-behaviors, making it highly perceptive and capable of quickly adapting to user preferences.
- Traditional media like the printing press and television shaped linear thought and shared cultural moments, while the internet introduced hyperlinked thinking.
- News organizations, education, and entertainment are adapting to the TikTok model, favoring short, visually engaging content designed for virality.
- Cultural consumption on TikTok is a form of algorithmic training, where users teach the platform how to feed them content more efficiently.
- TikTok rewards hyper-specialization, encouraging creators to perfect narrow niches optimized for the algorithm.
- The spread of TikTok-style optimization is setting new standards for digital content worldwide, prioritizing immediate satisfaction and novelty.
- The trade-off of this efficiency is the loss of boredom, incomplete thoughts, and serendipitous discovery.
- Most users are unaware that their scrolling patterns train the algorithm and that their entertainment is optimized for psychological grip over meaning.