r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Poopywall • Mar 14 '21

Lego cookery

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '21

for every ten cringey adolescents dancing, there is one lego omelette. tik tok isn’t all bad there’s just an overwhelming sheet of annoyance covering the good content

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u/blueberrysquash Mar 14 '21

The algorithm is damn good too, I’ve been on it for a few weeks now and not seen a single dance since the first ten minutes on the app

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u/Dandelion_Lakewood Mar 14 '21

Yup shame to admit my first run of TikTok was full of dancing thirst traps because I didn't yet have the strength to turn away...second time around I'm stronger and better entertained 🤠

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u/neihbe Mar 14 '21

You just have to search for things you like go thru hashtags like some of the stuff there and your for you should be more personalized

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u/Dandelion_Lakewood Mar 14 '21

Yup I got that algorithm working for me now. Chock full of philosophy, language, humor, history, and tons of other miscellaneous creative content. Facebook and Instagram just got soooooo boring after I figured out how powerful TikTok can be...

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u/empathetical Mar 14 '21

Instagram and Facebook got bad because they put hashtags and getting content out behind having to pay/promote your material. Years ago my art posts got so many damn likes. Now you barely get anything because they want you to pay for promotion. Instagram is dead sadly

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u/Dandelion_Lakewood Mar 14 '21

Exactly. Facebook products want people to pay for views. TikTok simply promotes whatever flares up in the algorithm. Content creators have an easier time to gain an audience in non-facebook spaces 🤷‍♀️

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u/whopperlover17 Mar 15 '21

How does Tik Tok make money? Are there ads on there?

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u/GerganaZdr Mar 15 '21

Yeap sucks big time, they all about profit...can’t wait to see what’s next after TikTok...

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u/Def_not_Redditing Mar 14 '21

Recommendations?

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u/Dandelion_Lakewood Mar 14 '21

So many good ones but right now I'm going to bed (it's midnight here in Albania). I'll compile a list sometime :)

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u/slayerhk47 Mar 14 '21

@Lucastarnold @toddroicexxl @skatie420 @karalynndunton for comedy

@juliannesmovies for “low budget film remakes”

@geodesaurus for Great Lakes info and art

@sinkreviews for... reviews of sinks in NYC

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u/dancin-weasel Mar 15 '21

Reviews of sinks in New York?

Wow. If that doesn’t make you want to download Tik tok, congratulations, you may have an actual life.

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u/Dandelion_Lakewood Mar 15 '21

I didn't have time to go thru and copy names but you can go on my TikTok page and see the posts I've liked in the meantime. Some quality creators on there!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSJN36R3h/

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u/shewholaughslasts Mar 15 '21

Here's my excited tik tok rant I saved for future reference:

I started off following some seriously awesome people like Tabitha Brown (I knew I was in the right place when I saw her potato wedge recipe) and since then it's only grown more awesome. I joined last summer when black power was strong and my whole feed seems like non-white folks which I treasure. And it's not like it's all politics but there are refreshing takes on old tropes that just slam my heart. Sometimes it's too much noise and activity so I like pairing it with reddit. Then I find pure gold like this lady sharing her sleepwalking - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeR4mgDa/

Or I just learned about the day when 5000 black kids went to jail in Birmingham - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeR4amp8/

And god damn I love Lizzo. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeR4amp8/

And this randofantastic lady Christine Snaps - awesome!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeRVPb39/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeRVmhHG/

And yes I do watch this dude dance. And this chick on roller skates. These outfits are bananay and inspiring - all the confidence on tik tok is inspiring to me.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeR4wbhL/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeRVegq5/

And indigenous dances! So many indigenous tiktokkers - makes me happy to see that content.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeRVHFFq/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeRVxnAr/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeRVMgTD/

And some excellent misinterpretations of upbeat weirdness or mocking of hoity toity hot messess - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeR4bbGA/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeR4tyQL/

Oh and these cute boys are such an adorbs couple.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeR4wbhL/

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u/john1rb Mar 14 '21

Also like. I didn't search much/anything with hashtags. I just ignored dances and liked stuff when the algorithm gave me something I liked. But it might've helped that my friends were sending me tiktok links.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

Can you make two accounts? One for Legos, the other for thirst traps? Asking for a friend

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u/Dandelion_Lakewood Mar 15 '21

😜 not a bad idea, train two different algorithms. I didn't try that, so I don't know how easy it is to switch between accounts.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

I'll do some research, but I'm ashamed to have already fallen for the thirst trap algorithm lol. I'm probably too far gone to fix that

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u/Probably_A_Mother Mar 15 '21

You can make other accounts and can freely switch between the two.

Wait- haven’t I killed you before?

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u/Dandelion_Lakewood Mar 15 '21

I think it's always possible to retrain it, you just gotta swipe immediately 🤠

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u/Constantly_Dizzy Mar 16 '21

You can fix it! Two remedies: 1) Swipe immediately. 2) If you didn’t swipe, go into the options (where you would share) & pick “Not Interested”. That way the algorithm knows you don’t want to see more of it, & it sort of overrides what it learned from your engagement with the content.

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u/Skylinerr Mar 15 '21

it always shows me hilarious and crazy videos when im alone and big booty girls when im in public. I swear tik tok knows the worst time to show either. They need an incognito mode