the comment sorting algo has been sabotaged starting this year. The typical stream looks like:
total stupidity comment (50 likes)
—> 175 replies
rage-bait comment (20 likes)
—> a dozen replies
normal human funny or empathetic or useful comment (15k likes)
: :
etc
On the other hand if the video allows absolutely any possible way to be racist, the stupid comment first will be a racist comment: Also ratio’d to oblivion in replies.
If however the video is a political one showing trump or the right wing in a bad light, losing a debate, being evil, or sounding stupid, the first comment will be:
“Thank god for Trump”, or, “(right wing person) totally destroyed that liberal”, or, something similar from topsy turvy land.
if the video is science, the top comment will doubt the video, say it is faked, ot just basically be anti-science.
It is really rare tiktok ranks most liked comments first anymore.
At least thats how they are for me.
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