Wjy is the algorithm being so aggressive?

In all my years on tiktok I have never had an issue woth my fyp. I get animations, comics, memes, the usual. But likely after I like one video about something it will be there for the next videos. Now it's just being very political. I liked one video. Only one about something political and it won't stop popping up. I support it, but I dont want to see it every other video? I want my old fyp back. I don't understand why it's being so aggressive. I'm going to reset but I was just curious if this is happening to anyone else.

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Independent-Road841810 months ago1

All algorithms create models for you individually.

Their job is to predict behavior and these models compete with one another and the one that is most accurate most often is the one that is typically optimized.

Their secondary goals are at times to increase engagement via comments, increase buying patterns, increase the time you are on the app to increase ad revenue, increase engagement via likes, etc. depending on what benefits the platform most at a given time or in the long run.

The easiest way to predict behavior is to influence it.

The easiest way to increase engagement is to show people polarizing content to engage them, get them to voice their opinion, and get them into a tribal mentality.

The most common way to divide people into tribes and pit them against one another is consistently politics.

So basically your feed is being manipulated by an extremely advanced technology to help pad their bottom line.