So we got a whole AI slop section now? - "Short dramas"

I thought I had until 12am EST 😭

I feel lonely in a way that makes absolutely no sense.

It’s not that I even posted often or had specific mutuals, but it’s like 80% of the world just disappeared. Like, I just got a book off hold at the library and I know ppl on booktok would understand my excitement. Now I don’t know who to share it with now😿

When the US Government knows you've learned too much from TikTok

tiktok ads infecting the app?

is this happening to anyone else where they fall for one of those ads that have the fake slideshow to make you scroll to their site and then scroll for a little and get a pop up saying that you need to verify your age or that youve won something its not just me its my friend too we are both using an iphone and live far from each other i have attached screenshots of what these popups look like and one of these is from my friend you are unable to close out of these popups unless you restart the app

TikToks API is utter garbage and preventing you to be found

tldr; TikTok hides your profile from outside the US when not using the app Most of y'all probably never though of this or even have to care, but since I'm working on a chat overlay with tiktok support this has to be said: the way we can get the chat messages from livestreams, or even the most basic profile info is completely cursed. Since tiktok doesn't even give official endpoint for most things what I had to build is little more than a web scraper, but wait: some features need to be signed, so I have a chrome window open to pretend to be an actual user and reuse the cookies set to sign all other requests... BUT EVEN THAT is not enough, because for some reason, SOME and only some US based users aren't visible from outside of the US AT ALL... So people not using the app may not see your content if they are not US based. Haven't heard anyone talking about this so far, so now you know

Has anyone else’s algorithm been messed up?

Like, seriously. I used to only get stuff for like fandom or animation memes. Really nerdy loser shit. But now I keep getting more and more posts with like… 500k to 1 mil likes. I don’t want to say they’re basic, because I don’t wanna look like that guy, but like… very basic videos, the kind of stuff you’d see if you had just opened an account. I’ve tried everything to get my fyp back to how it used to be, but nothing works. I’ve blocked accounts, said I’m not interested, searched up and liked all the videos that pertain to what I do want to see… nothing. It’s like actually pissing me off I don’t want to seem like a conspiracist, since this is just a tinfoil hat theory, but like. Is it just tiktok trying to show off more marketable accounts? Influencers = money or something Idkkk I’m so annoyed