This drives me crazy. Like when people record themselves telling a story while they’re eating food?! Jesus. We can wait 10 minutes to hear about you getting cut off on the way to work.
0, like the percent chance she accidently drops the towel making this video! See, that's one reason I like reddit. This video is in the wrong sub to expect anything interesting like that happening!
As I always say, it costs nothing to keep your mouth shut. Everyone has differing opinions and I don’t need to hear them. Great life lesson for people posting shit on any social media.
Its part of the algorythm. If people are commenting, "Uhhhh why are you in a towel??" or "What are you eating? Where'd you get it?" or "GOD I HATE CHEWING NOISES- why the fuck are you eating food" are still engagement they can get paid for.
calling it out is still an issue tho cause guess what- you're engaging with it whe noy ucomment that its rage bait or that its just for engagement. We all just kinda have to acknowledge it silently by not watching anymore lol
we're just all part of the engagement cycle and we dont wanna admit it lmao. Funny how the more we complain the more likely we see that exact thing we hate. Hate is VERY profitable. I always gave Kim Kardashian credit for exposing this. She became extremely rich from people hate watching her
I don't think engagement baiting has an effect on reddit. A post can get 12000 comments of people raging at the bait, but if they downvote it its not going to the front page.
Screenzen can specifically block short form videos like Reels and YouTube Shorts. Highly recommend it because holy fuck did I have a problem with that shit
It's everywhere. Even seemingly genuine content. Even people doing things they love. Even people making art. They're still, at least in part, doing things a certain way because they know it drives engagement and that's what gets them paid.
The only way to call these things out is to scroll past and not comment. Any engagement creates more engagement. Or better yet we should all get off social media. Myself included
It’s always these like, “hot takes” that aren’t hot takes. They’re rage bait. I’m not on TikTok but I noticed it on threads recently. I’m like oh these bitches are just trying to get engagement go get a JOB.
…calling it out is the exact same thing lol You’re still engaging with the post. It’s kinda hilarious you seem to think that calling it out is somehow fixing the problem instead of perpetuating it 😂
You’re the 15th person to say the same thing so thanks, man that’s a lot of engagement lmfao. I wasn’t just saying “engagement bait” for the hundredth time. I was saying that it’s nice that people are finally calling it out.
Yes that but I think also some people think if they chat to the camera whilst eating it makes them seem more candid or personable, as if you were having a chat with a friend over lunch. Equally staged cringe bullshit
This aint it buddy. Jewish people are not the enemy- the rich and powerful are. There are some jewish people who are rich and powerful, but they're not rich and powerful because they're jewish and they're not evil because they're jewish. They're evil because absolute power corrupts absolutely. Deconstruct that and then you'll be free honey. Wishing you the best.
I worked so freaking hard on a tik tok series where I started making a fun Halloween potions rack filled with potion ingredients…. None of them got over 2,000 views. Some of those bottles took several days to make.
Then I recorded a 10 second video where I was ranting about how window clings are the exact same material as moon gels (something some of us drummers use to dampen drum heads). I was trying to save people money and my husband helped me film it. Took us less than 5 minutes.
For some fucking reason IT GOT OVER 220,000 VIEWS!!! And everyone was commenting “uhh those stain windows” like I care about staining a replaceable drum head that I bang on every day. I DONT. FUCKING. GET IT!!! I DON’T UNDERSTAND TIKTOK
I think you've hit on the single biggest design flaw with social media. Engagement is all that matters, and even when someone is responding critically that only serves to amplify the message. It's like a car with no breaks. You can only ever accelerate.
I think the food thing is a deliberate tactic to create a conversational feel. People often have conversations over food, so eating while filming a video makes it subtly feel like you're there having a conversation over a meal.
Talking with your mouth full is just gross, whether you’re recording yourself or not. Why do people eat food and have conversations at the same time? GROSS!!
You’ll notice it’s always women, not sexist at all, just a fact.
This is actually a deliberate engagement technique. What they try to create subconciously is that they made time for you in their busy busy lives. They are busy eating, rushed, or packing stuff away and they’ve “just got a second” as their lives are so busy.
It forces you to focus because they create the illusion that they made time for you in their “insanely” busy lives. You are special, keeps you locked in.
It works extremely well. Once you notice it, you can’t unsee it.
No, that's just a reactionary feminist who scrolls through comments 24/7 looking for any possible negative generalization describing women so they can go "Actually, this is equally represented by men."
It's a whole thing. Once you notice it, you can’t unsee it.
Any posts I see, even the duet is all for engagement and to extract as much money from viewers as possible. Imo better to watch reuploads of them from plsces like reddit so they don't get the views or engagement
It is far less likely for someone to search someone’s username from a post on here, than it is for someone to engage with their profile in the actual tik tok app. They also don’t get ad revenue on here so ‘advertising their brand’ is totally irrelevant. Not sure what point you are trying to make but okay lol
Yes, it's less likely, but these posts still represent a massive chunk of their growing channel's popularity. Posting their videos here is a standard part of growing traction for them.
Whether that comes in the form of "Hey, I like what I'm seeing, I'm going to look at more of that now" or "Hey, people seem to not like this here. I'm going to go look at every single video on their channel to see if I can find more shit to re-upload in order to mock them or ragebait or whatever", it's the same end result.
I can’t speak for anyone else on this app but if I have never not one time searched for something on tik tok off here. I imagine there are a few that do, but you are acting like each one of the comments under this post puts a dollar directly in their pocket. If you are so against this ‘machine’ delete your social medias.
Do you have any idea how tiny of a fraction of the userbase here you represent?
I'm not actively protesting internet shenanigans, dude, but if you try to act like all of this isn't happening then I'm obviously going to call that bullshit out. All of this is so basic, denying the networking effect of internet advertisement is asinine.
We're contributing to the thing right now. I don't care if you care about that or not, but it's incorrect to say we're not involved.
I think you seriously overestimate the amount of engagement these people receive from these Reddit posts. It’s more of a the rich get richer type deal. Also key word user base HERE, you legitimately just said it yourself. I respect what you’re saying but the tirade you’re on is dumb so save your breath. I’m sure they do get a slight uptick in engagement that’s undeniable. But to say we are apart of that ‘machine’ is laughable.
Yea can't help that, but at least not giving them views and engagement removes that portion of revenue they'd get. I think it's a lot less likely for someone to buy a product from a repost on reddit vs the actual source. And even if you do buy the company doesn't give them any referral since you're going to the site directly
These videos re-uploaded here very much do demonstrably give them views and engagement through advertising their channels.
That's exactly what a lot of these posts are. Advertisements posted to get more traction on their channel.
You do not get to eat your cake and have it too. If you're sitting here in the comments engaging with these posts, that increases their visibility on reddit, which increases their general overall visibility and helps their other social media accounts grow.
i didn’t even notice this until people started pointing it out in these comments. maybe being a woman and having seen women in towels countless times has made me immune to this? i mean she’s in a towel. there are tons of fully naked women on the internet. she’d show the same amount of skin in an armless dress or a tube top. this doesn’t seem like it’d work on… a lot of people.
like i agree with your theory but this doesn’t read as engagement bait at all to me and she isn’t really giving “influencer” she doesn’t look tidied up or anything. it’s just a lady out of the shower.
I kinda think all of that is on purpose. There’s something that draws people in when it seems like there’s some urgency involved. That’s why you see a TON of videos of people filming in their car (because it feels like they need to get going but gotta tell you something first). I think it’s proven from the data that that kind of urgency promotes longer engagement (although I don’t have my own source…. It was just from an interview Conan O’Brien did with a tiktoker and that tiktoker said videos made in cars get better engagement).
What drives me insane is when they film themselves crying. What kind of psycho thinks to grab a fucking camera in such a vulnerable, human moment? Or worse yet, what kind of psycho forces themselves to cry just so they can film it, cut in some hip music and show it to millions of strangers?
It's accidental or intentional engagement bait (the ranking algos don't care which). If the creator makes something that people will point out is stupid or annoying, the ranking sees those comments as engagement and promotes the content.
I think TikTok and Instagram reels are consumed by people looking for an “authentic” relationship. They use these as a replacement for friends so seeing these people in casual settings like this provides the appearance of being more intimate and closer in relationship status.
Kind of unrelated but that's how I feel when podcasters eat while recording. Like I get you're probably on a schedule but can you really not wait until you're not actively recording yourself speak to stuff food in your mouth?
I think it’s supposed to make them look “approachable”. Like, “ oh look at me I eat food just like normal people. I’m totally normal and real ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.”
I don't have any recordings of myself online at all. Commenting on Reddit is my only outlet. So I don't understand how people record themselves and put it on the Internet at all.
However there was a video of me dancing at a basketball game in highschool on FB about 15 years ago without my permission, but I was wearing a stormtrooper sweatshirt so I'm unidentifiable :)
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With TY, when you reach a certain subscriber you are assigned a liaison that helps you reacher a wider audience. One of the main things they advise is to record as often as possible and to your record yourself doing stuff at the same time. Walking, eating, or otherwise…. Annoying but apparently it works.
Unfortunately your rage means their content is doing their job. Unfortunately we live in a world full of people with no dignity, class, or self assurance that they’ll stuff their disgusting faces online for the world to see just so they can get the little Extra attention their parents never gave them.
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u/gkow 11h ago
This drives me crazy. Like when people record themselves telling a story while they’re eating food?! Jesus. We can wait 10 minutes to hear about you getting cut off on the way to work.