By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026By offering performers money for media that you "engaged" with, Tiktok offloaded the work of convincing you to conduct your online life in to maximize opportunities to show you an ad onto an army of theater kids who spend every hour god sends figuring out how to keep you looking at Tiktok. 9/ 1122
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026This was hugely successful - so successful, in fact, that Tiktok was able to *cheat*. 10/ 180
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/04/2026It overrides its own guesses about which of its billion cable-access channels you'd stare at the longest with a "heating tool" that lets Tiktok trick some theater kids into thinking that Tiktok was actually more suited to them than other platforms: pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/p... 11/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 172