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For a good chunk of the content you see on TikTok, maybe, but not that I see. (I did just see uncovered female hair in one video though, so maybe we have differing standards of "indecent"?)

Nietzsche was prescient about the interwebs: "... if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

Detim to vide fit, fit vide to oso. (while you watch the feed, the feed watches you.)

[smusamashah]

FYI uncovered hair are absolutely not a problem in Pakistan. Just look up for any Pakistani TV show, see the audience or anyone.

I have mostly seen extremely stupid videos on TikTok and get amazed how people make this stuff.

[nullsense]

So that's what Nietzsche was talking about. Good spotting.

[OJFord]

I've never used it - what governs what you see vs. what GP sees, 'following' different people as on Twitter?

[tonyarkles]

This is based on my admittedly little experience with TikTok, but it seems like they do a ton of analytics based on how long you stay on a given video. Pretty sure every action you do plays into The Algorithm.

There’s jokes about there being different TikToks based on this. Like “gay TikTok”, “farmer TikTok”, etc. As a point of reference, TikTok for the occasional time I use it will be a mixture of:

- farming / horses / archery

- construction workers and mechanics either doing really sketchy stuff or providing really useful stuff

- two strippers who tell funny/cringey stories from work (I don’t follow them, they just keep showing up and telling ridiculous stories, which I listen to, which reinforces The Algorithm)

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I hope that first category has plenty of archers on horses shooting at targets on round bales?

Bonus Scyth: https://d30womf5coomej.cloudfront.net/c/d4/0cb93d1b-dc27-43d... (The bow carrier is a thing because stringing a 25 lb bow from the saddle works, but stringing a recurve is not so trivial. She doesn't have a thumb ring, but I don't know if the artist knows any better than I do by whom and when those were used on the steppe.)

[afwe]

If I wanted to see naked women on tiktok, I would not complain about it.

If you make a new profile on tiktok (or just download the app) you will see a few women in borderline pornographic videos. That's all it took for me to remove the app, which means I did not give the app much time to learn about my tastes.

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Maybe because I use tiktok.com? I currently see:

1. bun in a watermelon swing.

2. dogs in headscarves listening to something bollywood-like

3. a train (with unusual horn, or maybe that's just a train-horn sounding soundtrack)

4. someone playing with a horizontally wiping sampler

5. someone pretending to demonstrate internet connectivity in different countries. (if true, albania is worse than turkey?)

of which the only indecency I can think of is "representational art" and I guess people who care about that surf with lynx.

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At a stretch, the best I can do is view #1 and think "My anaconda don't want none / Unless you've got buns, hun." and even that fails due to the singular, not plural, bun.

Incidentally, was it from HN that I learned about the very small-audience potential nightclub use of the International Code of Signals?

Foxtrot: I am disabled; communicate with me. (aka The Sorority Mating Call, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737386 )

Quebec: My vessel is healthy

Tango: I am engaged in pair trawling

One might even imagine conversations, along the lines of Wuthering Heights by semaphore:

beginning of the evening

A) Yankee, Zulu, Kilo: I am dragging my anchor. I require a tug. I wish to communicate with you.

B) November, Xray: Negative. Stop carrying out your intentions and watch for my signals.

end of the evening

B) Papa: All hands report on board. Putting out to sea.

A) Charlie: Affirmative.

at B's apartment

B) Mike Alfa Bravo: I request you to make rendezvous in position indicated.

A) Alfa: Diver down.

B) Golf: I require a pilot.

A) Charlie: Affirmative.

B) Hotel, Sierra: I have a pilot on board. I am operating astern propulsion.

after the walk of shame

A) India Tango, Alfa November: I am on fire. I need a doctor.

Bonus wooden ships: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301933