[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.)