Leave your bubble occasionally and you may find that many of the creatives who might have populated Geocities or Usenet — were they born 20 years earlier — are carving out niche audiences with 300 views on TikTok.
We are talking about an app made in one of the most surveillance states of the world, heavily moderated to that where if you don't look pretty your binned and making profit off the data you provide.
This is a description of one method of generating an estimate of what it is (a method which itself may be a consequence of western propaganda, but certainly of western culture)...more interesting in my opinion is estimates of methods for accurately determining what it is.