[akomtu]

Once you pause and think what gambling is - the disconnect between your actions and results, when you pull a lever and get a random outcome - you'll realise that a good deal of the big tech is about gambling. When you scroll to see random videos chosen by an algorithm - that's gambling. Sometimes you "win" a dopamine spike and see something interesting, but most of the time you see junk and your emotions go negative.

[fragmede]

We can say TikTok/Reels/Shorts is a bad thing without trying to shoehorn it into the definition of a existing bad thing.