There is something important that I want to say is much more basic going on though with respect to "authenticity": Instagram (which I am going to stare at; I appreciate it isn't YouTube Shorts, but I want to juxtapose how amazing TikTok feels) has--for as long as I can remember--and almost exclusively, recommended accounts that repost content from other accounts; it is like an entire industry of people who scavenge Instagram for photos or memes or comics that match some theme and then repost and aggregate the content for purposes of gaming karma and then claiming to be a way for other accounts to get discovered... I never want to follow accounts of that form. I have spent a lot of time on TikTok over the past year and a half, and I have never even seen an account like that there? It isn't a complex concept to execute--I feel like most of the people who do those aggregator accounts are amateurs--and TikTok is assuredly mature enough to be targeted... I frankly get the impression (which might be wrong? I'd love to know if there is something else going on) that if you try to repost content someone else made, for any reason, that that's both sufficiently against the terms of service and sufficiently against the community norms that you will get reported and quickly removed. Like, I appreciate that "authenticity" also often talks to the premise of "an individual with a camera bearing their soul" as opposed to "a corporation creating high production videos", but Instagram--if you aren't actively coming there to follow specific people (maybe friends off of Facebook) and are instead just trying to explore its world--feels like nothing more than a bunch of "content farming spam", which is about the least authentic arena you could possible cause to exist.