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I briefly had TikTok.. so much crappy videos about ADHD

You probably engaged positively with some of those videos. The feed tends to give you more of what you engage with.

Mine is full of cats, food, attractive women, and also ADHD content. None of those are remotely surprising to me, except that there's not more ADHD content (though I suppose the feed implicitly is).

I hate this narrative of blaming the user for being served bad content.

It's not "bad" content. It's content you don't want, but which your behavior nonetheless suggests you do. If you're not seeing things you like, search for a hashtag you're interested in.

No, it's objectively bad content. Only due to the way they track and understand user behavior suggests that the content is correct to show to the user. That's not the users fault when they get shown crap stuff

Guess why: https://youtube.com/shorts/rrupUTaCAUY?feature=share

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