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That’s, like, a normal logical one. It’s actually food, it’s spicy. It makes sense to compete to see who can handle the spicy food. This is independently invented every day.

Stealing faucets from public bathrooms? That’s not a normal logical one. That’s a devious lick, and something invented to be highly memetic and propelled by a highly optimized algorithm that incentivizes recency, novelty, and dopamine hacking. It even effectively had a brand name!

Yeah, no worry about the lithium fires. Fuck those chromebooks.

You didn’t have the same social and monetary incentives TikTok provides.

I don’t remember Friendster causing mayhem like this.

Lemmy seems to not be spreading challenges either.

You have a point, but TikTok has a unique power in this moment.

And if the students did see it on TikTok, then it’s factual, specific, reporting.

TikTok is at the forefront of designing algorithms that optimize for this sort of situation. Reddit isn’t. YouTube does not appear to be. They have their own issues, but it’s not exactly this sort of optimization.

VRChat is another social network not optimized around incentivizing this mimicking and reposting behavior.

Snapchat is not built around this sort of algorithm either.

Oh? That’s great to hear. That means I’m out of date on that. I have a friend who experienced this once.

Sadly, it’s not uncommon from what I understand.

Ever heard about software devs not being able to work on personal projects because all the code they produce, even off the clock is owned by their employer?

The town square shouldn’t have regional muzzles as a feature.

overseeing product development for Facebook Video

So she’s the one who oversaw the misleading Facebook Video numbers that destroyed or maimed a whole swath of websites?