The First One to Know You’re Gay? Your TikTok Algorithm

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    1. My algo has been convinced that I’m gay, black, Spanish speaking, German speaking, into wood-chopping lesbians (true), and really interested in police body cameras.

      She’s fickle like that.

    2. sereneasmiles on

      Its so funny to me how every now and then I overhear guys talking about how their tiktok algo shows them gay stuff all the time and I’m like…. who’s gonna tell em??

    3. I live in NYC and TikTok algorithm thinks I’m Canadian. I regularly get content specific to Toronto and from news agencies like the CBC. I’ll let y’all know when I get Canadian citizenship and move to Markham.

    4. LeslieKnope4Pawnee on

      My algorithm only shows me cats and gay himbos.

      The allegation that I’m a gay man who spoils my rescue kitty endlessly is 100% accurate.

    5. This has always been the way. Remember when Target was the first to know a teenage girl was pregnant?

    6. burntflowersfallen on

      Mines just edits of CM Punk and Cody Rhodes getting dangerously close to kissing, inescapable yaoi app 😩

    7. gastroerinteritis on

      I’ve curated my social media algorithms to only show me bird content. I use it less and get more pleasure out of it when I do.

    8. I fully admit my TikTok figured out I was bi before I did. 😆 Same with ADHD lmao

    9. ExpensivePeach on

      My feed was showing me that dysautonomia could cause seizures…I started having them about 6 weeks later and was very grateful that I knew what to do and how to react. Very frightening that my heehee-haha meme app could diagnose me more accurately than any doctor I’ve been to tho.

    10. Genuinely tik tok started showing me content related to a couple different chronic illnesses and lo and behold, I was diagnosed with all 3 within the year. Genuinely scary that my algorithm knew before my doctors…

    11. soganomitora on

      I looked up Club Chalemet *once* to figure out who tf everyone was talking about, and now Twitter thinks I should read nothing but Hudson Williams fans and Connor Storrie fans fighting eachother.

      I don’t want any part of that drama, i just wanted the tea! Like you can’t say two stalkers of the same actor had a fistfight in front of his motel and expect me not to be curious.