If you’re asking whether someone at tiktok HQ saw your success and was green with envy and said “nope, we’re not showing that person’s videos to people anymore” and flipped a switch to hide your videos, then no.
Ah, I see. That I don’t know, I have successfully avoided tiktok like the plague (because I know my brain would just overdose on the dopamine). But I suspect that if that were how they run things, we’d see a lot more complaints like yours. Also, such blunt mechanisms tend to leak and be reported on, especially when a service comes under close scrutiny as tiktok has. So just based on my experience with how the internet works, I doubt it.
If you’re asking whether someone at tiktok HQ saw your success and was green with envy and said “nope, we’re not showing that person’s videos to people anymore” and flipped a switch to hide your videos, then no.
I was asking if, like, TikTok does that just so you get hooked on the dopamine hit and then never does it so you keep always chasing that high.
Ah, I see. That I don’t know, I have successfully avoided tiktok like the plague (because I know my brain would just overdose on the dopamine). But I suspect that if that were how they run things, we’d see a lot more complaints like yours. Also, such blunt mechanisms tend to leak and be reported on, especially when a service comes under close scrutiny as tiktok has. So just based on my experience with how the internet works, I doubt it.