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teenagers vandalizing open source street maps to include fake bodies of water near their homes so that rare waterbased Pokémon would spawn more often is a particularly important variety of zoomer energy
GPT-2 essay generation is zoomer energy https://twitter.com/michaeltrazzi/status/1251988204582055938?s=21 https://twitter.com/MichaelTrazzi/status/1251988204582055938
zoomer fanbases taking over top10 social app rankings for the sake of a tiktok growth hack is zoomer energy https://twitter.com/HipCityReg/status/1262761690292256769?s=20
Context from the leader, “chunkysdead”
Something under-appreciated about 'digital natives' like zoomers is their instinctive understanding of how easy it is to have outsized effects on systems by cleverly hacking any algorithmic promotion system
Zoomers understand digital flash-mobbing. https://twitter.com/nwilliams030/status/1217316095239081985?s=20
Zoomers understand digital flash-mobbing. https://twitter.com/nwilliams030/status/1217316095239081985?s=20
This has been happening a ton on twitter recently as well,
I've seen at least 10 different #(name)isoverparty hashtags about various stars nationally trending in the last month that have nothing to do with cancel-worthy behavior,
I've seen at least 10 different #(name)isoverparty hashtags about various stars nationally trending in the last month that have nothing to do with cancel-worthy behavior,
It's normally a bunch of stan accounts using the click-baitable nature of hashtags to make someone click into their feed of memes related to that person
Stan accounts have also been using trending hashtag pages to promote their favorite kpop idols since the beginning of time
Stan accounts have also been using trending hashtag pages to promote their favorite kpop idols since the beginning of time
When discussing algorithmic promotion to the average person over 25, there's often some instinctive assumption that content they saw is a direct view of what everyone posted, with no intermediation.
Gen z instinctively understands there's a system to be hacked
Gen z instinctively understands there's a system to be hacked
I've said it before, but this is why I think tiktok is so interesting - much more discussion of the way internal algorithmic systems work than i've seen on any other social media platform https://twitter.com/nwilliams030/status/1212863638211612675?s=20
there have been several iterations of people hacking tiktok systems
one was users realizing that clicking the "share" button on tiktok was the highest indicator that the video was good, meaning they'd serve that video to many more users, so people would click it repeatedly
one was users realizing that clicking the "share" button on tiktok was the highest indicator that the video was good, meaning they'd serve that video to many more users, so people would click it repeatedly
kids testing targeted ad serving https://twitter.com/nwilliams030/status/1232477819126439941?s=20
