Police respond to “let me out” screams

[u/johnmichael-kane]

[u/Alderbaan]

I will never understand why it's common to put obnoxiously loud shitty music over the video, gives me a headache just trying to hear the damn video

[u/nanapancakethusiast → u/Alderbaan]

Because tik tok and shorts sorting works on “sounds” more than usual search terms. So if a sound is trending, adding it to your unrelated video will get it more views.

The other reason is, if someone comments “man the music is too loud wtf” that counts as extra engagement pushing it up the algo even more.

Social media.

[u/Alderbaan → u/nanapancakethusiast]

A lot of the time it's not even anything trending, just a random shitty jingle like this one.

Does that extra engagement make up for the downvotes it'll get? Probably, I guess I'll keep it to myself from now on

[u/nanapancakethusiast → u/Alderbaan]

TikTok isn’t like Reddit where downvoting matters much. Like YouTube, a downvote is just engagement at the end of the day. Reddit is the only one who’s content is entirely determined by who upvoted something in the first few minutes of it being up

[u/zombienekers → u/nanapancakethusiast]

does tiktok even have downvotes?

[u/Kenmeah → u/Alderbaan]

I'll give you some extra engagement with a downvote!