Gm 🌞 just an observation on the subtle workings of TikTok content moderation aka Why We Don’t Talk About Fight Club…

If you hate TikTok just scroll on…

Certain words on TikTok - whether spoken or written in the comments - are almost definitely bot-bait. This is why I very rarely drop any full govt names while speaking - we call em Donny, ‘Lonny, Joey, Benny, Barry, Georgie, Billy, etc - or use initials like Johnny FK. Or in the case of Luigi - calling him Lou. The reason I don’t like attracting bots is bc using the comments they can get me flagged for community violations (ie inciting hateful speech.)

But there are two additional layers of automatic content moderation. The first one is called “folded comments” which is an anti-bullying filter, and the second one is called “filtered comments” and it’s designed to catch bots or people with bot like behavior (aka repeating the same keywords continuously across multiple videos).

So now because the spooks have figured out that they will get flagged for the filtered comments if they directly say the keywords that bait the bots, they’ve taken up playing dumb and saying “can someone spell this out for me” hoping that some unsuspecting chatty know-it-all will put the bait out for them.

Not on my watch, but honestly the strategy is clever. Keep ya head on a swivel, folks, and don’t talk about fight club. Discretion is the better part of valor. Lol.