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Well, yes, that's the problem. It's designed by psychology experts to extract as much dopamine as possible from your glands so that you continue using TikTok instead of doing literally anything else with your time, allowing them to expose you to ads and sell fucktons of your data. Algorithms good enough to be addictive ought to be illegal, they're predatory, take advantage of quirks in our brain's reward system, and steal tons of time from our lives we could be using on more fulfilling things.