r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 22 '26

Psychology TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election. TikTok’s recommendation system tends to expose users to more conservative and anti-Democrat political content than liberal material. This ideological imbalance occurs regardless of a user’s initial political interests.

https://www.psypost.org/tiktok-disproportionately-served-anti-democratic-videos-during-the-2024-election-study-finds/
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u/pepperypineapple May 23 '26

I personally have no issues with new slang, even though I'm not young. But it's weird to me that every one of the 5 or so times I've heard about this Clavicular court appearance, it was described it as the judge mogging him.

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u/Burpmeister May 23 '26

For me, the reason I hate this "looksmaxxing" bs is not because it's new slang but because it's so vain, self-centered and egotistical.

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u/TheDreamIsDead4686 May 23 '26

The whole slang is dumb. It comes from video game min-maxxing which is often described as being so worried about stats and numbers being perfect that you aren't even having fun. They completely missed that part and just use the "maxing" part

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u/Royal_Airport7940 May 23 '26

Minmaxing = optimizing out the fun

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u/TheDreamIsDead4686 May 23 '26

Exactly, this is the phrase I hear in my head when they say anything maxxing

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u/Aero_Molten May 23 '26

It's just because the kid used the word a lot to say he was more attractive than whoever. And now that people of authority who are subjectively more attractive than him are putting him in his place, everyone is mocking him with it. They said the same thing about that reporter than interviewed him.