Algorithm Training Log (Tiktok)

Day 1, 9/8/2026

Chosen Topic: Zenless Zone Zero

First 10 items were

• White guys walking past black guys based on the decade (a video with filters on the cameras showing how a white guy supposedly acts when walking past a black guy)

• Dog at a dance party (exactly what it says)

• Me after saying a slur I'm ALLOWED to say in front of somebody who isn't aware (a skit about the title)

• I tested a mosquito under water and sunlight (guy puts a mosquito under a cup and does what the title says)

• Footage of crazy driving during a police chase (exactly what it says)

• How it deadass feels when you die in a roblox game and you spend the last of your robux to be revived just to get killed again (scene out of Angry Birds)

• What the class is doing over a single jolly roger (caption over somebody playing a free-to-join online game)

• Excerpt from the EDP445 Documentary (a documentary about of youtuber who got outed as a pedophile)

• Trash-talking on Fortnite (an online game)

• Popular girl humor vs popular boy humor (skit about how high schoolers of different genders make jokes)

None were related to the topic I chose.

Training Time: 10 mins

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Day 5, 9/12/2026

Chosen Topic: Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ)

First 10 items on feed were:

• Quro (a character from ZZZ, Yuzuha, acting through a voiceover while playing Impossible Quiz) related to topic

• Royale High Kawaii Dance x Zero Delusion Angel (a group of ZZZ characters dancing to the eponymous song) related to topic

• Jane's new cat (a skit featuring ZZZ characters) related to topic

• Void shopping (ZZZ character models in Gmod, a popular blender) related to topic

• A little late with this trend (pictures of a character from Honkai Star Rail, made by the same company as ZZZ) semi related? I'll put this as not related

• (Title was in Russian) (Minecraft gameplay) not related to topic

• ZZZero Familia (multiple ZZZ character models dancing) related to topic

• the greatest pull in history (ZZZ gameplay footage of somebody pulling a rare character on the Gacha) related to topic

• That square attack (ZZZ gameplay with the caption, "Me trying to play Remielle on ZZZ and I keep accidentally spamming that time stop attack) related to topic

Total Related Items: 8

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Chart of Algorithm Growth

At the very start of the experiment, the feed on my For You page was typical Tik Tok brainrot, just meant to keep you watching and not really caring about the content. When I started searching up videos related to my topic, it took until day 5 for the feed to only show videos relating to that topic, so the algorithm is kind of slow. For some reason, Tik Tok thought I liked crappy live skits regarding the Adams Family and Batman, as well as a guy from the 1920s visiting the future. Although, their creators are also popular on youtube, so mayve it was the most popular topic on the platform at the time and not what it assumed I liked.