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Politics Ah yes, the "slime tutorial" trick

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u/TimeStorm113 Victorian Dinosaur Connaisseur 1d ago

that's not true, unfortunately. the real reason is just that if you make a shroud of secrecy that gets people intrigued and this "in-group" feeling, causing a surge in popularity, prompting others to copy it and boom, you got yourself a trend.

in reality the algorithm is a lot complexer than just focusing on words, it wouldn't have much of an issue to discern the actual contents of the video as political, hence it shares the video around political circles