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erica
@heavygweit
one of my videos on tiktok recently got picked up by the algo and now I’ve gained “a lot” of followers from it even tho it’s not the type of content I usually post and now I feel obligated to post that content which has made me not post anything in the past couple weeks where the video has been flying with views I don’t feel that obligation here though, and I wonder if the main difference is that I know people here in real life? So I know that (some of) my followers here know me as the multifaceted human I am? might research this a bit more to figure out how to make folks more comfortable posting about multiple topics and content types in /uno
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matt 💭
@matthewmorek
this does sound like a self-serving bias. a similar issue was observed on YouTube with Nikocado Avocado, who filmed himself binge eating, and others making different viral video types Nikocado continued this practice for years, possibly under the effect of subconscious pressure to perform for the audience in order to retain or increase his perceived social status (watches/subscribers) generated by the earlier videos, obviously ignoring the risks this type of behavior is normally associated with “victim of your own success” seems to be a fitting summary here
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erica
@heavygweit
self serving bias is more about how we attribute our successes and failures - idk if Niko leaning into that type of content was him thinking “my success is because of who I am/my skills and efforts ” I think it was more about “I have gained an audience from this type of content and they are encouraging/peer pressuring me to continue. external expectations essentially can’t negate the power of peer pressure, especially when it’s thousands of people :/ he is 1000% a victim of his own success, just not sure he attributes that success to himself only
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