Bean soup theory: not everything online is about you, but commenting like it should be just makes it worse. Someone posts a visa guide for remote workers. You comment: "What about people without remote income?" Someone posts about moving to Portugal. You comment: "What about people who can't afford Portugal?" Someone posts about traveling with kids. You comment: "What about people without kids?" Bean soup theory says: if you comment on a bean soup recipe saying "I don't like beans," you're not getting recipes without beans. You're getting more bean soup. Because you engaged with bean soup. The algorithm doesn't care that you DON'T want it. It only knows you interacted with it. Not everything is for you. And that's fine. Scroll past content that isn't relevant instead of commenting to announce it's not relevant. Because all you're doing is training your algorithm to show you more irrelevant content. Link in bio when you're ready to curate your feed intelligently. 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive
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Have you ever heard of the bean soup theory? I just heard about this. Someone commented on my post saying that they were going to bean soup theory my post and I had to go Google what that meant. The bean soup theory is the idea that someone could post a recipe online for bean soup and the first comment on that recipe is going to be, well, what if I don't like beans? Because everybody feels that anything that they are shown online has to be about them and they make the post about them. In reality, we know that if we see something that doesn't apply to us, we can just ignore it. Like if you see a banner for guitar lessons and you don't want guitar lessons, you just ignore that message because it's not for you. But online, we feel the need to comment on things that are not for us. And this plays out on my page when I talk about any specific topic, people wonder, well, why aren't you talking about this topic? Well, I did talk about that topic on another video. People will say, well, why can't you do a video about somewhere where if I earn more money or what you can't do a video where if I earn less money or you can't do a video if I'm a black person or if I'm a lesbian or if I'm retired or if I only speak English, I've done videos on all of those places, countries that you can move if any of those things apply to you. But they're all separate, but nobody sees all of the content. So they feel the need to comment on whatever post comes in front of them to ask about themselves. And that is the bean soup theory. This will come up over and over where something will be shown to you that doesn't apply to you and you'll comment on it. But here's what happens. When you comment on something that has nothing to do with you, all of a sudden you get shown more of that. More of that content because the algorithm doesn't know that you're commenting on something that has nothing to do with you. So a better way to approach your life online is to not comment on the things that have nothing to do with you. Don't bean soup theory every single post where you think that it has to apply to you. It doesn't. Find the post that does apply to you and comment on that because then you will get more of that kind of content. The next time you see a post for me that doesn't apply to you and you think, gosh, I wish you did a video that had to do with me. D and me, I probably do have a video that has something to do with you and I can just tag you in that video instead of commenting on the video that is going to feed you more content that has nothing to do with you. I hope that helps.
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