Saturday. January 25, 2025. These notes should have been published a long time ago. Oh well. Better late than never. To answer myself and my original questioning - it is not random. It obviously was never random. How to get a lot of views on social media is not a matter of luck. It is not like throwing a dice, because each side in a dice should have equal possibility. But in social media we can increase the odds. There is sure some luck involved. It is needed to get the ball rolling. But there are natural patterns involved. I can now identify the patterns that works in my favour, and now I can replicate them for myself. I have changed the odds when tossing that dice. Produce the same result over and over. It was never exact. But it was statistically likely.
There are surely distributions and underlying laws involved, which indicates that results online are not random. Many people has talked about this, and it is glaringly obvious from my tests that the technology is a mirror of human psychology more than resembles a machine algorithm. It makes sense though. The success metric for social media companies when building the social media apps has always been to keep people engaged. Give the people what they want to see. Not in a general sense. But in a cater-to-every-persons-need-and--emotions kind of specifc way. Show people what they really want to see, and they will keep looking forever. So when the algorithm has reached it's maximum efficiency, it should naturally have become a mirror of the human mind.
The key is to learn. Learn what underlying patterns work in relation to myself. The rules are not the same for everyone. After hundreds of attempts i found have now found my language. My own style and tricks to get the result. It makes sense. Consider the stock market. If you read about a strategy online in a public forum - that strategy will no longer work. It is a zero-sum game. Once the large masses applies the same strategy, the strategy has no effect that can separate you from the others. The key instead is to learn for ourselves. We should create strategies that focus on making us better, not our videos. Because if we can maximize our value offer, we can find our place where we produce most value. A corner of the internet where we provide the maximum value. If I wanted to win at pole vaulting, I wouldn't search for the best pole vaulting strategies on the internet. I would find a trainer that teaches me to maximize the potential of my strengths, and minimize the effect of my weaknesses, so I become an autonomous system programmed to win.