Tik tok algorithm and boyfriend. Am I tripping? F18 M18
I am F18 and my bf is M18 and we have been dating for a year.
From my extensive stalking I do sometimes on tik tok, I noticed that when u search up someone’s username frequently, the algorithm detects the pattern and immediately suggests you their account even by typing the first letter of their user.
For context, there is this really pretty girl my bf used to talk to around a year and a few months ago. He liked her a lot but it just never worked out. I have always been sort of insecure about their relationship because they were still in the same friend group a year later and halfway into our relationship. Because of my insecurity, he removed her on all platforms for me which gave me some reassurance.
Today I just got curious since I noticed this tik tok search pattern. I put in the first letter E into the search bar and her full name immediately popped up. I tried it on my own search algorithm again to see if this would happen with someone else’s page I used to frequently search up (but do not anymore) and this did not happen when it used to.
He said he used to send her tik toks so that was probably why she showed up immediately. So hearing this, I tried the same experiment on my friend who I send videos to everyday but do not frequently search up. No suggestion. BUT when I try this on people who I search up sometimes, it works and I do get the suggestion immediately.
I feel like I’m tweaking cause I understand the search algorithm enough to know he was lurking at least within the past year, but I can’t fully rely on it because algorithms are known to be faulty sometimes.