Hey, what's going on people of the internet welcome back to another episode of the waveform podcast where your hosts I'm Marquez. I'm Andrew and I'm David and this week we've got a bunch of stuff actually we're back to having a real smartphone releases in February, which is good. It's it's it's somehow already February and only February.

I feel like this is sort of a time warp at the beginning of the year, but here we are. We also have our super secret but also not so secret viral button to discuss. We want to talk about that a little bit.

But first I did want to ask if you guys saw Mr. Beast video of curing blindness and a thousand people. Did you guys see that video?

I did not.

I did not watch it. However, if you go on the YouTube app on any computer, it is based first one that served to every single person on the planet.

He was making this whole big deal about how he's changing up the pace in a video finally like we all know what he does with his videos, which is like I took a thousand

this and did this like right off the beginning. And this one was a little bit more of long lines of like there's a real message and a real interesting thing he did.

So the title of them now was like him curing people's blindness, which is very clickable. You're like how to do that.

And then in the video he just goes through and pays for like a very basic cheap cataract removal surgery for a thousand people so they get to see for the first time in their life.

And it's actually kind of incredible. And then the spiraling in the background and Internet is it gets 50 million million views in a day.

And then everyone goes, wait, why isn't this surgery available for everyone for like for free? It should be super easy. So that's like the discussion on it.

I saw that commentary that it like highlights how terrible the US health care system is. But yeah, I mean, I don't know. I feel like that's I appreciate that Mr. Bees video can highlight for millions of people the flaws in the health care system.

Yeah. You know, maybe that's what it's going to take. Yeah.

Okay, let's talk about take talk. This is a I guess there's a couple headlines about this. But essentially there was a Forbes investigation into tick talk that revealed for

our video listeners or audio listeners. I'm doing air quotes here that revealed that there is some human intervention into what does and doesn't go viral on tick talk. I think they call it a button.

A button a heating button. Yeah. Is this a shock to anybody?

No. Well, no.

No. I wonder if this is an actual button because they keep saying it's a button. But I wonder if it's more just like a code injection software.

I guess like when you say is it a button? Do you mean like a room with this just like giant red button on it? Or do you think there's like a take talk?

Something in there. I just wonder if in like in the developer portal, they have like a heat button. I think it's like more it's from this. It seems more easily accessible than like developer code because it seems like there are people that Forbes is considering lower on the total pull of tick talk, including some contractors with bite dance.

Yeah. We're able to quote unquote press this button. Yeah. Okay. Let me just say what the button does for people who are wondering. So obviously if you've used tick talk, you know, it's just the algorithm serving you videos and it just decides what you're going to see next based on your previous behavior.

And it's gotten really good at figuring out what people want to see based on how they use tick talk.

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