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That discovery was almost entirely manual, made possible by the all-consuming, boundless energy of adolescence without any algorithmic design. "We are in this place in culture, where so many people expect algorithmic understanding," says Brennan. Tumblr might be the place for you to go out and find yourself, but "TikTok basically comes to you," says Zuccarelli, because the algorithm "knows everything about you." To compete in the recommendation algorithm arena, Tumblr would need to ask its users for more information about who they are and what they like something it historically has rebuked in favor of anonymity.
At the time of publishing, Tumblr reports that there are 9.4 million daily posts on the platform, compared to 84 million in 2014. But with the rise of '90s and early 2000s nostalgia among Gen Z, a revival of the platform seems possible. In January, D'Onofrio said that half of the platform's active users and 71 percent of its new users are Gen Z. Kahle who, at 25, is a zillennial, says attracting Gen Z and getting them to stay "may come down to the product." For example, Kahle says "if Gen Z's attention span is whatever percent shorter than millennials' then the recommendation algorithm needs to be used to churn out content way faster." /End ID]
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