every notification is a hit of dopamine. every like, comment, and favorite tells you: "you're valuable. you matter. keep doing what makes us feel this way"

picture a girl with a casual alt account posting lip syncs and dances. she gets maybe 2k views per video, which is fine but nothing special. then one day she posts one where she leans over and her shirt isn't buttoned all the way up, and that video gets 50k views

you already know what happens next. even if she didn't mean to, her brain picks up on the pattern real quick: no one actually cares about your lip syncing, they want to see your body, so show them

gooners scroll right past her covered-up videos, so the algo stops pushing them. and once she's felt that 50k high, she needs it again. her next videos are in low cut crop tops, then bikinis, then undies, and she gets rewarded every single time

think of it like a gooning pc virus. the algo figures out what you'll like by checking if someone like you already liked it. same accounts, same interests, same area? the content starts seeping into your feed whether you asked for it or not

every time you like or repost, it goes straight to your followers. if even five of them do the same, suddenly it's everywhere. and the whole time, it's quietly creeping from every gooner's feed into the feeds of anyone even a little bit like them

and the best part? the people who don't even know they're next. maybe they liked a few too many beach videos. maybe they kept rewatching clips of their hot cousin. maybe they paused just a little too long on that twerking tiktok. they have no idea, but they're already getting pulled into the gooner cave

once they're in, they're done for. endlessly scrolling, endlessly gooning, and now they're spreading it to everyone they know too