What Does This Mean?
The gradual, often unnoticed shift in the type of content a person consumes over a single session, ending up somewhere completely unrelated to — and sometimes much more extreme than — where they started.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"I started on cooking videos and forty minutes of content drift later I was watching conspiracy theories about the moon."
LORE & ORIGIN
Named by media researchers studying recommendation systems around 2022-2023, 'content drift' describes how short-form platforms incrementally steer viewing sessions toward more engaging (often more extreme) material one small step at a time, with no single step feeling like a jump.
MENTIONS OVER TIME
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