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A platform's practice of interleaving different content types — organic posts, ads, suggested content — within a single scrolling feed.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Every third post is sponsored now, the feed layering has gotten a lot more aggressive lately."
LORE & ORIGIN
Standard platform-design terminology for the deliberate mixing strategy, used casually once users started noticing the pattern of what appears between what.
FIRST SEEN
2019
PEAK POPULARITY
2019-2026 (Platform Mechanics Vocabulary)
CURRENT STATUS
Legacy / Decaying Slang
Related To:Content PullAlgorithm BiasFeed Friction
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+5 AURA
TREND STATUS
↑ HIGH RISING FAST · LOW
CULTURE CATEGORY
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RELATED SEARCHES
TOP PLATFORMS
TikTok
38%
YouTube
22%
Twitter / X
18%
Reddit
14%
Others
8%
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