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Deliberately changing engagement behavior — unfollowing, blocking, or mass-skipping — specifically to force a platform's algorithm to recalculate what it shows you.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"I did a full feed reset last week and my homepage is unrecognizable now, way less noise."
LORE & ORIGIN
Named once users realized they could actively intervene in a feed's training signal rather than just tolerating whatever it learned.
FIRST SEEN
2025
PEAK POPULARITY
2025-2026 (Algorithmic Drift Era)
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Gen Alpha Slang
Related To:Ranking DriftAlgorithm BiasFeed Debt
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+15 AURA
TREND STATUS
↑ HIGH RISING FAST · HIGH
CULTURE CATEGORY
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RELATED TERMS
MENTIONS OVER TIME
2023202420252026
RELATED SEARCHES
TOP PLATFORMS
TikTok
68%
YouTube
15%
Twitter / X
9%
Reddit
5%
Others
3%
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