Anyone else feel like Meta ads are rewarding “ugly” creatives more than polished brand ads lately?

Not sure if this is just my accounts, but the best performing creatives lately are the ones that look the least “designed.”

I’m talking:

- founder selfie videos

- messy screenshots with text over them

- UGC that looks like it was filmed in one take

- product demos with bad lighting but clear explanation

- simple comparison graphics made in Canva

Meanwhile the polished stuff with nice animation, brand colors, perfect copy, etc. gets clicks but doesn’t always convert.

Is this just a trust thing now? Like people are tuning out anything that looks too much like an ad?

What are others seeing. Are you still putting effort into polished creative, or mostly testing raw/organic-looking ads first?

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u/EconomyMastodon5592 — 13 days ago

Why do my old TikTok videos get more views than my new ones now?

My older uploads from like 3-4 months ago are somehow getting pushed harder than the stuff I post now. Those videos still pull comments, followers, and random spikes daily while new uploads barely touch 1k views.

Account has around 74k TikTok followers so I thought consistency would help more by now, but lately it feels like TikTok not pushing my videos unless they’re already old somehow.

No major TikTok content violation on the account either. Honestly starting to think the TikTok algorithm treats older posts better than active creators sometimes.

Anybody else dealing with this weird reach problem lately?

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u/EconomyMastodon5592 — 14 days ago

Anyone Else Feel Like Sales Jobs Became Way More “Always On” After Remote Work?

"I know remote work has obvious upsides, but I also feel like a lot of sales orgs quietly replaced office pressure with Slack pressure.

Now it’s:

- instant reply expectations

- constant KPI screenshots

- late-night notifications

- managers checking activity dashboards all day

Sometimes it feels harder to mentally disconnect now than when people were actually in-office.

Or maybe that’s just certain companies?"

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u/EconomyMastodon5592 — 15 days ago

The overlooked problem of today's manchild

Human beings were never meant to have such desires like desiring to be with a woman whom  a man sees only through the screen, there is no connection no reason just pure lustful desire for that particular being .

Just from the virtual manifestation of the woman through screen is invoked such a fire in the mind in a man of this generation

1000 years apart and for the average man of today this is really damaging to the brain

The desire without proof of existence the inner animal wanting to copulate

We are all so much advanced in technology still this weakness inside each of us keeps us at bay from reaching our true potential.

What are y'all thoughts on this?

Quite concerning isn't it

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u/EconomyMastodon5592 — 16 days ago
▲ 18 r/LLMDevs

Have you actually used 256K/1M context for messy workflow inputs?

Most long-context talk still sounds like a chat demo. The uglier test is whether a model can hold a PRD, logs, docs, tests, repo slices, prior outputs, and contradictory notes from earlier runs in one working context without everything turning brittle. That is why Ling-2.6-1T is interesting to me. The official docs say it supports up to 1M native context, while the official API currently exposes 256K. The public materials also keep pairing that with fast thinking and lower token overhead. If that matters in practice, the win is not "it can chat forever." The win is fewer chunk / summarize / stitch passes, less context loss between steps, and less prompt glue holding the workflow together.

Have you tried a long-context model on work like this? PRD + repo + tests, long incident logs, or multi-run agent state with conflicting notes. Where did it actually help you, and where did it still make you clean the mess by hand?

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u/EconomyMastodon5592 — 21 days ago