It's akin to slot-machine gambling. Once in a while you strike gold (a genuinely useful or entertaining post), so you keep pulling the lever, over and over.
It’s hard to remember here are a few off the top of my head:
Pete Holmes God is nothing. Supposed to be comedy but really clicked for me.
A couple series where people just strike up conversations with strangers. It started to feel normalized after a while and I started doing it in my own life.
Maybe not life changing but a pickleball tip on something I’d been struggling with that finally made it click. (Judging which balls are going out)
There are lots of other things but those jump out at me.
I wont quote the 5% number, but I have changed multiple ways of doing things in my (daily!) life from tiktok: how i tie my shoes and a bunch of other knots, how I prepare some of my daily food like eggs and potatoes has changed, how I interact with my phone (unknown shortcuts and features). I literally can't enumerate all the things I have learned and used. Two weeks ago, I had to pull a t-post out of the ground and I used a technique I saw a week or two earlier and it made it so damn easy.
Overall worth it but kind of like panning for gold I guess. Maybe that’s why it’s addictive.