Algorithm-Based Character Development

I wish I came up with the term “algorithm-based character development,” but credit must go to friend of a friend, Omowale Afrika.1 I began thinking more about this idea after I watched a Youtube video2 that explored just how many of online culture’s most inflammatory figures became advocates of their ideas not out of deeply held lifelong convictions, but rather, after having stumbled upon an algorithmically winning formula following years of trial and error.