Ok, bear with me, I spend very little time on Facebook if I can help it, but having a bricks and mortar shop I do use it to advertise, and as today has been particularly quiet due to weather, I've ended up scrolling more on my phone than usual. I don't have the sound on so I'm probably not playing with a full deck, (could apply to me quite broadly to be fair 
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Twice I have found myself watching inordinately long videos that appear both staged and ultimately pointless but they're not actually advertising anything.
First one was about a woman finding something hidden in her ten year old's doll, which involved about ten minutes of disembowelling said doll, revealing a multi wrapped package which she unwrapped wearing rubber gloves, using a huge knife like it was psychopathic pass the parcel, with many pauses to see if other toys had hidden items or if original doll contained anything else.... it had echoes of unboxing videos on YouTube, and I only watched to the end in case it was a gun, or drugs, or something terrifying, all the time thinking who on earth would do a video like this and why ? Or was it a cute thing and Mums Christmas present was inside? Anyway, turned out to be some plastic item that appeared totally innocuous......
Second one was posted on a community group I'm on, and was all about a pizza delivery girl being surprised by her US military husband at an address she'd been sent to. Woman who orders pizza hands it to said soldier who adds a bunch if Rose's, and he stands at the wide open door while delivery wife is counting her money....... thought it might be a "cute" moment, but after the counting stretches into minutes and she didn't look up once I had a look to see how long the video was......16 minutes!!!!!!!! I mean, just not plausibly real in the slightest!!!
So I know that I am old, I am tech averse, and that there are probably algorithms chunking bitcoin up someones arse just because you've looked at the video for a second or something, and I know the answer is to scroll on by and not waste my time, but can anyone enlighten me further? It seems utterly bonkers .....
And that's without mentioning the one I watched where someone was applying acrylic paint to glasses by flushing a toilet to achieve a marble effect (obviously didn't work, but that one had me watching with open mouth thinking "In what world did this even become a possibility????)
Baffled, I am, utterly baffled!!!!