The fairly accurate joke is that the algorithm is really just telling on yourself.

> it was suggesting feeds featuring clearly mentally impaired people with large audiences throwing money at them for saying their name

I've never seen that. I saw D&D content and discussions about gamedev. The feed is what you make of it, and TikTok's very famous algorithm shows you what you signal you will watch.

Feel free to disagree, and maybe you are the very rare exception, but you watched that stuff for a week or so, and I have no idea what you are referring to.