No politics? My fyp highly disagrees. However, the algorithm is amazingly good at keeping you in your political in-group.

You'll often hear content creators talk about "getting on the wrong side of TikTok" - meaning they started getting recommended to an out-group. (For example super cool super funny @melissadilkoateras ending up in MAGA feeds occasionally).

Cue brigading of reports, community violations, etc until the audience stabilizes.

I think the reputation is due to the zealous take down policy and the solid profiling that keeps you in your comfortable content window.