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Just out of curiosity, how would you build a following if none of your videos ever receives any views? I'm not someone who uses the tikity tok but it seems like an intractable problem.



Leave noteworthy comments on other peoples videos, make noteworthy stitches of theirs. Embrace remix culture, essentially. It only seems like an intractable problem to non power users of social media.


What if those videos also receive no views? Serious question, I don't know how Tiktok works well enough to intuit.


If those videos receive no views, then it means the concept of the stitch wasn't compelling. Practically speaking -- just do it over and over again until you find something that does work.

Some people have a knack for making content that goes viral, but for most folks, it's a muscle that needs to be learned through lots of practice, with a lot of early going seemingly bearing little fruit until the inflection point is reached.


Search for "zero views" on Youtube.


Share your videos as a response to a comment on HN.


In other words: be a spammer.

Yay, incentives on social media sites are totally not perverted.


The problem is that "getting people to see your stuff" is the route to monetization, and therefore is horribly choked with spam that stacks the odds against real humans.




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