Did tikt tok allow longer comments?

Suddenly I can write like 700 words not characters WORDS!! I made a comment so long i had to push see more like 9 times to read it all how tf did I do that and I also can go live with only 50 followers when I tried on my old account fir years and had like 600 followers, they always told me to get 1000 to go live now Suddenly things have changed?