It's not just you fam. I pull a cool 20,000-80,000 views on shorts on the reg, anywhere from 2,000-20,000 on facebook, and between 2,000-10,000 on IG.
Tiktok?
200, MAYBE 1000 if I'm lucky.
I knew Tok was cooked when the same video went viral on youtube, IG, and Facebook back to back (almost a mil on YT, 80k on IG, and 300k on FB) but capped at like 1,400 views on Tok. When everybody else is telling you "the content is good" and ONE platform is completely cucking you do NOT blame yourself.
That's not to say "there's nothing you can do", its just to say your content is more engaging than tiktok is giving you credit for. For one reason or another, our vids aren't going to the FYF. If that doesn't happen it doesn't matter how good the video is, its never gonna take off. The question is why? Clearly TikTok demands something totally different from the other platforms and our videos are lacking whatever that thing is. Either that or the vids have some thing in it that Tok has decided isn't FYF friendly. Haven't fully figured it out myself yet, but the facts are as such:
- People are going viral on Tiktok.
- We are not.
- If tiktok video performance was entirely about quality of the content or how engaging it is, then videos that consistently perform well on other platforms would also be performing well on TikTok.
- Tiktok has an insanely strict set of community guidelines
I combine all of these to assume that there's some hurdle we're not clearing when we hit upload. My best guess is that the algo is flagging something but I genuinely don't know what. I think our next step is gonna have to be read the entirety of the community guidelines, take notes on what NOT to do for reference, and take no chances whatsoever on breaking those rules. Its a long shot but we're content creators, our #1 motto is "control what you can" so hopefully that'll be enough. Lemme know if you figure anything out that helps