I paid TikTok $300 to advertise my own videos. They delivered bots, my reach died, and even a fresh account is dead on arrival.
This is not a question. This is a warning for every small creator thinking about paying TikTok to push their videos.
I was a normal user. regularly shopped through TikTok Shop. I was exactly the kind of user this platform supposedly wants.
Then I made the mistake of giving them $300 through their built in tool that pushes your posts to a wider audience.
What I got for my money was bot traffic. Thousands of views, and the only engagement was spam that had nothing to do with the video. Generic copy paste garbage, random emojis, reactions that looked like they were written for a completely different post. Not a single real human. And the moment the campaign ended, my organic reach was executed. Every post after that got 2 views. Two. The algorithm looked at the garbage traffic their own system poured on my account and decided I was the fraud.
I and started fresh with a new email. The new account gets 1 view per post. There is no escape and there is no human in support, just a bot that closes appeals.
They sell you reach. The poisoned account leaves you invisible unless you pay again. It's a protection racket where the protection is from the damage they cause.
My account is gone and I'm done with the platform. I just want this story to exist in public, because when I searched for this before paying, I found almost nothing, and that silence cost me $300 and months of work.
