Is this the 200-300 views jail they talk about?

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Nah, you're not in jail - you're just 5 days in with 29 followers and the algorithm is still figuring you out. That same video hitting almost 1k the next day proves it. TikTok's testing your content with different audiences at different times. 200-300 views with decent engagement on a brand new account is honestly normal, not a shadowban. Keep posting, the inconsistency is just how the first few weeks go.

I would not call this a view jail from the information here. You are five days in with 29 followers, and one video reaching about 1,600 views with roughly 170 likes is evidence that the account can get a meaningful test. A later batch landing at 200 to 300 views can simply mean the initial audience match or the first few seconds were different.

The timing observation is worth testing, but a few days is too small a sample to treat 8 pm Eastern as a rule. For the next week, keep the posting windows fairly consistent and change one thing at a time: hook, topic, length, or opening frame. Track retention, favorites, profile visits, and follows per view rather than raw views alone.

I would also avoid posting four times a day if that makes the results harder to interpret. A smaller set of distinct experiments gives you more useful feedback, and a delayed spike like the one you already saw is a good reason not to judge a post immediately.

Five days is way too small a sample to call it a jail. I’d test the same idea at two different times and watch retention more than the raw first-hour views.