TikTok freezes views at 500 despite very high like ratio

Hi everyone, I'm a wlw couple content creator and I'm very puzzled about my recent engagement. I've been posting high quality videos like always, and most of them are getting a staggering 90 likes in the first 300 views, literally within 5 minutes. Then, just out of nowhere, the views suddenly slow down and it stops getting pushed despite immediate and very active engagement.

For context, I first started posting in February, and since my very first video (which hit 1M views within a week) literally every single thing I posted would always hit at least 10k and on average 40k views within a day or two, and regularly over 100k as well. Recently, the account died (every new video stuck at 0 views, impossible to fix) so I started a new account. I'm very confused, because I post the exact same things: around 7 second long wlw jokes/relatable content. Basically every video I post goes on the same trajectory that on my old account would always lead to popularity - over 60 likes in 300 views/couple minutes - but then randomly gets frozen in the middle of doing very well.

I have checked my analytics and they are exactly the same on both accounts, which should imply that my new videos should do exactly as well as my old videos. But for some mysterious untraceable reason they're getting blocked. How do I resolve this? Does anyone else have experience with this?

One more thing is these prompts saying stuff like "Your content's fire-just needs more viewers. • Spend £9
get 26377 views" pop up under all of my new videos. Is it possible that they're freezing my views as some sort of strategy to get me to pay them?

Any insights are appreciated. Thanks!

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Substantial-Rub-1240•about 2 months ago•2

I can promise you they are doing that. Plus just after you post something i bet in the next few videos the you swipe through will be an ai tiktok promote video telling you how good of an idea it is to use the promote feature. 22nd of Jan this year they mostly sold out to a few major investors so you know they will be pushing hard on raising their profit. Sorry i cant actually help, im just a developer lucky to get 100 views.

B3N0U•about 2 months ago•2

The 500 ceiling and the like ratio are measuring two different things, which is why a great ratio doesn't move it. the first push is a small test batch, and what decides whether you graduate out of it is completion and re-watch, not likes. likes come from the people who already made it to the end, so a video can have a killer ratio among the 400 who saw it and still stall, because the batch is asking "did most people watch through" and that pool is mostly people who bailed early.

the tell is in your own retention graph. if the curve drops off a cliff in the first couple seconds, your ratio is coming from the handful who stayed, and the system is reading that early drop, not the likes. a curve that stays flatish through the open tends to break the 500 wall even on a mediocre like count.

so i'd stop tuning the part that's already working (the ratio) and stare at second 1 to 3 instead. what's on screen before the first cut, how fast the first line pays off. that's the gate here, not engagement.

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Character-Chemist134•about 2 months ago•1

It makes me mad. My only videos that do well are my AI videos of pretty visuals but as soon as I talk about the same stuff in a voiceover and try to build a connected those stall. I get more likes per view on my voiceovers than my AI 🙄

zetabetical•about 2 months ago•1

A similar thing is happening to me. The bottom line is TikTok is greedy and want the poster to pay money to get views and/or only push videos that will keep viewers glued to their screens. Their goal is to get money from posters then hijack the brains of viewers to get money from them too. It’s dystopian but what can we expect.

Also, you say that you are using the same formula but if the content is different each video, then not really. Some content will resonate and some won’t even if to you they are all equally funny. TikTok will only push your ultra successful videos.

Prestigious_Dig8363•about 2 months ago•1

not sure how the tracking works as it’s banned here, but if it’s possible I think you should contact support it’s it’s not from their side it’s probably the algo blocking it for verification

zubrinovic•about 2 months ago•1

the stall at a round number is tiktok's batch distribution, not a verdict on the video. it tests in waves with a checkpoint between them, and a video that stops at 300-500 despite strong engagement usually got held at a review step rather than rejected by the algorithm. two concrete things: open tiktok studio and check the video's status, if it's marked ineligible for the for you feed there's an appeal path right there. and don't delete and repost the same video, repeated identical uploads read as spam and make the account-level situation worse.

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