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Document yourself learning something badly but consistently, since “watch me get better at this” is a lot more relatable than pretending to be an expert.
theres really not an answer we can give without knowing you and your interests.
I could say something like car spotting, and you might not like cars.
"i want to make content but i don't know what to make. anyone have suggestions?"
assuming you have no following, just make things and see if you enjoy doing it. you don't have to get thousands of views or followers etc.
Trouve un domaine dont tu es fait et lance du contenu sur ce domaine. Pour faire des réelles, il n'est pas obligatoire de montrer son visage. Ce qui est obligatoire, c'est avoir du bon contenu et de publier à la bonne heure
I've been absolutely obsessed with short form content for the last two years. Like people have staged actual interventions about my health level of obsessed. I'm talking 11-14 hour days breaking down what separates successful videos from failures, experimenting with different hook variations, rewriting scripts until my brain hurts, testing every editing approach I could possibly get my hands on. Why this level of obsession? Because I'm absolutely certain short form video is the backbone of everything right now. Growing followers, selling anything, generating opportunities, creating brands from nothing. Every part of it depends on whether you can hold someone's attention for 30 seconds. But here's what nearly made me quit entirely: despite the constant daily grind, nothing was hitting. I'd pour 7-8 hours into crafting one video only to watch it crash at 300 views. Tried every tactic from every person claiming to have figured it out. Bought their courses. Applied their "proven" methods. Still going nowhere. I seriously started thinking maybe I'm just not the type of person who can make this work. Like maybe there's some fundamental ability I'm completely lacking. Then something clicked. I'm grinding constantly, but I'm operating completely blind. I don't actually know what's broken. I'm essentially just trying random things hoping something eventually works. So I stopped hunting for some mythical viral code and started analyzing actual data. Analyzed my last 50 videos second by second, documented every retention drop, and discovered 5 consistent patterns that were systematically killing my performance: 1. **Vague mysterious hooks are totally invisible** "This will transform you..." gets scrolled past every time. But "I used resistance bands for 55 days and my shoulder mobility actually decreased" stops people mid scroll. Specific concrete details destroy vague teasing without exception. 2. **Seconds 5-7 are where everything gets decided** Most viewers leave between 4-7 seconds if you haven't proven it's worth watching. I was creating slow buildups like a complete amateur. Now my strongest visual or most compelling number arrives exactly at second 5. That's where the hook that genuinely holds people. 3. **Any gap beyond 1 second absolutely kills your retention** Tracked this obsessively, anything past 1.2 seconds makes people think the video stopped. What feels like natural comfortable pacing to you reads as complete dead time to someone scrolling. Cut significantly tighter than feels normal. 4. **Visual variety is absolutely critical** If nothing changes on screen for more than 3 seconds, attention vanishes without warning. I started constantly rotating camera angles, cutting to b-roll, moving text placement, literally anything to maintain constant visual movement. Went from losing 50% at the halfway mark to keeping 70%. 5. **Rewatch rate is dramatically more important than most people realize** Videos people watch more than once get pushed exponentially harder by the algorithm. Started planting subtle details that aren't obvious first viewing, editing faster, adding elements worth discovering on rewatch. Rewatch percentage jumped from 8% to 31% and reach went completely through the roof. Honestly the biggest shift was abandoning all guesswork and actually measuring what was happening at every second. Came across this one app that goes way beyond showing where people drop off, it literally tells you why and exactly how to correct it. That's when everything transformed. Went from averaging 300 views to hitting 18k in about 4 weeks. Regular analytics show you people are leaving. This one shows the exact second, the actual reason, and what to adjust before your next post. If you're uploading consistently but stuck below 1k views, your content isn't the problem. You just don't know what's genuinely working versus what you assume is working. Listen, I'm sharing this because breaking through was honestly one of the hardest things I've tackled. I really wish someone had just explained exactly what needed fixing when I was stuck there. Would have saved months of confusion and doubt. So that's what I'm doing now for anyone who needs it.
I got fed up with feeds full of suggested/random content instead of the people I actually follow. Curious if this resonates with anyone else here or if I'm overthinking a problem nobody else has.
I am(21M) we are 4 members in my family my younger sister and my parents . My mom runs a small shop and my father too. We all have smartphones except my mom. Over 5 years we are using phones. But my don't have a smartphone or any phone she doesn't even know how to use it. At the night when father comes home and she too then she watch some serial in phone. I noticed she is more happier than 3 of us. She is extremely focused on her work and doesn't complain for anything and handle all the situation very wisely. She knows the real world and not influenced by the fake social media world.
How would you grow a women-focused Instagram account from 0? I’m starting a new page aimed at women and I’m trying to figure out how to get it in front of the right audience and grow organically. Thanks for your support and help.
I have an account I made months ago and have just started posting on it. I'm only a handful of posts in but the videos seem to stay between 200-300 views. The first video was 800-1000. I've kept to posting once per day to give the previous video a chance but now I'm thinking maybe it's best to post twice? The quality is the same and I have the video ready, I'm just wondering if it's better to post twice rather than once per day? Is that good or bad? As I understand it, TikTok is trying to find my audience right now, so just keep posting right?
I run a small B2B data company in Finland and opened a Threads account this morning, so before posting much I checked who else from my category is there. ZoomInfo has 2,071 followers and its last post is from September 2023. Cognism has 530 followers and zero posts. I could not find accounts for Apollo or Lusha at all, and the Nordic companies I run into locally (Vainu, Proff, Allabolag, North Data) are not there either. Fonecta, a large Finnish directory company, has 229 followers and no posts. The audience side is less even than I expected. In Finland 24% of people use Threads weekly, which is more than LinkedIn's 17% in the same survey (DNA, 2025). In Sweden only 7% had used it at all in the past year, against 29% for LinkedIn (Svenskarna och internet 2025). Germany is around 8% regular users (ARD/ZDF 2025). So the empty space is real, but in most countries there is not much of a crowd in it yet. My first post was a short founder story about a customer's Excel export going wrong. It got a bit over 900 views in the first hour from an account with one follower, and the comments came from developers, not buyers. The part I have not figured out is whether B2B on Threads turns into anything besides views. If you have run a B2B account there for a few months, did any of it show up in pipeline?