Lower views on TikTok recently? And what’s your take on accounts with lower follower counts?

I posted a video on Monday that got a decent amount of engagement, however it’s been downhill since I tried posting again on Thursday. I don’t have a high follower count, that should’ve been hinted at based on my title. But normally if a video got low views, I’d try posting again anywhere between 2-3 tries on different days and it would eventually sort itself out. Apparently the low views have been complained about from other content creators and I’m not even at their level of popularity. You can say maybe it’s my content but I’d test it out on YouTube & the video did fine. I’ve had my account for a little over 3 months and I have 163 followers. 30+ followers were gained quickly over the past 2-4 days and not sure if that’s affecting my engagement, since I wonder if they’re bots. Some of these accounts don’t have content, just reposts and like stuff. I didn’t pay for followers, do you look down on accounts with low follower counts?

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Tbh I’ve noticed it’s easier for accounts with less followers to have videos perform better. It seems like as I gained followers my metrics had to get better and better for the videos to perform the same.

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