Tips for social media

I am a YouTube and Tiktok content creator... I would really like to become popular on these platforms, however I can't show my face in any of my videos... Has anyone here had any success online without using their face.. on YouTube I have 265 subscribers... But the thing is I would really like a couple thousand... The platform I'm struggling with the most is Tiktok..my page has about 100 videos but somehow I only have 8 followers. I really don't know how to get popular on tiktok. If you have any advice then please let me know because it would be so useful for me... Thank you !

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libra-love-•1 day ago•1

Look at channels like Barely Sociable. Super successful

Winter-Weekend-7776•1 day ago•1

Yea, 3 actually. First time getting around 300k views was YouTube, video essays about music, rap and rnb specifically. Scripting, filming, editing everything. Hit 1.2k subscribers and got about $120. I showed my face when I wasn't using background footage. Then a TikTok account where I just talked about my music opinions (rap, pop, rnb), biggest video was 2.5mil, with another like 1.5mil, and maybe 40 others with 50k-600k and 1.7k followers, similarish deal with my bussiness account.

It depends on a lot of things, your niche, what you do different from other people in the niche. I'd be down to chat, my business involves working with creators to increase their short form content views. Everyone takes a while to get their views

lucas_harbor•1 day ago•1

100 videos and 8 followers usually means the videos are all different things, so tiktok has nobody to push them to. pick one repeatable format, like narrated text stories or one kind of topic with the same opening line each time, and post only that for a month. then check which ones people watched to the end, because that number says more than views

SubmissiveBoyForever•1 day ago•0

show your face.

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