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TIKTOK now🙂‍↔️

Decline on TikTok......Like it used to be so full of life and diversity. It showed us all over the world, now It's hey, where's your location? So we can better suit the blah blah blah to your area. I want to see the world.

I've been experimenting with TikTok's scheduled posts for the last month, and I can officially confirm: it completely kills your reach.

For context, I run three different TikTok accounts, all with over 100k followers. They are in completely different niches, but I use the exact same format and editing style across all of them. To test this properly, I manually posted on one account, and used scheduled posts on the other two—essentially sacrificing those two accounts for science. **The "It's just bad timing" debunk:** Whenever people complain about scheduling, everyone in the comments says *"you're just posting at the wrong time."* So, I spent a full month posting 2 videos daily on the scheduled accounts and constantly rotated the times. I tried 7 AM/PM, adjusted to 8 AM/PM, and so on, until I literally hit every time slot. **The Results after 1 month:** * **The 2 Scheduled Accounts:** Consistently trapped between 1,000 and 10,000 views. No matter what time I posted. * **The 1 Manual Account:** Never dropped below 100k views, with a few videos easily clearing millions. The built-in scheduler is powered by AI, and it's incredibly convenient. But they don't want you using it for free. By artificially throttling your organic reach when you use it, they force you into a corner where you have to buy their paid "Promote" feature to regain your normal viewership. What's wild is that TikTok will never actually admit this, and they won't even put out a straight official statement confirming whether scheduling affects reach or not. Instead, whenever creators complain, they completely dodge the question and give unrelated answers like "fix your posting time"—an excuse that my 1-month experiment completely debunked. They are gaslighting creators to cover up a pay-to-play system.

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Guns are not cool..!! Only to a fool..!! Bullying is not and domestic violence is not cool..!!

You're on a date but she's kinda sus

@jumybear

What is going on in here?

You have a brand idea. How much work does your pitch leave for the reader?

A usable brand pitch names the product, explains the audience fit, proposes one concrete idea, supplies real proof and asks for one next step. The Example below labels each sentence by its job so you can replace the details without copying invented audience claims. | Example line | Job | What to replace | | --- | --- | --- | | 1. Your skillet fits my weeknight cooking videos. | Product relevance | A product you actually know | | 2. My viewers want fast dinners after work. | Audience fit | Your verified audience need | | 3. I propose one 15-minute dinner video. | Concrete idea | Your deliverable | | 4. Here is one related video I made: [your real link]. | Proof | A real relevant sample | | 5. Are you open to a short outline and quote? | Next step | One low-friction question | Example subject: "One weeknight dinner idea for [brand]". The 15 minutes describes the recipe, not a promised production time or audience result. In an actual pitch replace the bracketed link with your work, but never borrow another creator's performance. If you have no measured audience insight, describe the content you make instead of claiming viewers asked for it. Five lines is a teaching structure, not a magic email length or conversion claim. Example pitch: "Hi [name], your skillet fits my weeknight cooking videos. I make practical dinner content for people cooking after work. I propose one video showing a 15-minute dinner using the skillet. Here is a related video I made: [your real sample]. Are you open to a short outline and quote?" Which line is missing from your pitch?

When the tea hits💥

A zombie movie

Two Instagram DM settings most people never turn on

I spend a lot of time helping small business and creators optimize their Instagram inboxes. It’s almost always the same few questions coming in over and over, and each one takes a few minutes to answer in between everything else. Instagram has two features made for exactly this, and most accounts I look at haven’t set up either one. **1. FAQs (also called ice breakers)** These are up to four questions that show up when someone opens a chat with you for the first time, like “How much is a cut?” or “Do you ship to Europe?”. The person taps one instead of typing and gets the answer you wrote ahead of time. You can set them up in the app, under the business or creator tools in your settings. To pick the four, scroll back through last month’s DMs and count. After ten minutes the top four are usually obvious. They only show in the phone app and only in a new chat, so people who’ve already messaged you won’t see them. **2. a persistent menu** This is a small menu that stays available for the whole conversation. Someone can jump to “Book”, “Prices” or “Order status” at any point without having to ask. You can’t set this one up in the app. It only works through Instagram’s messaging API, so you need a DM tool that connects to it. **Where a tool actually changes things** The FAQs you set in the app send one fixed reply and stop there. Set up through a tool with API access, a tap can start a whole flow: the answer, a follow-up question, then the right link. On the accounts I'm helping, people who tap an ice breaker set up this way click the link they get about 57% of the time. If you only need a fixed answer, the in-app version is fine. **Two small habits that help either way** * Put the link in your second message, not your first. A first message that’s only a link reads like spam. * Keep your first reply short enough to read in a lock screen preview. Hope you find this useful! :) and curious to know what’s the one question you get in DMs more than any other?

App Crashing/Closing in Background while listening to Lives on New Phone

I just recently got an iPhone 18 Pro Max and ever since whenever I listen to lives in the background the app closes/crashes(?) on it's own after about 5 minutes. Any idea what's causing this? It never used to happen on my 16 Pro Max. TIA!

Emily Miller aka ThrifyFatty

I was shocked this morning to see Emily, aka ThriftyFatty, recently died unexpectedly. She went viral several years ago after posting about her first experience with a woman, and went on to get married, share so much of her life online (including health stuff, grief, real life, etc), and it's profoundly sad.

Tiktok took money from my bank account balance??