Regarding the 0% FYP views issue - my findings after 50 days of investigation.

In short, most likely, MOST...likely, is that their shadowban cooldown timer isn't working.

When you do something or somethings wrong, (or if their algorithm thinks that you did) you eventually get shadowb@nned for 1-7 days and it passes on its own.

What's most likely going on now is that the cooldown timer of that status isn't working and the account is not restored. intentionally or not, idk.

An AI flags your account for some reason, you get 0 views, and the timer does not work and it wont pass on its own. also could explain why a second account get hurt by it too. the newer the account, the higher chance it has to get a shadowban for a day or two. but if the cooldown timer doesn't work, it just stays like that. that's most likely why 95% of pages i checked are few days old to 6 months max. newer accounts are more sensitive to get 24h-72h shadowban. after a lot of time your account is more "trusted".

This type of shadowban/issue is not devic e related and not IP related. checked all that. also, sometimes even if you do nothing wrong, your views will stop for 24h for security checks, but since the cooldown timer isn't working then....yeah..

I sent their support over 100 mails and 50 tick_ets. eventually i was (maybe) able to get a human (under the name Michael) to answer, this is what he told me:

https://preview.redd.it/wsm1q1bm6y5h1.png?width=1098&format=png&auto=webp&s=04ccf982511b1785cb499dc7d6108e7e181c7787

Don't bother thinking what you did wrong, don't bother creating a new account. Don't bother posting a new video everyday. nothing you will do from your side will fix it. also it could be that they are testing a new type/kind of ban/restriction and testing it out on creators that..lets just say, their world will not fall if those creators will leave tiktok.

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ilurkroundhereabout 1 month ago1

Honestly this completely makes sense I think ur right on that. What I’m wondering is, since there seems to be some sort of distribution lock before pushing vides out to FYP, what can we do to retrigger it or something 😭

DiazKaiasabout 1 month ago1

I got the same response I created a new account 3 days ago it’s doing well each vid gets over 10k and all my old followers are finding me the weird thing about this 0 glitch issue if I unhide my old videos that was hidden before the glitch they show on search and fyp and get views and likes and promote works for them but all my other 100 videos are shadow ban. Also my account is 2 years old but was dormant until 6 months ago

Expensive-Agent8284about 1 month ago1

I think you might be onto something. And if you're right, obviously they're never going to admit it, since their tech department/support is not exactly transparent. What's your advice at the end? Leaving the platform? Opening a new account and hoping it won't be affected?