Is there any relationship between likes and views on TikTok?

Hi folks! I am new to TikTok posting and a bit confused by the relationship between likes and views. I am not that stressed about it because this is just for fun, but it does puzzle me.

These are the settled views and likes on my seven videos so far:

Video 1 - 321 views and 3 (1% liked)
Video 2 - 268 views and 6 likes (2% liked)
Video 3 - 1,775 views, 44 likes (3% liked) and 11 comments
Video 4 - 1,329 views, 14 likes (1% liked) and 1 comment
Video 5 - 652 views, 38 likes (6% liked)
Video 6 - 257 views, 4 likes (1%)
Video 7 - 227 views, 15 likes (7% liked)

I don’t understand how Video 4 got so high (for me) on views, whilst Video 5 and 7 do much worse despite generating much better engagement.

All the beginner stuff is about quality content, but if engagement with my content isn’t how I gauge the quality for my audience in terms of the algorithm pushing it then…what is?

Comments

CapableCookie115026 days ago1

I have the same issue I have 900 views and only 33 likes. I’m not sure how it kept getting engagement? On a few, I have under 200 and 40 likes.

I’m gonna be honest the app has been messed up for the last six months. This is the 3rd time in 3 months that major problems have happened to the masses. In that time there have been ongoing issues. So I think.. It's just running on luck at this Point. I don’t think there’s a relationship between engagement and the algorithm right now. Some of my friends have thousands of followers and hundreds like a video regularly. And they are getting 12 likes currently.

You can take a break from posting or just keep posting and not care. I honestly don’t think there’s an answer or fix currently. We just have to wait it out.