Teamwork and F4f trends…. Are they worth it?

Hello guys. Trying to grow my account to 1k followers to get into the pilot program.

I see these posts that get tons of comments where people ask to follow each other. I engaged in a few and even made 1 myself and I see the followers. Not some bots either!Real people trying to make it here just like me.

The question is if TikTok may ban me for using this? Seeing it as some type of weird growth…