Audience Growth

Turns out I'm bad at something called "hooks"

Chicken soup for the I'll never be a TikTok star soul
Lex Roman 2 min read

I downloaded TikTok again recently.

I had been off both Instagram and TikTok for 6 months. I don’t miss Instagram one bit, but TikTok I kinda like. Keeps me up to date with memes. Makes me feel young and fresh.

I can’t get enough of the dogs on the bus.

I thought I’d try posting there again just to see if I might have been wrong about how hard it is to get any result.

I wasn’t wrong. It’s super hard.

So I googled what’s known as “200 view jail” —a somewhat extreme descriptor for the average TikTok user (i.e. me) who can’t break through 200 views.

Here’s what I found:

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