My first TikTok reached a whopping 100k views, but now I only get 50 on average. Is that intentional? It sure feels like it.

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    15 hours ago

    If you’re asking whether someone at tiktok HQ saw your success and was green with envy and said “nope, we’re not showing that person’s videos to people anymore” and flipped a switch to hide your videos, then no.

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      15 hours ago

      yep, but here’s the thing: why wouldn’t TikTok do that? They give you a dopamine hit just so you get hooked and always chasing to get that high again? Sounds likely to me.

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        14 hours ago

        Ah, I see. That I don’t know, I have successfully avoided tiktok like the plague (because I know my brain would just overdose on the dopamine). But I suspect that if that were how they run things, we’d see a lot more complaints like yours. Also, such blunt mechanisms tend to leak and be reported on, especially when a service comes under close scrutiny as tiktok has. So just based on my experience with how the internet works, I doubt it.

        Edit: I may have made some wrong assumptions when I wrote this, idk.