How do you come up with content ideas when you feel like you've shown everything?

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Topic summary

The conversation addresses strategies for generating fresh content when creators feel they’ve exhausted their ideas.

Suggested approaches include:

  • Adopting different perspectives by imagining yourself as someone with a contrasting personality to view your content through new lenses
  • Leveraging the “remix” trend now officially supported by platforms like Instagram and TikTok, where repurposing and adapting existing content has become normalized (though original tagging/collaboration norms have shifted)
  • Mining user-generated content and audience interactions as a direct source of inspiration
  • Conducting deep research into target audience problems by exploring communities on Reddit, Threads, LinkedIn groups, and Facebook groups to uncover thousands of potential topics

The discussion emphasizes that ideas themselves are abundant—the challenge lies in aligning them with specific goals and audience needs.

Summarized with AI on October 25. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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How do you come up with content ideas when you feel like you’ve shown everything?

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I shall imagine myself another person who has a quite different personality and see my content in another aspect, after that I can think up further ideas, no matter good or not, I can get some benefits from it actually.

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Ideas are in abundance; whether they hit the goals or not is another matter.

Recently, there has been this remix movement officially supported by platforms like IG and TikTok. The unwritten rule used to be that if people were stealing borrowing someone else’s ideas, they should at least tag the original creator or collaborate with them.

It seems like it has now become the norm.

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Mine ideas from the users. Its a goldmine.

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Know your target audience, and have in-depth understanding about their problems. For this, you can check social media platforms like Reddit, Threads, Linkedin groups and facebook groups. You’ll get thousands of content ideas for blogging, social media posts/reels, etc.