A TikTok creator is struggling with low video performance after posting approximately 75 videos over 30 days. Most videos plateau under 1,000 views and stop gaining traction after just 4 hours, with only 2 exceptions reaching over 2,000 views.
Key Issues Identified:
Videos use attention-grabbing hooks (burning laptops, gamer rage quits, loud fan sounds) but viewers scroll away after 2-5 seconds
Longer videos (30 sec) lose viewers immediately after the hook
Shorter videos (10 sec) retain viewers for about 5 seconds on average
No copyright issues detected
The creator promotes laptop cooling pads through their account ZiltshDegrees.
Advice Given:
Focus on creating viral-worthy content that’s shocking, helpful, controversial, or shareable
Include more prelude/buildup content before the marketing pitch to increase engagement
The most successful video combined two hooks at the beginning (~5 seconds total)
The discussion remains open as the creator seeks additional feedback on improving viewer retention and video performance.
Summarized with AI on November 1.
AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
I have started my tiktok account 30 days ago and since then I have posted close to 75 videos. All of then never pass 1000 views except for 2 videos and all of them stop gwtting views after just 4 hours of posting. I am hundred percent sure that I have to copyright issues because I run the copyright check through tiktok before I post. I really believe that the quality of my videos is good enough to at least get 5k views or something. My tiktok account is called ZiltshDegrees in case you actually wanna check the quality of the videos. Please help me!!
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when making videos think of trying to go viral, maybe start the video with like burning your thighs with the laptop as a grabber or a hook that catches people, and remember that you want something that people are going to share because its either shocking, gossip, helpful, informational, controversial, etc. those are the posts that get shared and interacted with the most and seen the most
I really appreciate your advice. I want to tell you that I am using hooks that include an actual burning laptop, popular gamers rage quitting, laptop fams soooo loud it feels like it is a jet engine and a couple more. What I noticed is that in longer 30 sec videos people would watch the 2 or 3 sec hook then 1 or 2 sec after then scrol past the video. In shorter videos that are 10 sec or so, people watch about 5 sec on average then scrol past as well. If ypu have any advice on what I can do to solve the problem, please tell me. I want you to note that all of the video types never surpass 1000 views
Hey there @Ziltsh I just glanced through your page and I rewatched the second pinned post (the one with over 2k views) and I think you should probably include a bit more of prelude content before heading straight into the marketing part of the video. This will draw people into the video more firstly.
Thank you so much for taking the time to go through my page and analyse my most viewed video. I really appreciate it. So in that video, I combined 2 hooks at the beginning of the video effictively making the hook about 5 sec. Do you think that this is the biggest factor in the relative success of that video? I would be grateful if you tell me your opinion on that.