Showerthought: a commenter with 12 followers told me to stop making my viral video edits, and he was right
Back in 2022 I had a clip hit 400k views on TikTok and spent three months chasing that high with quick cuts and zoom ins. A guy named Marcus who ran a tiny account out of Akron left a comment saying the edits were hiding the fact that I had nothing to say, and my views dropped to under 3k per post while I ignored him. I finally posted one raw, unedited video in January about how I wasted that whole year, and it did better than anything since the original. Now I'm wondering how many other people got real advice from a no-name commenter and just brushed it off.