Finally cracked 100 followers on my cooking tip channel after 8 months of posting

Turned out the secret was just filming vertical instead of horizontal and keeping every video under 30 seconds. Anyone else hit a weird milestone that took way less effort than you thought?

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nancy_king299d agoOG Member

Wait, so your vertical vids just took off like that? That's wild, I spent months overthinking lighting and angles for my baking posts, then one time I accidentally posted a blurry shot of a burnt cookie and it got like 500 likes. @jordan_hill that potato plant story is hilarious, reminds me of my friend who made a random cat video and woke up to 10k views.

jordan_hill9d ago

My buddy from work started a little gardening account on a whim last year. She posted like five blurry photos of her tomato plants and just left it alone for months. Then one random Tuesday she checked and somehow had over 2,000 followers with zero effort on her part. Turns out a big account shared her stuff without telling her. She still has no idea how to make it happen again and just laughs about it now.

kimw579d ago

That "random Tuesday" part cracks me up, because honestly that's how the algorithm works half the time. My cousin had a similar thing with her sourdough starter photo - just a blurry jar on a counter, no hashtags, nothing. She still jokes that junk food photography is her "real" art now compared to the overthought stuff.