At this point , we had a few viral videos under our belt. Our account was getting a healthy amount of features, and I was freaking out a little. I worked full time at Trader Joe’s on top of my “career” as an actor, so I had very little time to actually film or ruminate on videos. My NOTES PAD in my phone became my best friend, and I was nearly written up a few times as I scrawled ideas in my phone between the aisles. Oddly enough, this was one of the most creative periods of my life. It’s freeing to “create” on social media. There’s no one telling you how to do it, no one governing your actions, you can literally do whatever you want (for better or for worse). I had finally started to understand how to bend “trends” to my account, or fit them into the noodle world I was creating. You’ll notice you STILL couldn’t do text within the app. haha. I wasted so much paper.
OOPS…
02/06/19
Sometimes accidents are happy (for me). Dropping my phone on my dog in slow-mo made an easy video for us.
Using Features…
02/06/19
One thing that NEVER worked for me, was interacting with other “big” users (some people love this mode). This is what they beg you to do, maybe I was not doing it right? I don’t know. None of my duets, or interactions ever really garnered that much acclaim, aside from vladimir’s barf reaction videos many years later.
Using pop Culture?
02/07/19
BIG PROBLEM HERE, my “pop” culture as an ELDER MILLENIAL was not sticking with Tiktok.
BACK TO SNUGGLES
02/07/19
Still experimenting. Audios. Colors. Speeds.
DOING SUGGESTIONS
02/07/19
One thing that DID work for me was taking people’s suggestions and making them into reality. A lot of times, people in the comments have damn good ideas…. and now you can respond DIRECTLY to them. So easy.
Give the people what (you think) they want.
There’s a lot of pressure to keep posting after you get some push. You don’t want to let people down, you want to ride the wave. ONLY ADVICE I can give here is to be kind on yourself, and really think about what you want to be doing (cause ou’’re gonna be doing a LOT of it)
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