The ability to manually build a followimg is actually more important for a new channel, and falls off once there are just shitloads of people liking your stuff.
TikTok seems to test new videos on your followers first and then when they watch and like the video, it'll branch out further. Well, you can get followers simply by seeing who just liked your video, then if they make videos (and aren't chuds) you like one of their videos and follow them. They'll remember you, follow you back, and start getting recommended your videos. Now you have a bunch of people who have a vaguely good opinion of you and they're seeing your videos, which boosts them to non-followers, who like your video and you repeat the cycle.
They also just comment so much more, like seriously TikTok users are 50 times more likely to comment and 100 times more likely to comment something coherent and positive. Those comments juice the watch time too
And you can literally just DM people your videos. If the videos don't suck they practically never mind, and actually enjoy seeing hand picked videos. They are more patient with videos that are being directly recommended to them, knowing there's probably payoff.
The effort behind YouTube Shorts feels like one step up from Google Plus
The ability to manually build a followimg is actually more important for a new channel, and falls off once there are just shitloads of people liking your stuff.
TikTok seems to test new videos on your followers first and then when they watch and like the video, it'll branch out further. Well, you can get followers simply by seeing who just liked your video, then if they make videos (and aren't chuds) you like one of their videos and follow them. They'll remember you, follow you back, and start getting recommended your videos. Now you have a bunch of people who have a vaguely good opinion of you and they're seeing your videos, which boosts them to non-followers, who like your video and you repeat the cycle.
They also just comment so much more, like seriously TikTok users are 50 times more likely to comment and 100 times more likely to comment something coherent and positive. Those comments juice the watch time too
And you can literally just DM people your videos. If the videos don't suck they practically never mind, and actually enjoy seeing hand picked videos. They are more patient with videos that are being directly recommended to them, knowing there's probably payoff.
The effort behind YouTube Shorts feels like one step up from Google Plus