It meant that only the bots had watched it. The "Kickstart Theory" had failed. The algorithm hadn't picked up the momentum; it had detected a surge of traffic from IP addresses in data centers and quietly quarantined the video. It was flagged as 'low quality engagement' and shown to no one else.
He would spend four hours editing a thirty-second skit about the trials of dating in the digital age. He’d post it, watch the view count tick up to 150, and then… silence. No likes. No comments. Just the crushing realization that he was shouting into a void. tiktok likes bots